OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — A building at Y-12 that helped create the first atomic bombs is being demolished. Building 9201-2, also known as Alpha-2, is a 2.5-acre structure was built in 1944 to ...

Led by Enrico Fermi, one of many scientists who had fled fascism in Europe, they worked day and night to build the world’s first nuclear reactor—a 20-foot-tall structure of graphite ... the first test ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress ...