On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ...

"The exploration of how key government officials were unaware of the implications of developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, leaving the lives of millions of Americans in the hands of a ...

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through censorship and co-opting of the press.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...

Big science and the bomb -- Long before the bomb: the origins of big science -- Science, the military and industry: the great war and after -- From fission to mission: the origins of the Manhattan ...

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...