During the middle of World War II, teenage physics major Roy Glauber found himself plucked out of college on the East Coast and assigned to work at a mysterious new government research center in the ...

Some of J. Robert Oppenheimer's influence on Oak Ridge is visible today and some is invisible. One of the most famous images of Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who oversaw the production of the ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

Guardsman with 420th Chemical Battalion, 96th Troop Command, Washington National Guard, traveled to the past to learn for the future during a tour of the Hanford Nuclear Site, part of the Manhattan ...

At the “town hall” presidential debate last week, moderator Tom Brokaw asked if, in the interest of coming up with alternative forms of energy, we should “fund a Manhattan-like Project . . . or ...

The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...