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

There was more to the Manhattan Project than just creating an atomic bomb. There was also the effort to spin the story ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Heritage Foundation wants a “Manhattan Project for the nuclear family” to boost marriage and birth rates. Its draft proposals ...

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully ...

"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 ...

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...

The nuclear fallout had spread for hours when news of it finally reached Carl Bailey. The North Dakota native and future Concordia College professor was passing his afternoon in a New Mexico lab. He ...

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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” Marx’s aphorism feels newly prescient. Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a jingoistic call on social media for a “new Manhattan ...