Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion ... for the design and construction of the bomb was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The cost of these Manhattan Project installations was $2 billion.

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the ... during the scene of the world’s first atomic bomb test. “That scene alone was terrifying ...

2, 1942, a group of 49 scientists gathered to conduct the criticality test. According to those who were there ... becoming the nation’s first national lab—Argonne National Laboratory. In order to ...

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

Those bombs were developed as part of the Manhattan Project atomic weapons program ... the 75th anniversary of the first ever explosive test of a nuclear bomb, code-named Trinity.

Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias. Follow BI Video ...

This historical park encompasses three separate sites that were involved in the top-secret development of the atomic bomb during World War II. It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing ... In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes describes Kitty Oppenheimer as a ...

The arrest of Klaus Fuchs for espionage in 1950 was a news sensation. The renowned physicist had spent years at the very heart of Britain and the United States’ nuclear programmes. But unbeknown to ...

(JTA) — Abraham Zarem was 28 when he joined the Manhattan Project, the vast U.S. government effort to develop the atom bomb. Engineers ... States Naval Ordnance Test Station at Pasadena, where ...