| 单词 | Manhattan Project |
| 例句 | The general in charge of the Manhattan Project was Leslie Groves, and he scoured the country, trying to find the right person to lead the atomic-bomb effort. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Now, after years of agonizing frustration, Fitin could boast of having a physicist not just inside the Manhattan Project, but inside Los Alamos itself. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Between Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other secret labs around the country, the Manhattan Project was employing more than 300,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the cost of experimental equipment had always been secondary to the goal of the research, especially during the war, when the urgency of the Manhattan Project made profit-and-loss calculations irrelevant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “In this cable were data and theories that seemed to have come directly from inside the Manhattan Project,” Lamphere explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The episode was a reminder for Bush and Conant that if they did not begin outlining a postwar research program within the Manhattan Project, its members would start taking matters into their own hands. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z K. Fuchs, Lamphere learned, was Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist who joined the Manhattan Project with a team from Great Britain. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Like they did with the Manhattan Project. When they were creating the atomic bomb.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The Soviets would never know—not until the KGB could get a scientist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, whenever Groves made plans to slim down the Manhattan Project’s lab network, he left the Rad Lab alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Army to take over the atomic bomb project—code named the Manhattan Project, because its first offices were located in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z By the end of the war, Groves calculated, its construction, engineering, and electricity would cost more than a half billion dollars, making it the single most expensive component of the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nowhere was the awe-inspiring scale of the Manhattan Project—in spending, in manpower, in physical size—as evident as at Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner—the ones who’d triggered the Manhattan Project by convincing Albert Einstein to warn President Roosevelt of the danger of atomic bombs—came to watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1944, Los Alamos was just one small part of the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves was promoted to general and took command of the Manhattan Project on September 18, 1942. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Present at the Alamogordo test range would be almost every high-level official of the Manhattan Project, from General Groves down. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, inspect the test site after the blast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On July 5, Oppenheimer sent a telegram to top Manhattan Project physicists in Berkeley and Chicago: “Any time after the fifteenth would be a good time for our fishing trip.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He described as much as he knew about the organization of the Manhattan Project, saying he’d heard that the bomb design was happening at a secret site somewhere in New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer couldn’t work on the Manhattan Project until he got security clearance from the army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Just two years before, Stimson had decided Truman wasn’t important enough to know about the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rabi, a Nobel laureate and veteran of the MIT Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Citing Oppie’s habit of dabbling in politics, the Manhattan Project’s security apparatus, which was not yet entirely under Groves’s control, refused to clear him for war work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The story of Oppenheimer’s appointment to be scientific director of the Manhattan Project twenty years later is perhaps an even better example of this difference. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The terrifying thought that Adolf Hitler might beat the Allies to exploitation of the atom’s destructive capacity had prompted many eminent scientists, including numerous refugees from Nazi Germany, to participate willingly in the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Finally, they had a high- level physicist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In Moscow, KGB officers were intensely frustrated by how little they’d uncovered about the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have broken the atom secret with our Manhattan Project. We beat the Nazis. Your mission is scrubbed.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had moved to Berkeley in the 1940s, briefly joining scientists to separate and purify isotopes for the Manhattan Project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As Oppenheimer acknowledged, he should have reported the approach promptly to Manhattan Project security officials. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Jennet Conant is the acclaimed author of four previous books about World War II, including two best-selling volumes on Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Unlike the channel's fledgling original series, "Salem," the title of the new series does not refer to the show's setting, but rather the subject: the Manhattan Project. WGN America sets premiere date for 'Manhattan' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “This was like the Manhattan Project of music,” one interviewee says of the group, which was founded in 2000. Review: ‘The Music of Strangers,’ on Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z And beating the Chinese in the quantum computer race is “like completing the Manhattan Project and catching the Rosenbergs, all at once.” Review | For the inside dope on how the CIA works, ‘The Quantum Spy’ can’t be beat 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Levittown’s original inspiration is the planned community created in secret at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to house the technicians and scientists of the “Manhattan Project” busily engaged in developing the first atomic weapon. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z The series, created by Sam Shaw, looks behind the scenes of the top secret Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic weapons for the United States during World War II. 'CSI' alum William Petersen is joining 'Manhattan' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z A few supersubs made it to sea but, thanks to the Manhattan Project, not in time to have an impact on the war. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z But as the Manhattan Project taught us, it’s also possible to harness incredible power from teensy, tiny things. Is TV Drama Finally Getting Out of Its Murder Rut? 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Or it can be the mass deaths of nuclear Armageddon; the road trippers drive by the Hanford nuclear plant, created as part of the Manhattan Project. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Scientists involved in developing the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project in 1945 — including Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists — created the Doomsday Clock in 1947. Doomsday Clock 2022: What is it and what do the numbers mean? 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Recruited by the Manhattan Project in 1944 at the age of 18, Hall was the youngest scientist working on the development of an atomic bomb and eager to win a race against the Nazis. ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Two weeks ago, on a Sunday, I literally ran out of my six-hour Patient Care Technician shift to watch "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's biopic starring Cilian Murphy as the Manhattan Project scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z As well as calculating rocket trajectories, this "electronic brain" was used by the Manhattan Project scientists to build the atomic bomb. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer - review 2012-05-22T12:30:03Z The Nazis and their enablers tackled the Holocaust with a problem-solving ethos not unlike what we associate with the Manhattan Project or the lunar landing. Television Review: ?Engineering Evil? on History Channel - Review 2011-11-14T23:00:26Z It’s true for J. Robert Oppenheimer as he led the Manhattan Project team developing the atomic bomb. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Presiding over the ceremony was Gen. Leslie Groves, military commander of the Manhattan Project, for which Lawrence provided most of the weapons-grade uranium. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The public does not need to register for Trinity Site, but they do for some areas of the Manhattan Project sites. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z "Manhattan," as in the Manhattan Project — which produced the first atomic bomb — improves on its predecessor. 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Gen. Leslie Groves, in charge of the Manhattan Project, testified to the U.S. Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The exhibit superimposes the clamor of technology on the gentler sounds of nature, reflecting how the Manhattan Project transformed natural elements such as uranium to unleash ghastly violence, says Keiper. One worked on the A-bomb. The other was a victim. How their grandsons now create art together. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The lodge, along with the house where Oppenheimer lived with his wife and kids, are among the buildings managed by the Manhattan Project Historical Park, which arranges occasional tours. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Over There, and Here as Well Ever wonder why was it was called the Manhattan Project? Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z There are scores of books about the Manhattan Project, and so many biographies, documentaries and, of course, archives. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project Beer Company, which takes its name from the nuclear weapons development project during World War II, announced the impending return of its Bikini Atoll beer in March. 'Bikini Atoll' beer from Dallas Brewery upsets Pacific Islanders, Marshall Islands government agencies 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The gallery’s location, at 520 West Twentieth Street, is especially fitting: in the nineteen-forties, the Manhattan Project stored three hundred thousand pounds of uranium in warehouses on the same block. SXSW Live-Streaming, Young Richard Pryor, and Nuclear Fear 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Lelyveld, the former executive editor of The New York Times, reviews Roosevelt’s last 16 months in office, including the Manhattan Project and the culmination of World War II. Paperback Row 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The Great Filter Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunchbreak from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Gen. Leslie Groves, the chief of the Manhattan Project, about the possibility of contamination by radioactive fallout. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Sim also visited the Pacific Northwest, where mountain runoff used to cool a nearby contaminated nuclear reactor during the years of the Manhattan Project. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It was during this time that Fuchs was able to hand over some of the Manhattan Project’s most important and detailed data to another Soviet contact, Harry Gold. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project Historical Park has its visitors center and tour exhibits in Los Alamos. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z "Barbie" first, with a Manhattan Project chaser, or Oppenbarbie, that depends on whether you want to close with a sense of lively optimism or in awe of Nolan's gorgeously grim vision. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z And in 1942 General Leslie Groves, the man tasked by Roosevelt with building an atomic bomb in America, chose him to be the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z In reality, the U.S. government had plenty of reason to be concerned: Despite tight security, the real Manhattan Project was infiltrated by Soviet spies. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The beer, named after Bikini Atoll, was re-released earlier this year by the Manhattan Project Beer Company after first debuting years ago on a much smaller scale. 'Bikini Atoll' beer from Dallas Brewery upsets Pacific Islanders, Marshall Islands government agencies 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Alicia and Bobby share a cursed inheritance; their father was a physicist on the Manhattan Project. Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z And such considerations might have led the show in entirely different directions, perhaps to a different exhibition entirely: another look at the Manhattan Project. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z “This our fungal expert?” asks J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Manhattan Project, making a brief but crucial cameo appearance. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z Some Manhattan Project doctors not only went along with the lie, they did far worse and experimented on human beings. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z "Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project qualify as that." 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In the documentary, Manhattan Project physicists recount wandering the wrecked Japanese city. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The cake, from a recipe by Edith Warner, the Los Alamos teahouse owner who served the physicists during the Manhattan Project, was rather uninspiring. Dance Review: After Science Meets Art, Everyone Gets Some Cake 2011-03-29T21:47:54Z Hanford, of course, is the top-secret nuclear production site affiliated with the Manhattan Project. In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Oak Ridge, the super-secret site of the Manhattan Project in rural Tennessee, was a model of functionalist planning, with shopping malls flanked by repetitive blocks of prefabricated housing. Exhibition Review: Architects in World War II: Construction Amid Destruction 2011-06-01T15:27:34Z There’s more potential in a coda scene in which the Manhattan Project physicists share a bottle of red and mull the moral complexities of their legacy. ‘Atomic,’ a Musical About the Making of the Bomb 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Monk's biography of Wittgenstein was subtitled "the duty of genius" – that description describes, perhaps, what Oppenheimer thought he was fulfilling on the Manhattan Project. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Rotblat overheard the military director of the Manhattan Project, Lieutenant General Richard Groves, say at a wartime dinner party: "You realise of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russkies." Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z And maybe it would even help push The Manhattan Project through budgetary approvals. Is it cancer?: My paranoid health scares 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z My father soon became a part of the Manhattan Project in Chicago where he was a graduate student in Chemistry. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z This illuminating new exhibition, “WWII & NYC,” even makes it seem plausible that the waging of the entire war was a kind of Manhattan Project, at least in part. Exhibition Review: ‘WWII & NYC,’ at the New-York Historical Society 2012-10-04T23:36:35Z For much of the narrative, he relied on the memoirs and other written accounts of those involved in the Manhattan Project. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z They dissolved the company in 1988 when Brown founded his own production company, The Manhattan Project Ltd. 2010-02-02T15:01:00Z So wrote a member of the Manhattan Project’s Medical Group on July 16, 1945, after watching the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon, in the New Mexican desert, known as the Trinity Test. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sondheim’s Letters to a Brontë Discovery 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z That, of course, led to the Manhattan Project, and the best parts of “The Bomb” are the recollections of people who were part of it. ‘The Bomb’ Helps Return Nukes to the TV Spotlight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Through chance and comedic circumstances, Allan was embroiled in the Spanish Civil War, the Manhattan Project and other pivotal moments of the 20th century. On the lam with 'The 100-Year-Old Man' 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z During the Manhattan Project, it served as a dining and entertainment center for scientists. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Just as the WE channel is an unlikely home for the legal thriller “The Divide,” WGN is not the first place people would turn to for a drama about the Manhattan Project. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z He started his long and productive life as chemist, working during World War II on the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project. Books for Art Lovers 2012-11-22T20:15:43Z Why are we allowing "deniers" to thwart a 21st-century Manhattan Project of American ingenuity, to develop far less poisonous new alternative energies. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Yet despite the ubiquity of this language, and the still-present possibility of nuclear warfare, the story of the Manhattan Project is one that is rarely, if ever, widely shared. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “The leaders of the Manhattan Project,” Olson concludes, “did not devote much thought to the mess they were creating.” In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer” is Nolan’s prestige movie based on “American Prometheus,” a biography of Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project, which during World War II produced the first atomic bombs. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, was written into the first episode -- and the character will return as the season progresses. 'Manhattan' creators stress WGN America drama isn't a series of facts 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z One bombmaker with a conscience was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II, which created the first atom bomb. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z Appointed to lead the scientific work of the Manhattan Project in 1942, Oppenheimer was considered a bizarre choice. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z We need a Manhattan Project for renewable energy. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z "The Manhattan Project: Exploring Opportunities for a New National Park" WED National Parks Conservation Association hosts journalist William Dietrich on the possibilities of creating national park units around the Manhattan Project, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-15T23:01:04Z Written and directed by Nolan, the film borrows liberally from the book as it surveys Oppenheimer’s life, including his role as the director of the Manhattan Engineer District, better known as the Manhattan Project. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z One Army engineer, Roger Rasmussen, speaking to the Voices of the Manhattan Project, remembered the light coming through his closed eyelids. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Down the road from their home in the desert was the Los Alamos National Lab, the birthplace of the Manhattan Project, and Heyman’s best friend’s step-father was an acclaimed chemist. Science and sex cults: rocketeer Jack Parsons hits the small screen 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z He’s been imprisoned on suspicion of being a spy; there’s a security leak in Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project. Ahmed’s clock in Los Alamos: “Manhattan” shows America’s long history of alienating its most brilliant minds 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The premiere also explores the departures of a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and a not-very-bright lawyer who worked on the 24th floor of a glass tower in Toronto. | 'Curious & Unusual Deaths': ?Curious & Unusual Deaths? on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-02-16T22:55:02Z Manhattan Project: Beyond the Bomb This new special recalls the lives of the families of Los Alamos, N.M., and the scientists who developed the first atom bombs. Friday's TV Highlights: 'A Capitol Fourth' on PBS 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It documents the Manhattan Project and the nuclear tests that took place there in a chillingly matter-of-fact way. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” the retelling of the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, was a summer box office smash. ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare likely to fuel record attendance at New Mexico’s Trinity atomic bomb test site 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z "They do not exist in areas where there are no deer. I think this should be the Manhattan Project for tick-borne diseases." Racing to defuse a 'ticking' public health time bomb 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z His latest is about John von Neumann, the Hungarian polymath whose work on the Manhattan Project led to breakthroughs in quantum physics that are still unfolding today. 10 books to add to your reading list in October 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The layers of security are more sophisticated than those from the Manhattan Project era, when all incoming and outgoing mail was censored and telephone calls were monitored. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps in the 18th century an individualist account of science might have seemed plausible, but by the time of the Cold War, after the Manhattan Project, it was clearly absurd. How liberalism sabotaged itself: Are Cold War intellectuals to blame? 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium has worked with the Union of Concerned Scientists and others for years to bring attention to the Manhattan Project’s impact. ‘Oppenheimer’ fanfare likely to fuel record attendance at New Mexico’s Trinity atomic bomb test site 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Over the past few weeks we’ve been bringing you a series of stories about women who worked on the Manhattan Project. She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, But Someone Else Got the Nobel Prize for the Discovery 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer ran the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II, managing a team of the smartest physicists he could recruit. Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity's era of catastrophic change 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Still, many parts — including historic sites related to the Manhattan Project — remain off limits. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Phillips didn't work on the Manhattan Project, but she suggested they talk to Naomi Livesey French, a mathematician whom by the way you heard about a few weeks ago in a previous episode. They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That None of Us Would Forget 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Hafner: So she, when you say she went to a lot of different sites, different Manhattan Project sites? Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z This is Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, a special series of Lost Women of Science focusing on the female scientists and their contributions to the building of the first atomic bomb. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project not only gave the world nuclear war, it pushed Indigenous and Latino people out of their homes and ruined the land and water. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Across the street, rangers at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park visitor center answer questions about where scientists lived and where parties and town halls were held. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z The state’s place in American history as a testing ground has gotten more attention recently with the release of “Oppenheimer,” a movie about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret Manhattan Project. Biden wants to compensate New Mexico residents sickened by radiation during 1945 nuclear testing 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Hafner: This has been Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, a special series from Lost Women of Science. Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project scooped up many of these spouses though it’s impossible to put a number on just how many. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Shapland’s book is the film “Oppenheimer” should have been, one that reflects on the Manhattan Project’s lasting impact on the world community. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Modern health and safety requirements mean new constraints Manhattan Project bosses never had to contemplate. Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z A physicist with the Manhattan Project, David H. Frisch, remembered that U.S. military strategists were eager "to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective but also technically measurable." Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings "nuclear tests"? The U.S. government said so 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z “A Compassionate Spy” is about Ted Hall, a brilliant physicist who was the youngest person — at age 18 — to work on the Manhattan Project. Reviews: An alternate WWII sci-fi drama, a spy doc and the best movies to stream this week 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Lilli – and many others working on the Manhattan Project – had been in favor of building a bomb to stop the Nazis, especially if the Germans were working on one as well. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z In Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” the military asks the architect of the Manhattan Project what he’ll do with Los Alamos now that the bombs have been dropped. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Shimoda adds that the scale of “Oppenheimer” is significant because for many Americans, it will be “their first, maybe only” exposure to the history of the Manhattan Project, the Trinity test and its aftermath. Critics say omitting the Japanese toll makes 'Oppenheimer' 'morally half-formed' 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z This is Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, a special series of Lost Women of Science focusing on a few of those women. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z ‘Oppenheimer’ is right about some aspects of the Manhattan Project, wrong about others, and skates over aspects that you might find interesting. Warner Bros. is sorry for supporting 'insensitive' ‘Barbenheimer’ memes as #NoBarbenheimer trends in Japan 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Hafner: A special shout-out to the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory for helping us tell the stories of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project. She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The film tells the story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was tasked to lead the top-secret Manhattan Project, culminating in the first deployment of an atomic bomb in 1945. Bidens enjoy ‘Oppenheimer,’ while special counsel files indictment on Trump 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z As depicted by Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh, he is a living legend, looming large both over the film's depiction of the Manhattan Project and over the psyche of the titular protagonist himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Katie Hafner: And it may not be too much of an exaggeration to say that that decision, made over the course of this intensely complicated enterprise, was crucial to the success of the Manhattan Project. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z And while the movie portrays the Manhattan Project’s Trinity testing site in south-central New Mexico as remote, the land was inhabited by Hispanic and Native American ranchers and homesteaders. Warner Bros. is sorry for supporting 'insensitive' ‘Barbenheimer’ memes as #NoBarbenheimer trends in Japan 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The Bidens after a quick dinner at Matt’s Fish Camp in nearby Lewes went to an early evening showing of the three-hour movie about the life of Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer. Bidens head to summer blockbuster ‘Oppenheimer’ during beach vacation 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project Oppenheimer directed was one of the largest public works efforts ever undertaken in American history. Profiteers of armageddon: Oppenheimer and the birth of the nuclear-industrial complex 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet very much like Oppenheimer before him, Bohr never joined the Manhattan Project with the idea that he was playing the role of a future villain. Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z This has been Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, a special series from Lost Women of Science. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z That includes the 1996 film “Infinity,” about a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, which was led by Mr. Oppenheimer and gave birth to atomic weapons. Anger Over ‘Barbenheimer’ in Nuclear-Scarred Japan 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The most glaring historical gaffe is the film’s perpetuation of the myth that Oppenheimer was the boss of the Manhattan Project; it shows him assuring Gen. Leslie R. Groves that he can run the project. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “Ukraine needs a Manhattan Project for mine clearing,” he said, referring to the program employed by the United States during World War II to build an atomic bomb. Extensive Minefields Impede Ukraine’s Counteroffensive, Military Analysts Say. 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Then again, also like Oppenheimer, Bohr's legacy is also colored because of his involvement in the Manhattan Project — and, by extension, all of the horrors wrought by the birth of nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z A special shout-out to the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory for helping us tell the stories of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The shy but steely scientist is credited with discovering the neutron, before going on to lead the British contingent in the Manhattan Project, that was set up to build the atomic bomb. James Chadwick: The Brit chief who worked on the nuclear bomb 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z In fact, it had been raised very briefly in 1942 and promptly put to rest by Manhattan Project physicist Hans Bethe, who later called it “absolute nonsense.” Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The U.S. government built Hanford and other complexes in the 1940s to produce plutonium and uranium for atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project. US says largest solar project could be built on Energy Dept land 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Just as the film "Oppenheimer" is cagey about the exact nature of Bohr's role in the Manhattan Project, historians in real life aren't entirely clear on what exactly Bohr did at Los Alamos. Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb" 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z They filmed inside historic buildings, based a number of characters on the real scientists of the Manhattan Project, and used dialogue that came directly from a U.S. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The people of New Mexico were the first victims of the atomic bomb, the result of the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. The historic MVP race between Cuban Twins and their unidentical baseball careers 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But his subsequent sotto voce remark, to the effect that he probably wouldn’t give any of the Manhattan Project scientists clearance under those rules, doesn’t appear anywhere in the 1,011-page hearing transcript. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Along with his colleagues, Oppenheimer was tasked with developing the world’s first nuclear weapons under the code name the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer Offers Us a Fresh Warning of AI’s Danger 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Scouting locations took the team throughout the western U.S. and finally back to northern New Mexico, where the Army’s real top-secret Manhattan Project was located at Los Alamos National Laboratory. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z In the film, both the test site and the Los Alamos Laboratory in Northern New Mexico are remote, unpopulated areas — a depiction that’s largely in line with most historical accounts of the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by Hispanos and Native Americans 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z My view is that the Manhattan Project was understandable and defensible given the wartime context. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z This special series about women who worked on The Manhattan Project is different from what we usually do. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Agents swarmed everywhere, lurking just beyond the fences of the Manhattan Project sites, when Ellen Bradbury Reid’s father moved his family from Tennessee to work alongside Oppenheimer at Los Alamos. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The original Trinity site is still an operational Army base, about 260 miles from Los Alamos, where the top-secret Manhattan Project was based. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The residents who remained in the surrounding area were given no warning about the Trinity Test, with Manhattan Project leader Gen. Leslie R. Groves insisting that anything surrounding the operations remain a closely guarded secret. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by Hispanos and Native Americans 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z This includes consequences that ensued as a direct result of the Manhattan Project. Atomic truth: Unraveling the reality behind "Oppenheimer" and nuclear weapons 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z At its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people across several major sites. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z While movies and biographies spotlight Oppenheimer, thousands of others toiled in obscurity in the Manhattan Project, even as their contributions altered the trajectory of history. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Nolan had only basic knowledge of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project when he began working on the screenplay for the movie. How does ‘Oppenheimer’ re-create history? We asked Christopher Nolan. 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “All we wanted was a panel at the end of the movie to acknowledge the sacrifice and suffering of the people of New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project,” she said. Oppenheimer's test site wasn't remote. It was populated by Hispanos and Native Americans 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Fortunately for fans of both, "Oppenheimer" delivers in telling the truth about the story of the Manhattan Project, at least as much as can be expected of a Hollywood blockbuster. Atomic truth: Unraveling the reality behind "Oppenheimer" and nuclear weapons 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z As the head of the Manhattan Project’s medical team put it, “The chief concern of the health group was the interpretation of repeated blood counts on exposed personnel.” This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Inside Hanford and Los Alamos, the science hub of the Manhattan Project, secrets were currency and paranoia reigned. The untold story of the Manhattan Eight: FBI’s secret spying on Hanford women 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Today, when building a new overpass can take years, the pace of the Manhattan Project can seem miraculous. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Thousands of scientists, including theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, took part in the Manhattan Project, often while they and their families were lodged at secret military bases in remote locations. What Was the Manhattan Project? 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Manhattan Project, the World War II–era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs. Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Because of the highly classified nature of the Manhattan Project, Aggie had no idea who Fermi was when he came to Los Alamos. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z A new study, released on Thursday ahead of submission to a scientific journal for peer review, shows that the cloud and its fallout went farther than anyone in the Manhattan Project had imagined in 1945. Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z When politicians call for a “new Manhattan Project” to address a pressing national need, it’s often the speed of the project that they wish to emulate. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Army Corps of Engineers created the Manhattan Engineer District in June 1942 to hide the development of the atomic bomb during the war—hence that effort’s name of the “Manhattan Project.” What Was the Manhattan Project? 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z As it turned out, that pivot at an early age, from a dream of flying airplanes to the Manhattan Project, came to define the rest of her life. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The drift of the Trinity cloud was monitored by Manhattan Project physicists and doctors, but they underestimated its reach. Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Moviemakers inevitably have to simplify complex narratives, and “Oppenheimer” is by far the best feature film ever made about the Manhattan Project. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z After 1942 the Manhattan Project was the recognized Allied effort to build an atomic bomb. What Was the Manhattan Project? 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Through their work on the Manhattan Project and beyond, they left legacies of technical achievement, scientific curiosity, and discovery. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z This book covers people and events from early 20th century discoveries leading to the creation of nuclear chain reactions, through the Manhattan Project and the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Gen. Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project, that the Trinity cloud “remained towering over the northeast corner of the site for several hours.” Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Today, Hanford is one of three sites — along with Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamos — in the recently created Manhattan Project National Historical Park. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945—the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. What Was the Manhattan Project? 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Over the next few weeks, we're bringing you Lost Women of the Manhattan Project. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z This blog post from the Los Alamos History Museum provides scans and a transcript of Manhattan Project physicist Phil Morrison’s official letter reporting on the Slotin accident. This Lost Woman of the Manhattan Project Saw the Deadly Effects of Nuclear Radiation Up Close 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z And “Oppenheimer” is consumed with not just the ethical quandary of the Manhattan Project but every ethical quandary that Oppenheimer encounters. Movie Review: A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z When filmmakers dramatize the World War II-era Manhattan Project, they tend to focus on the physicists who gathered in New Mexico to design and build the world’s first atomic bombs. 'Oppenheimer' and what it misses about Hanford | Op-Ed 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Although Japan never had an atomic bomb program, the idea of stopping its aggression with a show of awful destruction became fixed among Manhattan Project leaders, science historian Wellerstein says. What Was the Manhattan Project? 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z They eventually divorced, and in 1966, she married Willard Libby, a fellow scientist who had worked with her on the Manhattan Project. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z An unrecognizable Downey brings his trademark naturalness to Strauss’s struggles, and Matt Damon clicks beautifully with Murphy as no-nonsense general Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. ‘Oppenheimer’ review: A haunting portrait of a man who changed the world 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The movie on the life of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret work of the Manhattan Project sheds no light on those residents’ pain. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The Biden administration has reversed a 1954 decision to revoke the security clearance of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer’s big screen odyssey: The man, the book and the film’s 50-year journey 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Meitner doesn’t appear as a character in the film, as she was not part of the Manhattan Project, but we hope the script alludes to her groundbreaking work. Female Physicists Aren’t Represented in the Media—And This Lack of Representation Hurts the Field 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z An invaluable chronicle of the lives and work of scores of women who contributed to the Manhattan Project as chemists, physicists, mathematicians,technicians, and more. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer tells the story of J Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic Manhattan Project scientist, who had a leading role in developing the atomic bomb that made him a "destroyer of worlds". Christopher Nolan: After Oppenheimer, no more films during strike action 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Cordova’s group, the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, has been working with the Union of Concerned Scientists and others for years to bring attention to what the Manhattan Project did to people in New Mexico. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z "That's a movie about the man who helped create the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb," he says. Barbie movie: How the marketing campaign has got everyone talking 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z But while the Manhattan Project wouldn’t have been possible without the work of many accomplished female scientists, the only women seen in the movie’s trailer are either hanging laundry, crying or cheering the men on. Female Physicists Aren’t Represented in the Media—And This Lack of Representation Hurts the Field 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z An autobiographical account of Libby’s time on the Manhattan Project. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer headed the secret Los Alamos Laboratory, established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan returns with latest blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The legacy of Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project means Los Alamos is home to one of the nation’s premier national laboratories and has the highest percentage of people with doctorate degrees in the U.S. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Adjusted for inflation, its price is about the same as that of the Manhattan Project, which made the first atomic bombs—and is almost certain to get larger. World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project would not have been possible without the work of physicist Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission. Female Physicists Aren’t Represented in the Media—And This Lack of Representation Hurts the Field 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z During World War II, thousands of scientists and engineers worked on the Manhattan Project, developing the first nuclear weapons. What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Their first idea to look for neutrinos was to take advantage of the nuclear weapons testing being done during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, right? The Weirdest Particles in the Universe 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Scientists started working on creating fusion reactions in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project. Why Nuclear Fusion Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z “Before the Manhattan Project, there was a handshake agreement that this area would be returned to the way it was,” said Trina Sherwood, a cultural specialist in the tribe’s natural resources department. A Poisonous Cold War Legacy That Defies a Solution 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project, a secret military operation housed in a former boarding school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, succeeded in creating and then detonating an atomic bomb on July 16. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Truman had known little about the Manhattan Project before becoming president and now relied on the advice of his experts. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z It may be inauspicious to compare AI safety technology with the rapid nuclear weaponization of the Manhattan Project. Why we need a "Manhattan Project" for A.I. safety 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Christopher Fryer, head of Los Alamos’s Center for Nonlinear Studies, has found that the weapons codes still contain computational tricks conjured up decades ago by Manhattan Project luminaries such as Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman. Trust but verify: Can the U.S. certify new nuclear weapons without detonating them? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Most famously, a planning meeting for the Manhattan Project in 1942 held at the Grove later led to the development of the atomic bomb. Clarence Thomas and Bohemian Grove: What goes on at the all-male club? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Later, as Mr. Altman sipped a sweet wine in lieu of dessert, he compared his company to the Manhattan Project. The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The desire to justify the expense of the Manhattan Project also likely influenced him. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The San Francisco Project could end of the century of existential risk that began when the Manhattan Project first made us capable of self-annihilation. Why we need a "Manhattan Project" for A.I. safety 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z When Oppenheimer left Berkeley in 1942 to lead the Manhattan Project, he brought many of his students along; Wu, despite her acclaim, was not invited. The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The 19th-century transcontinental railroad; the Manhattan Project, which developed the nuclear weapons that ended World War II; and the 1960s Apollo space program are examples. Biden scraps reliance on market for faith in broader government role 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z At one point during our dinner in 2019, he paraphrased Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project, who believed the atomic bomb was an inevitability of scientific progress. The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Not least was the Manhattan Project’s work on atomic energy, which led to the construction of the first nuclear weapons. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z It was a recognition that a lot of military-relevant technology, most notably the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, relied on experts outside of the military, he said. A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Not long after, the Manhattan Project finally recruited her, and she played a quiet, conflicted and crucial role in the development of the atomic bomb. The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The clock was created in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists, including Albert Einstein, who had worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first nuclear weapons during World War Two. 'Doomsday Clock' moves to 90 seconds to midnight as nuclear threat rises 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer was one of the leading members of the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Film lookahead: 23 highlights to look out for in 2023 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z In August 1942, the U.S. government boosted this effort with its top-secret Manhattan Project. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mr. DeRoulac is passionate about the need for this work: “We need a Manhattan Project for the environment here in the West,” he said, “like a huge infrastructure development bill for restoration.” In Utah, Restoring Spruce Forests One Cone at a Time 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z We learn their father and mother both worked on the Manhattan Project, Dad as one of the scientists with Oppenheimer as they watched the first mushroom cloud fill the sky in the New Mexico desert. Cormac McCarthy returns with cryptic ‘The Passenger’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The ninth reactor, B Reactor, will remain unsealed and open for tours as part of the Manhattan Project Historical National Park. Plutonium reactor in Eastern WA encased in steel to protect river 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Nuclear waste from World War II weapons production as part of the Manhattan Project contaminated Coldwater Creek. Radioactive waste finding raises worries at Missouri school 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z For example, top German scientists had fled Germany, and some were assisting the Manhattan Project. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Before the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. plan that produced the first nuclear weapons, Richland was a village of about 250 people who had settled to farm next to the Columbia River. A Proud Nuclear Town Grapples With How to Remember the Bomb 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z "I'd equate this with the Manhattan Project in World War Two," said manufacturing expert Michael Tracy of The Agile Group, referring to the sweeping effort by the United States to build an atomic bomb. Analysis: Musk's bold goal of selling 20 million EVs could cost Tesla billions 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The top secret Manhattan Project was a crash program aimed at beating the Germans. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Truman, who had not known about the Manhattan Project until Roosevelt’s death, also may not have realized how truly destructive it was. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Eventually, in July 1945, the Manhattan Project bore fruit, and a bomb was successfully detonated in the Trinity Test at Alamogordo, New Mexico. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z But with the Manhattan Project demonstrating success, President Harry Truman instead chose to deploy the nation’s new nuclear weapon. A Proud Nuclear Town Grapples With How to Remember the Bomb 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Weapons-grade uranium refined in St. Louis as part of the Manhattan Project, the World War II-era program that produced the first nuclear weapons, was illegally dumped at the adjacent West Lake Landfill in 1973. Landfill odor: Health problems, but no elevated cancer risk 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Plutonium was recognized as easier to fission with neutrons and, hence, a superior fission material very early in the Manhattan Project. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z In late 1941, the program received its code name: the Manhattan Project. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Tours of the Hanford B Reactor, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, have been canceled until the CDC rating drops. New CDC rating for COVID in Tri-Cities means thousands of workers in WA must wear masks 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z When a reported 7,000 African Americans from the Deep South were recruited to work on the Manhattan Project starting in 1942, they knew little except that the positions were well-paid. A Secret City With a Secret African American History 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The Department of Energy is resuming free public tours of the historic B Reactor, part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park at the Hanford site near Richland in Central Washington. Public tours resume at historic Central WA nuclear reactor, where the atomic age began 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z He has a PhD, and he worked on the Manhattan Project, but when it comes to computers, he’s a newbie. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Netherworld 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z During World War II, Los Alamos was the site of Project Y, one of several arms of the Manhattan Project. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2, Episode Two: Women Needed 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Weapons-grade uranium was refined at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis as part of the Manhattan Project, the World War II-era program that produced the first nuclear weapons. Landfill cleanup slowed after more nuclear waste found 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Gipson, 81, moved from his home in Lexington, Miss., to Oak Ridge in 1950 to live with his uncle, a janitor for the Manhattan Project. A Secret City With a Secret African American History 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z “Visitors will have the opportunity to learn from docents at the reactor and to spend time on their own as they ponder the questions raised by the Manhattan Project and its profound impacts,” French said. Public tours resume at historic Central WA nuclear reactor, where the atomic age began 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Their secret work was given the code name the Manhattan Project. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt responded by giving his approval for an American program, later code-named the Manhattan Project, to develop an atomic bomb. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month later, a quarter of a million lives were lost to the technology created by the Manhattan Project: people vaporized, buildings torn to dust, survivors dying in agony weeks or months later. The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Artifacts fill two rooms in her home and several local displays, including newspaper clippings about the 1955 desegregation and a “colored only” bathroom wall sign from a Manhattan Project plant. A Secret City With a Secret African American History 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z When Klaus Fuchs, the German physicist and Soviet spy who stole information about the Manhattan Project, died in East Germany in 1988, no high Soviet official attended his funeral. Opinion | Why threatening Putin with sanctions over Ukraine won’t be enough 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Both Bohr and subsequently Oppenheimer believed that an agreement between the war-time allies based upon the sharing of information, including the existence of the Manhattan Project, could prevent the surfacing of a nuclear-armed world.... "Globalist" is an epithet now — yet some of history's greatest thinkers supported world government 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z The bomb had been developed by the top-secret Manhattan Project, headed by General Leslie Groves and chief scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, Rotblat simply ended his work with the Manhattan Project once he realized what its true purpose was. The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Much like the Scarboro 85, the community’s contributions to the Manhattan Project have frequently been overlooked. A Secret City With a Secret African American History 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The ninth reactor was turned into a museum as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. US government works to ‘cocoon’ old nuclear reactors 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z My grandfather, Jerrold Zacharias, was a well-known atomic physicist at MIT who invented the atomic clock and worked on the Manhattan Project, and also changed the way physics was taught in schools. The Lost Women of Science, Episode 1: The Question Mark 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This would require a Manhattan Project investment scaled up by several orders of magnitude. Opinion | How Best to Save the Planet 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project demonstrates that physicists must wrestle with the tight bonds of our research with national security. The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “It’s a little trickier to imagine a ‘Hidden Figures’ movie about the Manhattan Project,” said Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian and professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. A Secret City With a Secret African American History 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Many physicists who contributed to the Manhattan Project lived to see nuclear proliferation threaten the world. Opinion | Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z And the Defense Science Board says, "We've got a great idea. We must create a Manhattan Project like program to tag, track and locate individual people." How the Afghan war shaped the surveillance state: Annie Jacobsen on what the DOD knows about you 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Dr. Wellerstein found the archives of the Manhattan Project to be rich not only in Mr. Laurence’s writings but also in the cuts, edits and rebuffs of his military editors. How a Star Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z He didn’t make the decision to leave the Manhattan Project lightly, not to mention that the United States presented him with a false dossier alleging that he left to leak information to the Soviets. The Manhattan Project Shows Scientists’ Moral and Ethical Responsibilities 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Colonel Warren was the Manhattan Project’s top physician. The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Hubbard would later disclose that he also played a peripheral role in the historic Manhattan Project. ‘Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard’ explores the random résumé of a creative, eccentric, 20th-century pioneer and LSD proponent 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z The original plan was to detonate the Gadget — the Manhattan Project physicists’ term for the bomb — inside the Jumbo. Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z His exclusive reports on the Manhattan Project, when released after the Hiroshima bombing, helped shape postwar opinion on the bomb and atomic energy. How a Star Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z His father, Ralph Lapp, was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Inmate’s suicide probed; lawyer says meds were discontinued 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z When Black people arrived at the Hanford site outside Richland to work on the Manhattan Project, the secret undertaking to develop an atomic bomb, government and housing policies pushed them into East Pasco. Voting-rights battle in Washington state raises allegations of diluting Latino votes 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z “That’s where the world is going. Like the physicists of the 1940s, we can already effectively create a Manhattan Project. All these tools can be used, so to speak, for peace or for war.” This facial recognition website can turn anyone into a cop — or a stalker 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Everybody who was anybody in physics had worked on the Manhattan Project. Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z In his book, “Now It Can Be Told,” he said the arrangement called for Mr. Laurence to be paid by both the Manhattan Project and The Times. How a Star Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The most obvious example is the Manhattan Project’s development of nuclear weapons. Opinion | The U.S. is quietly mobilizing its economy against China 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It was a key part of the Manhattan Project during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. New Mexico goes to court over slow cleanup at US nuclear lab 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “We need to look at this as a Manhattan Project or an Apollo program,” said Friedrich, invoking the government-led scientific endeavors that developed the atomic bomb and landed men on the moon. COVID-19 bill would scale up ability to spot virus mutations 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Jeffries, a metal scientist whose contributions to the Manhattan Project and whose development of armor-piercing artillery shells helped the Allies win World War II, was granted a posthumous pardon Oct. Here are some of the people Trump has pardoned 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The name seemed fitting, one senior official recalled, because “it was the historic implication that this was to do something never done before … with the same commitment at the national level as the Manhattan Project.” How the ‘deep state’ scientists vilified by Trump helped him deliver an unprecedented achievement 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The scale of the proposed mobilization isn’t another Manhattan Project, but it’s similar. Opinion | The U.S. is quietly mobilizing its economy against China 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Once they got into the White House, he actually refused to loop Truman in on the Manhattan Project. Joe Scarborough on Harry Truman, Donald Trump and what the hell happened to the Republican Party 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Speaking from the Rose Garden, Trump likened the effort to the Manhattan Project, the military’s successful World War II program to engineer and build in secret the world’s first atomic bombs. AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts military role in vaccines 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Manhattan Project in World War II that created the atom bomb. Iran’s president vows revenge over slain military scientist 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z In 2015, the New York Times compared him to J Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who directed the Manhattan Project that during World War Two produced the first atomic weapons. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Iran vows to avenge scientist's assassination 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Although sometimes overlooked in histories of avant-garde theater, the short-lived Manhattan Project was a key player in New York’s early ’70s experimental theater scene. Decades after his famous dinner, the once-restless André Gregory writes of inner peace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z By 1944, investment in the Manhattan Project equaled investment in the prewar automobile industry. Opinion | How covid-19 could make a case against big government 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Government scientists never discounted the potential for radioactive fallout before moving ahead with the Trinity Test, which was the culmination of work done at installations around the country as part of the once-secret Manhattan Project. Reports on Trinity Test fallout, cancer cases to be released 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z During an interview with Piel, Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University fumed about a secret Manhattan Project that was placing heavy orders for his spectroscopic research equipment. How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The meeting was later revealed to be a design confab for the Manhattan Project, the government-led initiative that led to the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb. The Mom and Pop Factory With an Atomic Secret 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z And in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, she asked that Canada apologize for its role in contributing uranium to the Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, first dismissed Japanese reports of lethal radioactive effects as “pure propaganda,” then told a Senate committee that radiation poisoning “is a very pleasant way to die.” Opinion | One of humanity’s remarkable achievements is the absence of the use of a third nuclear weapon 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Years later, the family would come to find out what Jim had been working on all of that time: the Manhattan Project. Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Throughout 1943, penicillin production became the War Department’s No. 2 priority after the Manhattan Project’s drive to build a nuclear bomb. How a miracle drug changed the fight against infection during World War II 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z McConnell said Wednesday the government is “pursuing testing, treatment and vaccines like the country pursued the Manhattan Project in World War II.” Senate Democrats seek aid for Black Americans in virus bill 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The path that led to Trinity had begun some three years earlier with the creation of the Manhattan Project as an Allied effort to produce an atomic weapon. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z McConnell assured Kentuckians on Wednesday, “We are pursuing testing, treatment and vaccines like the country pursued the Manhattan Project in World War II.” Congress eyes new virus aid as school, health crisis deepens 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z McConnell assured Kentuckians on Wednesday, “We are pursuing testing, treatment and vaccines like the country pursued the Manhattan Project in World War II.” Congress eyes new virus aid as school, health crisis deepens 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Los Alamos began as a secret city in the mountains of northern New Mexico where government scientists and the military gathered as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb. US nuclear lab investigates breach at plutonium facility 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z We need a colossal effort, a Manhattan Project, to fight the virus, and we don’t have it. Opinion | Americans sacrificed to flatten the curve. Their leaders have let them down. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z We are able to relive the moment thanks to the recollections of many of those assigned to the Manhattan Project who worked to bring Trinity about and who witnessed the event firsthand. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “That means big and it means fast. A massive scientific, industrial, and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.” Before the pandemic, top contractor received billions from government to help prepare the nation for biowarfare 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Only two weeks after he became an “accidental president,” Truman was briefed on the atomic bomb by Army Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project. Review | Stories of those who built the bomb, those who used it and those who survived it 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Weeks ago, Mr. Trump compared the Warp Speed effort to the Manhattan Project, the government-led program during World War II to develop the atomic bomb. Trump Administration Selects Five Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates as Finalists 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z He compares himself to Tom Dowd, who worked on the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project at 18 years old. 'No downside': Johnny Marr, Best Coast and Jason Isbell on how sobriety improves music 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Working on the Manhattan Project could be justified as part of the effort to defeat Hitler, and especially to keep an atomic bomb out of his hands by beating him to it. Column: 75 years ago today, the Trinity A-Bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It was also an immigrant from Germany who visited FDR’s White House and pushed the wartime president to launch the Manhattan Project. Opinion | I believe in American exceptionalism. That’s what makes this crisis so hard to accept. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Slaoui is set to oversee vaccine development while Perna will serve as the chief operating officer in the endeavor likened by Trump to the Manhattan Project. Army general tasked to help lead race for coronavirus vaccine has history of success with logistics 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z But it destroyed 47 structures, including historic research buildings used during the Manhattan Project. Fire remains burned into New Mexico’s memory 20 years later 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z “That means big and it means fast,” Mr. Trump said, comparing the effort to the Manhattan Project that developed nuclear weapons. Trump pledges coronavirus vaccine by end of year 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “Really, the fastest and most broad-reaching project of its kind since the Manhattan Project,” Conway said, referring to the World War II-era research and development undertaking which produced the first nuclear weapons. Trump announces public-private partnership to develop coronavirus vaccine 'by the end of the year if we can' 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Trump’s idea of a Manhattan Project is apparently to install a Manhattan real estate investor — Jared Kushner — in charge of a group of volunteers prioritizing protective-equipment requests from Fox News personalities. Opinion | If Trump ran the Manhattan Project, we’d all be speaking Japanese 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z The group’s work has been described as a COVID-19 "Manhattan Project," in a nod to the famous effort to develop the atomic bomb. In coronavirus battle, scientists have teamed up with billionaires for COVID-19 'Manhattan Project': report 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z These scientists and their backers describe their work as a lockdown-era Manhattan Project, a nod to the World War II group of scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb. Manhattan Project-type group vowing to fight coronavirus launched by eclectic group of scientists, billionaires: report 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z It drew heavily on technology developed by Manhattan Project government scientists to separate the 17 rare earths, a complex and expensive process. American quandary: how to secure weapons-grade minerals without China 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In 2001, I wrote about experts urging a “medical Manhattan Project” for new vaccines, antibiotics and antivirals. Opinion | When you drown the government in the bathtub, people die 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Hanford was established during the Manhattan Project in World War II. The site made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Most Hanford employees work from home due to virus 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z A self-described rebel, Dr. Anderson declined to enter the field of nuclear and particle physics, to which many were lured by the accomplishments of the Manhattan Project and the building of the atomic bomb. Philip Anderson, Nobel-winning theoretical physicist, dies at 96 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project was the secret and massive undertaking by the United States during World War II that resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb. Dow swells nearly 500 points as Wall Street stretches stock rally into second day 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Writing in the Guardian, he likened the scale of the response necessary to the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the nuclear bomb. UK to ban mass gatherings in coronavirus U-turn 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z This is the time for a Manhattan Project, to put all public and private energy into vaccine and antiviral development, diagnostics and expanded hospital capabilities. Opinion | As health experts sound the alarm, Trump fights coronavirus with alternative facts 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The clock was first created by US scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the world's first nuclear weapon. Doomsday Clock nearer to apocalypse than ever 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z That company was a subcontractor for the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II, U.S. EPA: Lead, uranium found after Detroit River aggregate spill 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z This work caught the attention of the Manhattan Project. Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Experimenting with elements created by the Manhattan Project, researchers realized that they could create two different versions, or isotopes, of promethium, the sixty-first atom on the periodic table. The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z That’s because in our competitive economy, making a better battery—from the research end through manufacturing and application—does not receive the same focus as a Manhattan Project or Apollo program. The Challenge of Replacing Internal Combustion with Batteries that Don't Combust 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The move would mark the first financial investment by the U.S. military into commercial-scale rare earths production since World War Two’s Manhattan Project built the first atomic bomb. Exclusive: U.S. Army will fund rare earths plant for weapons development 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Joseph Rotblat left the Manhattan Project, the US programme to build the first atomic bomb, to campaign for disarmament, eventually winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Brian Cox: Why I've been exploring our scientific past 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z That company was a subcontractor for the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II, according to U.S. No excessive radiation at Detroit River aggregate spill site 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z He was then assigned to the Manhattan Project, a World War II project that created the first nuclear weapons. Secret identity of fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic bomb secrets finally revealed 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Mark Kramer, the director of Cold War studies at Harvard, said the study cast new light on “how widespread espionage was in the Manhattan Project.” Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z It was created during the Manhattan Project but by now, it’s in all of us. Review: ‘Dark Waters’ plunges into ‘forever chemicals’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Science — whether it is Maxwell’s electromagnetism, the Manhattan Project that inspired Bush, or the Human Genome Project — has indeed been so socially transformative that its intellectual and technological machinery has gained seemingly irresistible momentum. Science must move with the times 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z During World War II, about 130,000 people were involved in the Manhattan Project, a highly classified collective effort that produced the first nuclear weapons and changed science, and war, forever. WWII’s atomic bomb program was so secretive that even many of the participants were in the dark 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z From working on the Manhattan Project to opposing nuclear proliferation and influencing the early days of NASA, Urey led chemistry in new directions, including to the Moon. Daily briefing: Negative result deepens vaping sickness mystery 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named the Manhattan Project, whose nerve center lay nearby in Los Alamos. Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Harold Urey also worked for the Manhattan Project. From bomb to Moon: a Nobel laureate of principles 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z "His efforts enabled the United States to develop artillery shells capable of piercing the armor of German tanks, and his contributions to the Manhattan Project helped end the war in the Pacific theater." Trump pardons Zay Jeffries, World War II scientist who helped develop tank-piercing artillery 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He helped develop artillery shells capable of piercing the armor of German tanks and also consulted on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. Trump pardons scientist who helped allies triumph in WWII 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Go watch this 482-foot Manhattan Project test detonation and then come back here and try to tell us you're not impressed: 482 feet—that's how far this towering Nolan Arenado moonshot flew last night - Golf Digest 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The Russians’ proper understanding of the scope and scale of the challenge was reflected in the code word they chose for the Manhattan Project: Enormoz. Review | The unlikely operatives who helped thwart Hitler’s nuclear bomb 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z His expertise in isotopes made him valuable to the Manhattan Project. From bomb to Moon: a Nobel laureate of principles 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The Pacific Daily News reported Thursday that Manhattan Project Beer Company is under scrutiny by Marshall Islanders who were exposed to high levels of radiation by U.S. government research from 1946 to 1958. Beer named for nuclear tests draws Pacific islands criticism 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z The National Science Foundation, our chief funder of basic research, was formed because of the success of the Manhattan Project. We Should All Be Science Critics 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Gen. Leslie R. Groves oversees scientists on the Manhattan Project, the first atomic bomb. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Among the Manhattan Project’s shadowy remits was the Alsos mission to halt Nazi efforts to build a bomb. Environmental racism, the world as it isn’t, and a guided tour of the planets: Books in brief 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Although still consulting on nuclear weapons, he — like many Manhattan Project scientists — worked to stop their spread. The scientist-spy who spilt secrets of the bomb 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z He supports the climate-change equivalent of the Manhattan Project, a multinational effort championed by leading scientists in the European Union that pools computational resources to build higher-quality models. Special Report: A Cloudspotters' Guide to Climate Change 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Although an oil worker, he was a fan of clean energy, and liked the idea of a Manhattan Project to implement it. Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It's even worse among liberals | Arlie Hochschild 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project was the code name of their effort. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, government scientists and the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert in 1945. Lawmaker: Expand compensation from nuclear weapons testing 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z He said that after Google announced they were working on the “Manhattan Project of AI,” foreign intelligence naturally would have been drawn to it. Trump suggests Google could be investigated for ‘treason’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Officials say their new partnership will ensure that the foundation’s collection of oral histories and other materials about the top-secret Manhattan Project will remain available to the public. US nuclear museum, nonprofit team up for preservation 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z And Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer, both of whom were leaders of the Manhattan Project, trained as postdoctoral fellows in Ehrenfest’s lab at Leiden University. The forgotten physicist: the perils of being Paul Ehrenfest 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z His mother was a medical missionary and then worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the Manhattan Project, which Happer credits with his interest in physics. William Happer: Trump aide pushing climate denial inside the White House 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign and the Manhattan Project are both said to have emerged out of these woods. Essential California: The all-male, ultra-elite Bohemian Grove meets 2019 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Defence officials began to call for a Manhattan Project to spot and tackle the devices. Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the incredible story of Gorgon Stare 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The foundation also helped pushed for the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. US nuclear museum, nonprofit team up for preservation 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z At the end of World War II, the Manhattan Project had just happened, the best and the brightest were going into physics, and “subatomic particles” were a major topic. Remembering Murray Gell-Mann 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The once-secret city in the mountains of northern New Mexico is where the atomic bomb was developed decades ago as part of the Manhattan Project. US lab scientist charged with lying about China contact 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The federally funded Sandia lab, which designs and sponsors the free event, has roots stretching back to World War II and the Manhattan Project’s development of the first atomic bombs. Robot Rodeo in New Mexico lets bomb squads put skills to the test 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Her father was a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later became a professor. Alice Rivlin, budget maestro who ‘helped save Washington’ in fiscal crisis, dies at 88 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project was top secret and its mission was to produce weapons-grade plutonium, an essential ingredient in a nuclear weapon. Hanford cleanup’s frustrating, yet astonishing, achievements 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z That turns out to be the U.K.’s version of America’s Manhattan Project, as Britain is loath to be left behind in the worldwide race to weaponize the splitting of the atom. Review: ‘Red Joan’ presents Judi Dench in a morally complex role 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It is also quite old—Alexander published a similar blueprint for “A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy Independence” in Issues in Science and Technology more than a decade ago. A Baffling Week for Climate Policy on the Hill 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “The Manhattan Project scientists could have said: ‘Look, we are doing innovation here, and innovation is always good, so let’s just plunge ahead,’” he told me. Can we stop robots outsmarting humanity? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The name of Alexander’s plan, with its reference to the Manhattan Project, invokes the national lab’s role in the American-led effort to build nuclear weapons during World War II. GOP Counteroffer to Green New Deal Pushes Innovation 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Alexander announced his own plan to tackle “Ten Grand Challenges” to curb emissions under the banner of a New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy. Climate change isn't a joke. Republicans should stop treating it like one | Kate Aronoff 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The first was built in 1943 at the start of the Manhattan Project. Contaminated soil cleaned up at Los Alamos’ Omega site 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z But the “Manhattan Project” offers no timeline or framework for actually reducing carbon emissions. A Baffling Week for Climate Policy on the Hill 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Leading physicists and other scientists worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. The goal: To build atomic bombs before Hitler could do the same. Peace techies vs. the Pentagon: Idealism will only go so far 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Starke also drew on her paternal grandmother, a GE chemist who she said worked on the Manhattan Project before being fired for becoming pregnant with her father’s brother. Glenn Close: ‘I feel like everyone’s rooting for me’ 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The organization was formed by Manhattan Project scientists after nuclear proliferation. How close to doomsday? Just ask former California Gov. Jerry Brown 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Recruited for the Manhattan Project in 1943, he soon found himself absorbed in making calculations connected to determining the behavior of neutrons and the amount of nuclear fuel necessary to ensure an atomic explosion. Roy Glauber, Nobel-winning physicist who applied quantum mechanics to optics, dies at 93 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z He continued, “It’s time for a modern-day Manhattan Project to effect a major change in the way humans use and produce energy.” Opinion | More Republicans Than You Think Support Action on Climate Change 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z This war will not be won without a change to personal-consumption habits and an all-out Manhattan Project effort that includes nuclear and waste-to-energy solutions. Inslee’s green agenda heavy on grandstanding, light on science 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z That letter served as a catalyst for research that led to the Manhattan Project. Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z So, in 1944, as D-Day approached, Leslie Groves — the general in charge of the Manhattan Project, the United States’ own effort to build the bomb — organized an intelligence mission to follow the Allied invasion. The forgotten quantum pioneer who turned wartime spy 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The Columbia’s relatively lush banks are lined with willow, cottonwood and other trees — even a fruit tree or two left over from pre-nuclear settlers, who were evicted when the Manhattan Project began. Beside a defunct nuclear site, Hanford Reach’s protected wildlife refuge is prime birding territory 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Hanford was created during the Manhattan Project in World War II and made most of the nation’s plutonium, including for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The Latest: Washington state nuke site returning to normal 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Hanford was created during the Manhattan Project in World War II and made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Energy Department ready to approve nuclear waste dumping 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The suit says Mallinckrodt’s predecessor, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, refined uranium compounds that were used in the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project decades ago at its factory north of downtown St. Louis. Missouri landfill operator sues for help with EPA cleanup 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It proved less effective than graphite, which their American rivals working on the Manhattan Project used to create the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Joachim Ronneberg, saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project, dies at 99 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z A more widely accepted view is that Hitler’s program, which predated the Manhattan Project, faltered in midwar because of scientific errors and Norway’s successful saboteurs. Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Watson’s subjects, including Manhattan Project heavyweights J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, operated under — and were arguably victims of — extreme compartmentalization of information. Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The moon shot and the Manhattan Project employed well-established scientific equations, engineering principles, and mathematical formulas. How to discover a new drug (and why it’s so difficult) 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the story drew the attention of the national Counterintelligence Corps, which suspected a leak from the Manhattan Project; swathes of the personnel at the project’s site in Los Alamos, New Mexico, were science-fiction fans. Beyond pulp: trailblazers of science fiction’s golden age 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The waste was shipped from a location known as Area G. It holds radioactive and other hazardous waste generated by weapons production during World War II’s Manhattan Project and the Cold War that followed. Los Alamos lab marks milestone with shipment of waste 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Playwright Tom Morton-Smith’s behind-the-scenes drama makes the science behind the fabled Manhattan Project richly comprehensible to the layman — no easy task. 99-Seat Beat: A Jewish telling of "Merchant of Venice," the race for the A-Bomb, and much more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Watson painstakingly outlines a complex web of who knew what, and when, to show how a series of opportunities to stop what became the Manhattan Project arose, then passed. Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z For the first-ever show at its new home, Rogue Machine Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of “Oppenheimer,” Tom Morton-Smith’s bio-drama about the theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project leader dubbed the “father of the atomic bomb.” Weekend Picks for Oct. 4-7: Los Angeles Ballet, 'Wicked Lit,' Le Salon de Musiques and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Adapted from "Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project." My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer For the first show at its new venue, Rogue Machine Theatre presents the U.S. premiere of Tom Morton-Smith’s bio-drama about physicist and Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Sept. 30-Oct. 7: 'Oppenheimer,' 'Gloria' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The nuclear waste, remnants from the Manhattan Project, was dumped there in the 1970s. EPA announces cleanup plan for troubled Missouri landfill 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Whereas the Manhattan Project and its vast infrastructure of labs and production sites largely dodged press exposure, Argus officials struggled to contain leaks. Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Pines hoped to work on his PhD with J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime leader of the Manhattan Project. David Pines (1924–2018) 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Argonne was formally chartered on July 1, 1946 to carry on the work on the Manhattan Project begun at the University of Chicago and code-named “Metallurgical Lab.” My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Hanford was created during the Manhattan Project in World War II and made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, that effectively ended the war. Work to demolish nuke weapons plant to resume in September 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project was the World War II-era program that produced the first nuclear weapons, using uranium processed at Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in St. Louis. EPA announces cleanup plan for troubled Missouri landfill 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Fuchs, the infamous German spy who passed secrets from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union, and the towering physicist Bohr serve as foils to the main plot. Atomic bombs through wars hot and cold 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Scientists working in Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, which provided enriched uranium for the weapon. Navajo Nation urges expansion of radiation exposure law 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z To anyone who did not work with the Manhattan Project, those places did not officially exist. My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z More than half of the nuclear agency’s facilities are more than 40 years old and nearly one-third date back to the top-secret Manhattan Project, Gordon-Hagerty said. Nuclear security agency begins work on New Mexico complex 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Gordon-Hagerty says more than half of the agency’s facilities overall are at least four decades old and nearly a third date back to the top-secret Manhattan Project. Nuclear security agency begins work on New Mexico complex 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “You worked on the Manhattan Project, am I correct?” A pilot fights to become the first female astronaut in alternate history novel The Calculating Stars 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z It marked the formal reemergence of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physics genius and scientific manager of the Manhattan Project. Review | When an extraordinary collection of talent gathered at the White House 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project was ultimately a frightening success. My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Decades before his 1965 Nobel Prize, Feynman was already a legend of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he helped develop the atomic bomb. Richard Feynman at 100 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Oak Ridge was one of three “secret cities” of the Manhattan Project, along with Los Alamos in New Mexico and Hanford/Richland in Washington state. Off the map: the secret cities behind the atom bomb 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project had been exciting from a scientific standpoint, but horrific in every other respect. A pilot fights to become the first female astronaut in alternate history novel The Calculating Stars 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The lab was created during World War II to design nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project. Purdue University, Bechtel Corp. bid to run nuclear lab 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project continued to expand, clothed in a secrecy that extended not only to the public, but to the words its participants were allowed to use with each other. My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Scientists working in the then-secret city of Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the World War II-era Manhattan Project. US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “At first glance they seem like very normal American communities,” says Martin Moeller, senior curator of the Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project exhibition, which opens on Thursday. Off the map: the secret cities behind the atom bomb 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “What I should have said was that Dr. York already has the necessary clearance levels from the Manhattan Project. You understand.” A pilot fights to become the first female astronaut in alternate history novel The Calculating Stars 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Aside from its role in the Manhattan Project, work at Los Alamos provided the technical understanding in nuclear energy that led to the Naval Propulsion Program. New Mexico delegation suggests name for new nuclear sub 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z They also want to delve into other parts of the Manhattan Project’s history, such as the segregation of African Americans who came to work at Hanford. Nagasaki survivor visits Hanford, finds some of the story still untold 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Scientists working in the then-secret city of Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. New Mexico residents eye Congress testimony on Trinity test 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The first big scientific project was the Manhattan Project, which gave us the atomic bomb. There's Only One Way For Humanity to Survive. Go To Mars. 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z “There needs to be a ‘Manhattan Project’ approach to it,” he said. Sorry, Hanford: Your radiation leaks aren’t as important as tax cuts 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico supervising a mechanical engineering team that supported the radiation labs. Carlsbad man, 102, sets world zip-lining record 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Developing new exhibits is typically a yearslong process, and the Manhattan Project park work has been slowed still further by a lack of funding. Nagasaki survivor visits Hanford, finds some of the story still untold 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z It is maintained by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a non-profit research organisation which emerged from the Manhattan Project. How the Doomsday Clock Could Help Trigger the Armageddon It Warns Of 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by veterans of the Manhattan Project concerned about the consequences of their nuclear research. The Doomsday Clock is now just 2 minutes to ‘midnight,’ the symbolic hour of the apocalypse 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The landfill there, known as West Lake, contains thousands of tons of radioactive waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project. At Superfund sites, Scott Pruitt could flip his industry-friendly script 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z And advocates rightly argue that the research and development of a universal flu vaccine — ultimately the only effective defence against future pandemics — merits a programme equivalent in scale to the Manhattan Project. Science must get ready for the next global flu crisis 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Park officials are charged with telling the history of the secret Manhattan Project at the dawn of the Atomic Age. Nagasaki survivor visits Hanford, finds some of the story still untold 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Bethe also worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967, for contributing to the theory of nuclear reactions. Nobel winners make appearance in Los Alamos 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Kim, however, turned the program into North Korea’s version of the Manhattan Project, the race to develop the atomic bomb in the United States. How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Underestimated North Korea 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Once in America he became involved in the Manhattan Project, which led to the first nuclear bomb, bringing him renown well beyond the physics community. Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Chemical Warfare Service was a dry run for the Manhattan Project 15 years later, when physicists took the baton on innovating weaponry. Review | How the U.S., ignoring cost, risk and morality, marched into chemical warfare 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z In Japan, the Manhattan Project park has drawn both interest and scrutiny. Nagasaki survivor visits Hanford, finds some of the story still untold 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z We need a Manhattan Project type effort to address this massive threat to our food and water supply and many other aspects of life that we have taken for granted. Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks With 70 Years of American Foreign Policy 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Second, we need the equivalent of a biological Manhattan Project for predicting and preserving biodiversity. Ice will return but extinctions can't be reversed. We must act now 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z No reservations are needed for the leather seats in the classy Spirits Library, where sips of choice include the Manhattan Project No. 6, a strong contender for the city’s best Manhattan. 8 winter date ideas that go beyond dinner and a movie 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi contributed to the discovery of nuclear fission and was part of the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bombs. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi Best known for his pivotal role on the Manhattan Project, he was prolific in his field. The Last Man Who Knew Every thing: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Not by coincidence, scientists on the Manhattan Project studied the Halifax disaster to predict the potential effects of their weapons. Century After Halifax’s Great Explosion, City Marks Anniversary 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Hanford was established by the Manhattan Project during World War II to make the plutonium for the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and most of the plutonium during the Cold War. Nuclear sludge at Hanford put in safer storage 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “The magic sauce, you know, ‘build trust,’ like, if we could figure out how to do that it would be like the Manhattan Project. De Blasio Kept Crime Down in First Term. His Next Goal: Nicer Police. 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z He also sets Fermi’s work as an adviser and ad hoc problem solver at Los Alamos against the full drama of the Manhattan Project. The doubly dextrous physics of Enrico Fermi During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. The Computer That Could Rule the World 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The city served as a processing center for the uranium used in the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, with waste being dumped in and infecting two St. Louis suburbs. Moms and other activists tackle radioactive waste in documentary 'Atomic Homefront' 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Hanford was built by the Manhattan Project during World War II as the U.S. raced to beat Germany to create an atomic bomb. Crews start injecting grout into collapsed Hanford tunnel 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z This advance was fundamental to the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project, which drew in both Wheeler and Feynman. Theoretical physics: When the doer met the dreamer : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Think of it as a Manhattan Project for 10 scourges that bring misery to millions. Brain surgery for Parkinson’s changed my life, but now my symptoms are back 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z During World War II she worked on separating uranium isotopes for the Manhattan Project. The Last Woman to Win a Physics Nobel 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The scientific credit for that typically goes to hands-on researchers such as Oppenheimer, but Conant established many important structural elements of the Manhattan Project. History: Of chemistry and conflict : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z As Manhattan Project Director General Leslie Groves put it, "As far as I was concerned, his decision was one of noninterference — basically a decision not to upset the existing plans." What to Know Before You Compare Truman's Hiroshima Statement to Trump's North Korea Ultimatum 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The first full-scale demonstration of such a thermonuclear weapon was conducted in 1952 in the Ivy Mike test, just seven years after the first atomic bomb test of the Manhattan Project. North Korea has made a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a missile. How worried should the world be? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z THE creation of a Manhattan Project National Historical Park offers a sobering package of technological achievement, historical perspective and harsh lessons learned. Hanford’s full story is worthy of national-park status 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Sen. Patty Murray, who backed the 2014 legislation that created Manhattan Project National Historical Park, this is history her own family lived through. Under the mushroom cloud: Will Nagasaki’s story be told at Hanford’s new national park? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z James Conant was a key figure at the intersection of science and politics — and in the Manhattan Project. History: Of chemistry and conflict : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The town, named after the minerals extracted and processed there, had secretly supplied uranium to the Manhattan Project during the war. Under siege by liberals: the town where everyone owns a gun 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The interactive exhibit, Manhattan on the Mesa: Manhattan Project Properties at Los Alamos, opens Saturday and tells the story of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists working on the world’s first atomic bomb. Los Alamos museum hosts multimedia Manhattan Project exhibit 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It was the forerunner of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret government project that eventually invented a working atom bomb. How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z A document released this year outlines basic themes for Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which in Hanford offers tours of a shuttered reactor and other sites. Under the mushroom cloud: Will Nagasaki’s story be told at Hanford’s new national park? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Her family lives only a couple of miles from West Lake, a contaminated landfill that contains thousands of tons of waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project. Scott Pruitt vows to speed the nation’s Superfund cleanups. Communities wonder how. 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The Hanford High junior is in the middle of a year-long endeavor to record the stories of World War II veterans, merchant sailors, nurses, Manhattan Project workers and home front supporters. Washington student working to preserve World War II history 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z His father, chemist Clarence Hiskey, had worked on the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb until authorities caught him spying for the Soviet Union. Nicholas Sand, who co-created LSD known as ‘Orange Sunshine,’ dies at 75 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Neither Einstein nor Szilárd ever received security clearance to work on the Manhattan Project. How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z They wrote that exhibits at Manhattan Project National Historical Park must reveal the inhumanity of the nuclear weapons, and offered to contribute A-bomb artifacts and photos. Under the mushroom cloud: Will Nagasaki’s story be told at Hanford’s new national park? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z His father, a former merchant marine who had retrained as a nuclear engineer, came to Richland to work for a plant that supplied fissile material to the Manhattan Project. James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z But EPA Acting Region 7 Administrator Edward Chu says no Manhattan Project waste was found despite extensive testing. EPA: No contamination in homes near Bridgeton landfill 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project, which during the Second World War harnessed nuclear energy for the atomic bomb, was not powered by graduate students. Biology needs more staff scientists 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z A Manhattan Project scientist insisted that the same protections be offered to those working with an equally lethal substance, plutonium, because of the Radium Girls. ‘The Radium Girls’ tells of the women whose deaths revolutionized the workplace 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z In the 1940s the U.S. government built Hanford and other complexes to produce plutonium and uranium for atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project. Hanford nuclear site accident puts focus on aging U.S. facilities 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Hanford, created during the World War II Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb, for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons. Hanford’s collapsed tunnel may have gone unnoticed 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Los Alamos played a key role in the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. The Latest: US energy secretary touts nuclear power 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In the early days of World War II, the Army needed someplace remote to build a secret city for the Manhattan Project. Atom-smashing scientists are unnerved by harsh Trump budget 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Hanford was one of three Manhattan Project locations where workers raced to create a nuclear weapon before Germany. Annual Hanford tours to start April 17 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z He collaborated with other advocates for the creation of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which includes Hanford’s historic B Reactor. Voice for Tri-Cities in nation’s capital retires 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Theoretical physicist Edward Teller, a key member of the Manhattan Project, was then grappling with the design for a hydrogen bomb. Physics: Six decades of science advising : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Several of the most important participants in the Manhattan Project were refugees from Europe. How Trump’s travel ban could hurt science 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The apocalyptic clock was created by former Manhattan Project scientists in an effort to bring public attention to the threat of nuclear war. Doomsday Clock ticks 30 seconds closer to midnight, thanks to Trump 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The Bulletin was founded by US scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first nuclear weapons during the second world war. Doomsday Clock closer to midnight in wake of Donald Trump election 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It traces its origin to the Manhattan Project, when the Atomic Energy Commission was charged with analyzing the Soviet Union’s atomic weapons program. A look at the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The military site manufactured TNT as part of the Manhattan Project that developed the world’s first nuclear weapons. Feds to clean up former WWII TNT site in western NY town 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In that book, Dr. Stone suggested, on flimsy evidence, that a renowned Manhattan Project scientist, Philip Morrison, had been a Soviet spy. Jeremy Stone, arms-control advocate who led activist science group, dies at 81 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “The pattern of the use of atomic weapons was set at Hiroshima,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, said in November, 1945, just a few months after the Japanese city’s destruction. World War Three, by Mistake 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The Manhattan Project Park is one of the more unique parks in the national system. Los Alamos officials hope to develop park tourism plan 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Greenglass said he had given the Rosenbergs research data he had obtained while working as an army machinist at the Los Alamos, New Mexico, headquarters of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. Ethel Rosenberg's sons return to White House to plead mother's exoneration 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Greenglass said he had given the Rosenbergs research data he had obtained while working as an Army machinist at the Los Alamos, New Mexico, headquarters of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. Sons of Ethel Rosenberg plead with Obama to exonerate mother 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The organization was formed by scientists from the Manhattan Project — the Allies’ atomic bomb program during World War II — concerned about the ethical use of science. Jeremy Stone, arms-control advocate who led activist science group, dies at 81 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z It was hurriedly built by the Manhattan Project in the darkest days of the war as the United States rushed to beat Nazi Germany in developing the first atomic bomb. Hanford’s Manhattan Project park celebrates first year 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Monday’s event largely framed the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb as a triumphant and noble pursuit of the American people. Former nuke workers worry about health compensation 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z During the second world war, Los Alamos was the site of a classified research laboratory, built as part of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. Atomic City, USA: how once-secret Los Alamos became a millionaire's enclave 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer invited him to join the Manhattan Project and created a unit named after him. Physics: Fallible pontiff of physics : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Lofgren also was involved in the Manhattan Project, the federal government's successful effort to build an atomic bomb. Edward Lofgren, physicist who built early particle accelerator, dies at 102 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z His nimble investigation interweaves the narratives of pharmaceutical companies with those of child psychologist Keith Conners, who led ADHD's 'Manhattan Project', and young people grappling with the medical fallout. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z He told reporters that catching up on the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb “felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Intelligence Briefings for Presidential Candidates Caused Trouble From the Start 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Los Alamos is part of the new Manhattan Project National Park, and a new mobile app released by the lab lets users explore the 1940s “Atomic City”. Atomic City, USA: how once-secret Los Alamos became a millionaire's enclave 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Project coordinated the work of more than 130,000 people in over a dozen states. Peter Thiel: Trump has taught us this year’s most important political lesson 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Kalanick said it was like the Manhattan Project, and the idea was to use the company’s resources to turn the city into a hub for autonomous cars. Why Uber is going to test its new self-driving cars in Pittsburgh 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Later a collaborator on the Manhattan Project, Wilson, whom most people called Bill, was an avid swimmer. The Murky History of the Butterfly Stroke 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Enclosed was a small bronze lapel pin commemorating the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic weapons dropped on Japan to end World War II. Man waiting for late father’s Wah Chang compensation 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Although the theoretical consequences of an underwater detonation had been studied by the members of the Manhattan Project, who built the Trinity device, this would be the first practical test. America at the Atomic Crossroads 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The relevant nostalgia wasn’t even for Apollo; it was for the Manhattan Project. Peter Thiel’s Heroic Political Fantasies 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Take a literary tour of the Tri-Cities of southeast Washington, which has inspired poets, fantasy writers and historians with its rich mix of dramatic landscapes and history, from Kennewick Man to the Manhattan Project. The Tri-Cities’ contribution to our literary landscape: a poet laureate and shapeshifting werewolves 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Department of Energy contractors are scheduled this week to start removing contaminated soil leftover in northern New Mexico from the Manhattan Project and early atomic Cold War research. Juno set to slip into orbit around Jupiter 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The world’s first micrograms of plutonium produced at the Manhattan Project secret site “W” in Richland, Wash., were sent to Los Alamos for tests of a new atom bomb, but that wasn’t their only destination. 25 More Moments That Changed America 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z |
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