Earlier this week, the National Park Service shared two announcements pertaining to Oak Ridge: the city has been designated an American World War II Heritage City - the only one in Tennessee - and a ...

But the project also effectively ended World War II. Japan surrendered within two weeks of the detonations of bombs developed by the Manhattan Project. Wadhwani also reports for The Tennessean of ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once compared his firm’s controversial artificial intelligence ambitions to the Manhattan Project – the World War II-era US program to develop the world’s first nuclear ...

World War II broke out only a month later, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Manhattan Project began in earnest after the U.S. entered the war following the attack on Pearl ...

In a race against time and the enemy, J. Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why?

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs during World War II. Its results had profound impacts on history: the subsequent nuclear arms race has radically ...

The development of nuclear weapons during World War II was codenamed the Manhattan Project. Nuclear fission experiments were conducted at Columbia University in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons during World War II and is perhaps best known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But he was a complicated man.

The physicists who joined the Manhattan Project in the early days of World War II were largely patriotic men who worried that Nazi scientists were racing to build an atomic bomb.