Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time compared to what folks envision can be done with a similar project in ...

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

A stunning Dutch Colonial that was built in the early 1900s has landed on the real estate market in Silicon Valley, California. Only thing is, it was there before Silicon Valley was even a concept.

On July 16, 1945, an enormous column of smoke rose up to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) high above a remote part of the Jornada Del Muerto Desert, New Mexico, preceded by a tremendous flash that lit up ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The first atomic bomb was tested in the early hours of July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site in New ...

There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create the nuclear bomb. Most of them don’t have a lot of technical substance, ...

A plutonium core from the Manhattan Project became deadly when two laboratory accidents exposed scientists to fatal radiation ...