But the Manhattan Project wasn’t only about New Mexico, where J. Robert Oppenheimer presided over the birth of the atomic bomb. At its height, it is said to have employed about 5,000 people in ...

A new film on J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and his role in the development of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II opens in theaters on Friday, July 21, 2023.

War Stories A New, Chilling Secret About the Manhattan Project Has Just Been Made Public Turns out Oppenheimer’s boss lied, repeatedly, about radiation poisoning.

Christopher Nolan's biopic of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is an engrossing thriller exploring how an ambitious scientific project gave way to Cold War fears.

In a 1995 speech at FSU preserved as an oral history by the Atomic Heritage Foundation's Voices of the Manhattan Project, Florida State University professor Raymond K. Sheline shared some key moments.

Oppenheimer’s job was saved by an officer for whom security was of utmost concern—Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. He believed Oppenheimer was uniquely qualified to ...

With any film about a historical event, one can expect portions of the movie will be accurate and others modified for theatrical purposes. Those who are familiar with the story of the Manhattan ...

Christopher Nolan’s mega-hit Oppenheimer features dozens of historical characters, but among them you won’t find Ted Hall. And yet Hall, who went to work on the Manhattan Project as a teenage ...

The Manhattan Project was remarkable not only for its scientific breakthroughs and its secrecy, but also its speed. In 1938, German chemists discovered that it was possible to split a heavy atom ...

In a chilling, existential, bizarrely comic moment, the new movie “Oppenheimer” revives an old question: Did Manhattan Project scientists think there was even a minute possibility that ...

The Niagara Falls Storage Site in Lewison stores radioactive residues and wastes from uranium ore processing in the 1940's Manhattan Project, in which J. Robert Oppenheimer's team developed the ...

"Oppenheimer," one of 2023's most anticipated films, ... Manhattan Project leader Gen. Leslie Groves awarded Detroit’s Chrysler Corp. a $75 million contract to build diffusers — large, ...