In the summer of 1942, Los Alamos, New Mexico, became the center of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Army’s secret mission to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. “The Manhattan Project was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the ...

In 1943, hundreds of people converged on a desert in New Mexico to work on the Manhattan Project. Building the atomic bomb required a furious working pace and the utmost secrecy. It also forever ...

Reprint. Originally published: Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos Project. Los Alamos : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, 1961. (LAMS ; 2532) With new ...

LOS ALAMOS — As an adult, Jeff Glauber discovered a letter his father had sent to his own parents after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, revealing to them he had been ...

Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, headed the top secret Los Alamos Laboratory, which was established under President Franklin Roosevelt as home of the Manhattan Project.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A historic Manhattan Project ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Lottery registration is open for “behind-the-fence” tours of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. The guided tours will take place in October 2025 on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time ...

Adrian Hedden Alamogordo News achedden@currentargus.com The state’s demand that a repository near Carlsbad accept more nuclear waste from Los Alamos could cost the facility half its workforce and ...