Even though a portion of Manhattan‘s events were made up, the show includes all of the necessary scenes to accurately tell the Manhattan Project’s story. The scientists’ tireless day-to-day work and ...

Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...

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Eighty years after the dropping of the atomic bombs that ended the Second World War, President Donald Trump is systematically dismantling the public institutions of science and research that made ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has been a lifeline for some people and families exposed to toxins linked to decades-old nuclear weapons tests, but advocates say more people deserve ...

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) plans to build a 1 GW solar farm on a former top-secret Manhattan Project nuclear site in Washington State. The DOE’s plan is to work with Hecate Energy to repurpose ...

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Director-producer Lois Lipman’s documentary First We Bombed New Mexico will likely at least do one thing: It will break your heart. And the injustice the film depicts will also probably enrage you.

THE RECENT wave of AI systems from China has sparked fears that America is falling behind in artificial intelligence. This month OpenAI, one of the most advanced AI labs, warned the White House that ...

The Heritage Foundation is at it again—this time with a new proposal it’s branding the “Manhattan Project for Babies.” Drawing on the language of World War II–era urgency, Heritage is pitching a ...