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.
Less than ten weeks after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, a front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal carried this headline: “Secret U.W. Research Helped Create ...
Based on the box office success of the movie "Oppenheimer" we bring you this Aug. 5, 2005, story from former Forum reporter Dave Forster about a Concordia professor who was involved in the Manhattan ...
As the 2024 deadCenter Film Festival kicks off in Oklahoma City, several local filmmakers are submitting their work to be part of the lineup. "The Accelerator," a documentary discussing the life and ...
Last Tuesday, Senator Angus King (I-Maine) wondered aloud whether a new Manhattan Project is needed to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear materials to produce technology that permits “detecting ...
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 changed ...
A number of participants in the World War II-era Manhattan Project — which famously set out to build an atomic bomb — went on to have important postwar academic and national defense positions in the ...
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