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 ...

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 ...

Last spring, filming for Chistopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” stirred excitement at the Institute for Advanced Study and in Princeton’s East Pyne courtyard. The 1940s-era biopic, which opened with ...

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 ...