It was the greatest experiment ever conducted on U.S. soil. Discover 20 little-known facts about the Manhattan project.

This day in 1945 marked the first detonation of a U.S. atomic weapon under the Manhatten Project in the so-called Trinity test. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the director of ...

While some blame “woke” campus culture, the roots of this clash go back some 80-plus years, when the US first called on scientists for the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.

Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. Show more Naomi ...

America’s new energy secretary, Chris Wright, recently appeared to endorse this, declaring that the nation is “at the start of Manhattan Project 2”. Western leadership in AI is an economic ...