Both took on the project for a career boost as much as for any patriotism. Both were pragmatists who would do anything to get credit for winning the war. In this excellent book, Kunetka never gets ...

With the War Department’s gratitude, Iowa State and Wilhelm both received the Army Navy "E for Excellence" banner. Iowa State ...

Ernest Cuneo, a burly former Columbia football player who weighed in at nearly 300 pounds, was an unlikely spook—but an effective one. During World War II Cuneo served as President Franklin D.

A recently published book – The Brilliant Ones by Mariusz Urbanek – sheds ... At the time the Los Alamos and Manhattan Project were coming together. Their aim? To construct the deadliest bomb in the ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

Some residents of the Manhattan Project host communities feel frustrated by this trend. Richard Cook, who authored the book "Ignored Heroes of World War II: The Manhattan Project Workers of Oak ...

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 ...