On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan to force the unconditional surrender that ...

LEWISTON, N.Y. — As the world marks 80 years since the Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the effort to develop the weapon lingers in the ground throughout Western New York.

The Manhattan Project culminated in the dropping of atomic weapons on Japan by the U.S. in early August 1945, a move that ended World War II. A national park site in three time zones tells the complex ...

The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. The Heritage Foundation wants a “Manhattan Project for the ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...

"The exploration of how key government officials were unaware of the implications of developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, leaving the lives of millions of Americans in the hands of a ...

Big science and the bomb -- Long before the bomb: the origins of big science -- Science, the military and industry: the great war and after -- From fission to mission: the origins of the Manhattan ...