Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single-volume history prepared by a specialist for curious readers without a scientific background. This project, the United States Army’s program to develop and deploy atomic weapons in World War II, was a pivotal event in human history. The author presents a wide-ranging survey that not only tells the story of how the project was organized and carried out, but also introduces the leading personalities involved and features simplified but accurate descriptions of the underlying science and the engineering challenges. The technical points are illustrated by reader-friendly graphics. .

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Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.

Learn about the development of the atomic bomb with this detailed timeline of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Manhattan Project, U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. The project’s name was derived from its initial location at Columbia University, where much of the early research was done. The first bomb was exploded in a test at Alamogordo air base in southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

The first of two episodes that tell the story of an unprecedented, U.S. government effort to beat Nazi Germany in the race to construct a nuclear weapon, the dawn of the atomic age, and how that legacy is being preserved.

Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.

This list takes a look at the 10 most seminal, historical, and influential events in the evolution of the United States of America. The lister tried to include 5 good and 5 bad events, but the bad won the numbers game. Readers of other nations are encouraged to submit lists of their own nations' most important events.

One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

In 1942, the U.S. government built a secret city in Tennessee for the Manhattan Project. Most of the people working in the plants were women

This organizational chart outlines the people behind the Manhattan Project, the American-led World War II research and development project that produced

The Manhattan Project was one of the major successes in the field of nuclear science. The project brought the actual power of nuclear fission reactions and

By some estimates, over 600,000 people worked on the Manhattan Project. Workers joined the project for very different reasons. The vast majority of the Manhattan Project workers were not aware of what it was trying to accomplish. It was only project officials and top scientists who were aware of the…

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John von Neumann has revolutionized the world of computing through his work on the Manhattan Project, the von Neumann (Princeton) Architecture, and the first IAS computer.

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There was a flash of blue and a surge of radioactive heat. Nine days later, Louis Slotin was dead.

Learn about the successes and failures of building the communities within the Manhattan Project's "Secret Cities."

For these people, finding the right words when staring down an enemy or sacrificing one’s life for friendship came easy

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Uranium is the most divisive of elements. It's been used in nuclear bombs and power stations - both of which fray tempers.

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The "Calutron Girls" are the final women of the Manhattan Project we're celebrating this year.

Of the 6,494 words President Obama uttered in his January 2015 State of the Union Address, only 108 of them were dedicated to the topic of our growing technological insecurity. Sure the leader of the…

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During the Manhattan Project, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi working on the first atomic pile in the Stagg Field Stadium. Chicago, December 1942