"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

During World War II, few working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb had a good understanding of the effect of nuclear radiation. Before 1963, it was common to conduct ...

The atomic explosion ... where Manhattan Project scientists would use it in the development of atomic weapons. Some of this ...

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing a petition that urged the military to demonstrate the bomb’s destructive capability rather than drop ...

From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline ... audible lingering aftermath of the nuclear explosion. The noise bounced around the area ...

A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima ... which eventually became the Manhattan Project. One of his first moves was to bring together various chain reaction ...