The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June of 1942. The project was given overall responsibility for designing and building an atomic device. At the time it ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not send waste from a western New York Manhattan Project cleanup site to a Wayne County hazardous waste landfill after "strenuous community pushback," Wayne ...
In the near future, the U.S. Army can once again become the nation’s prime integrator of science and defense innovation—just as it did in World War II with the original Manhattan Project. While the ...
In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...
Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time compared to what folks envision can be done with a similar project in ...
The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...