"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 ...

2, 1942, a group of 49 scientists gathered to conduct the criticality test. According to those who were there ... becoming the nation’s first national lab—Argonne National Laboratory. In order to ...

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan ...

said, "I think that his concern was that it could look bad for the Manhattan Project. And there was a general ... two days ...

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the ... during the scene of the world’s first atomic bomb test. “That scene alone was terrifying ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

After the Trinity test, she joined several of the top Manhattan Project scientists in signing ... In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes describes Kitty Oppenheimer as a ...

the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast amounts of energy released when atoms are split. The top secret project to create it was codenamed the Manhattan Project.

Three years later, America began the Manhattan Project, which led to the first ... may have worked out the science to create a nuclear bomb. "It is conceivable - though much less certain - that ...