The main headquarters for the Manhattan Project. Initially called the Manhattan Engineer district—was at 270 Broadway. The army corps of engineers which had the responsibility of making the bomb ...

The transfer of land seized by the federal government in the 1940s to a French company that will revamp uranium enrichment in Oak Ridge is a symbol of a new Manhattan Project in a globalized world.

But the Manhattan Project wasn’t only about New Mexico, where J. Robert Oppenheimer presided over the birth of the atomic bomb. ... They had other status symbols. One was a Packard.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change.. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...