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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJ. Robert Oppenheimer working with Albert Einstein.Corbis/Getty Images Albert Einstein sent a letter...
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in...
Read part 2 of this woman's story about her mother's early adulthood in Oak Ridge
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoAnna Caryl Guffey continues her series on Oak Ridge. *** A series of earth changing events had taken...
The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWilliam Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black...
Manhattan Project scientists hired Columbia University's football team to lug uranium into the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoColumbia University football players (left) unknowingly helped transport uranium for top-secret...
President Harry Truman told of Manhattan Project on this date in 1945
KTVI via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn the closing weeks of World War II’s European theatre, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on...
When then-Senator Harry Truman tried to find out what was going on in Oak Ridge, Hanford
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe following idea for this "Historically Speaking" column and much of the content comes from C....
Despite delays, the Manhattan Project had a worldwide impact
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDespite delays, the Manhattan Project had a worldwide impact Carolyn Krause agreed to help document...
Albert Einstein’s Role in the Atomic Bomb Was the “One Great Mistake in My Life”
Biography via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPrior to his death, Einstein shared his regret over his role in the development of the atomic bomb....
Oppenheimer's greatest influence on Oak Ridge can't be seen today. Here's why
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSome of J. Robert Oppenheimer's influence on Oak Ridge is visible today and some is invisible. One...