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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...
J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLeo Szilard, pictured circa 1945, circulated a petition to other Manhattan Project scientists,...
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...
Oppenheimer's hero Niels Bohr has a legacy as complicated as the "father of the atomic bomb"
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 months agoNiels Bohr Getty Images/Bettmann In Christopher Nolan's hit biopic "Oppenheimer," real-life Danish...
'The night turned into day': How Manhattan Project scientists reacted to the world's first atomic...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWe see an enormous yellow bubble that is an atomic bomb exploding against a black sky. To celebrate...
'Oppenheimer' depicts the scientist's affair with Jean Tatlock. Here's the real story about...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFlorence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."Warner...
Documentaries explore history of Manhattan Project in New Mexico, debut in Alamogordo
Alamogordo Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFilmmaker Larry Sheffield and the Flickinger Center presented two documentaries, "Alamogordo, Center...
Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLos Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost...
Oppenheimer Stifled Petition From Atomic Scientists Begging US Government To Not Drop The Bomb –...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJ. Robert Oppenheimer, the former director of Los Alamos Laboratory where the first atomic bomb was...