Manhattan project

Two thousand miles away from the U.S. A-bomb tests in 1945, something weird was happening to Kodak's film.

Groves and Oppenheimer working on the Manhattan Project.

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I entered Harvard in the fall of 1947. Within a year I started to know members of the physics department. By the time I left Cambridge ten years later I knew them all. A number of them had been at Los Alamos during the war and had essential parts in building the bomb. But none of them ever said anything about it, at least not to me.

1941: Franklin Roosevelt approves the creation of a secret program aimed at developing an atomic bomb.

The researchers said the new discovery could one day 'aid in nuclear nonproliferation.'

Of the 29 attendees, 17 of them would become Nobel Prize winners; a cursory view of the last names giving insight to the familiar names of so many scientific institutions, measurements and phenomena we have today.

Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.

From janitor to chemist, the women of Oak Ridge worked hard and talked little.

1955: A clock, a slippery toilet seat and a severe concussion lead to the invention of time travel. Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown is known for being a member (unverified) of the Manhattan Project, a physics professor at Hill Valley University, and a talented entrepreneur and handyman. But it’s his contribution to the field of temporal \[…\]

Implosion Assembly Method, in which a subcritical mass of fissile material is compressed by a chemical high explosive into a denser critical mass. The fissile material is typically plutonium or highly enriched uranium or a composite of the two.

Robert Oppenheimer jumps

After the Trinity Test, nothing was ever the same again.

Fourth Spy at Los Alamos Knew A-Bomb’s Inner Secrets--Historians recently uncovered another Soviet spy in the U.S. atomic bomb program. Fresh disclosures show he worked on the device’s explosive trigger.

A look back at Oak Ridge's role in the Manhattan Project, revealing its historical significance.

Oppenheimer. Fermi. Feynman. Groves. When most people think (or read) about who was behind the American effort to make the atomic bomb, these are the names...

America's first atomic bomb was made at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. But quietly, for years, some at Los Alamos have puzzled over ways to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

In the scenes set in Los Alamos, "Oppenheimer" characters wear round badges with combinations of letters and numbers.

FERMIAC: The Computer that Advanced the Manhattan Project http://ift.tt/1geXTUY