Manhattan project

From predicting the existence of black holes to being insulted by Einstein — J. Robert Oppenheimer led an intriguing life. Here are eight facts you didn't know about the father of the atomic bomb.

What was the Manhattan Project?

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October 9, 2018 is Ada Lovelace Day, which commemorates the achievements of women scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. Many women worked on the Manhattan Project. Some worked in the production facilities as technicians, monitoring for leaks or adjusting the controls of the Calutrons at Oak Ridge; a small number of women…

Photographer Martin Miller traveled to two nuclear-explosives production facilities, now stark and mostly abandoned, where America's top scientists developed the world's first atomic bomb during World War II.

John von Neumann has revolutionized the world of computing through his work on the Manhattan Project, the von Neumann (Princeton) Architecture, and the first IAS computer.

Table of ContentsThe Manhattan ProjectLittle Boy And Fat ManThe Only Nuclear Bombings in HistorySuggested Reading Little Boy was a gun-type nuclear bomb deployed over Hiroshima, while Fat Man was an implosion-type bomb deployed over Nagasaki. We are eagerly awaiting the 2023 release of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”—a film exploring the Manhattan Project. For a while there, the burning question on our minds is… would Nolan use a real atomic bomb for filming, just

" if the radiance of a thousand Sun were to burst at once into the sky that would like the splendor of a mighty one. Now I became deat...

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