What was it like to live at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project? As thousands worked to build a top-secret atomic device, ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

Though Los Alamos was just one of many sites dedicated to the Manhattan Project, it was the most remote, and the most secret. Located in the desert, it has mountain views and vivid sunsets.

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Skip To Content Join the Conversation ...

With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

In Rachel Robbins’ new novel about the Manhattan Project ... grad student — are at work in Los Alamos, the site of a ...

test as part of the Manhattan Project, Trinity Site near Los Alamos, NM, July 16, 1945. What I did not know, and what Oppenheimer did not tell me, was that he was chairman of a very small group of ...

Here are the stories of just six of the hundreds of women that made essential contributions to the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Chemist Lilli Hornig first came to the United States in 1933 ...

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“The Manhattan Project had unleashed a force never before ... people had died because of the conflict. And the lab at Los Alamos moved on to improving atomic weapons, described in the film ...

which showcases the history and work of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which preserves locations associated with the development of the world's ...