Based on the box office success of the movie "Oppenheimer" we bring you this Aug. 5, 2005, story from former Forum reporter Dave Forster about a Concordia professor who was involved in the Manhattan ...

The development of nuclear weapons during World War II was codenamed the Manhattan Project. Nuclear fission experiments were conducted at Columbia University in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Less than ten weeks after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, a front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal carried this headline: “Secret U.W. Research Helped Create ...

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese physicist who was instrumental to the Manhattan Project. Wu was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics after being denied a Nobel Prize that her male colleagues ...

A number of participants in the World War II-era Manhattan Project — which famously set out to build an atomic bomb — went on to have important postwar academic and national defense positions in the ...

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...