It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

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 ...

Finally a lab for the design and construction of the bomb was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The cost of these Manhattan Project installations was $2 billion. J. Robert Oppenheimer was made ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

"Orano USA's selection of Oak Ridge for its U.S. uranium enrichment plant heralds a new historical development: the second Manhattan Project," Dassow wrote. "On land that has belonged to the ...