On the eve of World War II, the U.S. needed to staff up its infant spy agency, the OSS. A cadre of ‘scholars and bookworms’ ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will conduct a feasibility assessment of the congressionally requested study on the health effects of ...

Declassified records reveal that Soviet spying on the U.S. atomic bomb effort advanced Moscow’s bomb program, but Oppenheimer was no spy. Oppenheimer joined the Manhattan Project, a nationwide ...

The cables revealed the identities of numerous Americans who were spies for the Soviet Union ... such as "Enormous," which stood for the Manhattan Project, America's atomic-bomb program.

I think he was remembering the espionage. I think he was thinking back on Ted Hall, the Manhattan Project, and the Soviet Embassy, and trying to make sense of it. I think he was feeling guilty ...

With expanding infrastructure and projects like the Mars rover, China’s program rivals NASA’s, heralding a new era of ...

Guests will be able to participate in an espionage-themed immersive experience related to the Manhattan Project, view ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a ...

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 ...

This undergraduate level 3 course looks at the way nuclear weapons and the challenges they have posed have influenced the course of American foreign and defence policy, strategic thinking, and ...

She worked for the Manhattan Project in New York City while her husband ... whether inventing weapons or meeting with spies. She remembered trying to lure lizards into campfires in the hope ...

A whiz kid constructs a thermonuclear device with the help of his girlfriend after stealing a cache of plutonium from the doctor who is romantically involved with his mother.