Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Engineer District, a secret U.S. government project begun in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb, was managed by Brigadier General Leslie Groves and undertaken by the U.S. A...
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Manhattan Project
In 1939, German scientists bombarded uranium-235 with neutrons. The atom split, releasing three new neutrons. The results were noted by other nuclear physicists all over the world, w...
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was an epic, secret, wartime effort to design and build the world's first nuclear weapon. Commanding the efforts of the world's greatest physicists and mathemat...
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Moddie Taylor gained distinction early in his career as an associate chemist on the U.S. Manhattan Project , which led to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. A chemistry professor ...
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In the vast history of science in the United States of America, there have been many great ideas and inventions. From the inventions of Thomas Edison to the ideas of Benjamin Franklin to the discover...
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said the United States needs to do more to prevent a "nuclear 9-11," a threat that he argues has been neglected because the Bush administration has...
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Five protesters were arrested Saturday at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant during a demonstration marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.The five were arrested on charges o...
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Samuel Isaac WeissmanST. LOUIS (AP) _ Samuel Isaac Weissman, a professor and chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, has died. He was 94.Weissman died Tue...
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Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a physicist who was a consultant on the Manhattan Project and devoted much of his life to promoting nuclear arms control, has died. He was 88.Panofsky, affectionally known a...
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For the U.S. to gain the upper hand in innovation, the government needs to partner with free enterprise. That's a key premise of tech expert John Kao's forthcoming book, "Innovation Nation." Kao do...
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday fined the federal Energy Department $1.1 million over violations of an agreement to clean up the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most pollut...
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Democrat Barack Obama endorsed the use of a carbon auction to reduce air pollution, one of several ideas offered by presidential candidates at a forum on global warming.All the major Democratic con...
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Paul Tibbets Jr., the pilot and commander of the B-29 that
dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday, the
Associated Press reported, quoting a spokes...
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Washington (dpa) - With illegal immigration and the economy
dominating US political debate, a group of scientists has called for
presidential candidates to turn more attenti...
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Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusi...
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Richardson: 'Nuclear 9-11' is possible
