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 at Lincoln and later Howard universities, Taylor...

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 mathematicians during World War II, the 20-billion-dollar project resulted in...

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, who recognized that if you put one neutron in and got three neutrons...

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. Army Corps of Engineers. Under-taken at the urging of physicists Leo...

The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first nuclear weapon (atomic bomb) during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), it refers specifically to the...

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 been consumed with Iraq.The New Mexico governor said the United States must lead an...

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 of obstructing a roadway at the entrance of the plant in Oak Ridge, where much of...

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 Tuesday, said his wife, Jane Loevinger. She said a cause of death was...

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 as "Pief," had a heart attack Monday in Los Altos, Stanford University officials said."He...

This essay entails the work that was done in the Manhattan Project.  It mainly focuses on the preparations and the work of the diverse group of scientists who came up with the idea.