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’s increasingly clear that building more data centers and power plants will catalyze a reindustrialization of the U.S. that ...

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 ...

For years, the story of that name remained untold, for good reason. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Many of the thousands of scientists on the ...

Why did General Leslie Groves, the manager of the Manhattan Project, choose Hanford as the place to make plutonium? Franklin: Well, the choice to make plutonium was a realization that the ...

Plans for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste near Richland, WA are moving ...

Orano USA's selection of Oak Ridge for its U.S. uranium enrichment plant heralds a new historical development: the second ...

"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 ...

Located at 10260 133A Street in Surrey, The Manhattan comprises 418 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom homes ranging in size from 297 to 996 square feet. “Once we defined the project name ...

He oversaw a workforce of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office was the center of the wartime atomic energy’s ...

Robert Oppenheimer didn't think Clinton Laboratories, predecessor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was worth saving.