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 ...

The Manhattan Project did create opportunities for Black ... in just six years. A complicated legacy Because of the extreme secrecy surrounding the project, very few people knew the purpose ...

The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and much of the stockpile of nuclear weapons created during the ...

“It was an awesome responsibility.” The legacy of the Manhattan Project remains mixed, Sayward says. The bombs dropped in Japan killed more than 129,000 people — most of them civilian ...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.” Marx’s aphorism feels newly prescient. Last week, the U.S.

The legacy of the Manhattan Project was complicated for Carlo Conterato, as it was for the world. The last-minute switch might have saved his life from the European theater of the war.

“We are cleaning up legacy sites, sites that are dirty ... At Y-12, crews are preparing to demolish a Manhattan Project-era building this spring and expect to finish a large mercury treatment ...

IN TIME AS WE CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH FOR WORKERS TO SCIENTISTS, THE LEGACY OF FEMALES ON THE MANHATTAN PROJECT IS INFLUENTIAL NOT ONLY FOR FUTURE LEADERS, BUT ALSO FOR THE ...

Ray Smith has been asked to provide info on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a short time compared ...

Nuclear legacy For more than a decade - beginning ... into a network of companies needed to supply materials to the Manhattan Project. “Several ore refineries, chemical producers, and research ...