With the War Department’s gratitude, Iowa State and Wilhelm both received the Army Navy "E for Excellence" banner. Iowa State ...

Both took on the project for a career boost as much as for any patriotism. Both were pragmatists who would do anything to get credit for winning the war. In this excellent book, Kunetka never gets ...

Ernest Cuneo, a burly former Columbia football player who weighed in at nearly 300 pounds, was an unlikely spook—but an effective one. During World War II Cuneo served as President Franklin D.

Stretching across roughly 1,550 square kilometers (600 square miles) in southeastern Washington, the Hanford Site was set up in 1943 by the Manhattan Project ... in his 2020 book about the site.

America’s new energy secretary, Chris Wright, recently appeared to endorse this, declaring that the nation is “at the start of Manhattan Project 2”. Western leadership in AI is an economic ...

Some residents of the Manhattan Project host communities feel frustrated by this trend. Richard Cook, who authored the book "Ignored Heroes of World War II: The Manhattan Project Workers of Oak ...

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 ...