The Manhattan Project culminated in the dropping of atomic weapons on Japan by the U.S. in early August 1945, a move that ended World War II. A national park site in three time zones tells the complex ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...