Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

Heisenberg and his colleagues did not push as hard as they could have to make atomic bombs. The Norwegian resistance and Allied bombers eventually put a stop to Norwegian production of heavy water ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — A building at Y-12 that helped create the first atomic bombs is being demolished. Building 9201-2, also known as Alpha-2, is a 2.5-acre structure was built in 1944 to ...

This book explores the American use of atomic bombs, and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision making ...

And the American people would protest at making long-term sacrifices for anything short of complete victory. The decision to use atomic bombs made sense to U.S. military planners at the time ...

He speaks in classical Japanese, making it difficult for some citizens to fully comprehend what he is saying. After the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, he has ordered ...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that possession of a sufficient number of hypersonic weapons made the use of atomic bombs “practically” unnecessary. “If we analyze the ...

The prize was presented at a time when countries like Russia increasingly brandish the atomic threat. Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday ...