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How America Built A Secret Appalachian City To Develop Atomic Weapons – West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Home » Stories » How America Built A Secret Appalachian City To Develop Atomic Weapons How America Built A Secret Appalachian City To Develop Atomic Weapons By Mason Adams, Published February 4, 2026 – 4:23 pm Listen, Share this Article This conversation originally aired in the Feb. 2, 2026 episode of Inside Appalachia. In the…
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Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times
Opinion, Guest Essay How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness Aug. 12, 2025 A Manhattan Project development site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1944. Credit…Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more By Garrett M. Graff Mr. Graff is a journalist, a historian and the author, most recently,…
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Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now By Katie Hafner, The Lost Women of Science Initiative on August 3, 2023 Listen to the podcast: https://beta.prx.org/stories/484826 Nic Lewis: She was walking past where Oppenheimer was…
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Explained: What is Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Based on? | Movieweb
Here’s a deep dive into the complexities of the father of the atomic bomb, Nolan’s subject in his upcoming film Oppenheimer. By Andrew Sidhom, Published 3 days ago, March 4, 2022 Christopher Nolan will finally make his biopic. The famous director had a stunted attempt to mount one two decades ago when he penned a…
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Atomic Architecture: The Secret Cities of World War Two – CityLab
The Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II, worked out of three purpose-built cities in Tennessee, New Mexico, and Washington state. A new exhibition considers their design and legacy. Source: Atomic Architecture: The Secret Cities of World War Two – CityLab
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The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets – Atlas Obscura
While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible. Source: The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets – Atlas Obscura
