His work on uranium separation was crucial to the development of atomic bombs. Knox became the Manhattan Project's only Black supervisor after he was appointed to lead the all-white Corrosion ...

The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security ... was done to Oppenheimer in 1954 was a travesty, a black mark on the honor of the nation,” Mr. Bird ...

White Sands includes the Trinity test site, the location of the first atomic bomb test, which occurred on the north end of the proving ground. The proving ground— later redesignated a missile ...

Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb, the showgirl in a 1957 promo photo wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who seemed to vanish from the ...

While an initial teaser made it seem like the film would be in black and white ... the Manhattan Project’s development of the atomic bomb during World War II, and oversaw the weapon’s ...

about 60 miles north of White Sands National Park. “The first atomic bomb was detonated up above that point on a steel tower that the bomb vaporized, so all that’s left now is one of the ...