The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

In the early Atomic Age, nuclear experiments were performed at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. Some involved a ...

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...

The atomic bombs had been dropped. But at the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program led by J. Robert Oppenheimer that created the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of ...