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TMNT III: The Manhattan Project doesn't break new ground for the series, but it does provide pure, unadulterated beat 'em up action.

During World War II, a top secret government project to extract plutonium for an atomic bomb changed Richland from a farming community to a technologically advanced city

In 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan killing as many as 220,000 people. But how did the US come to have such destructive weapons before anyone else?

Everyone has done it. Written a letter we wish we could take back. A letter written in anger or sorrow. Albert Einstein wrote a letter just like that in 1939.

Mankind's greatest atomic power was harnessed through the invention of the nuclear reactor by two physicists, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard.

The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II.

The Trinity test site in New Mexico was the location where the first atomic bomb was exploded.

Since 1940, the United States nuclear weapons arsenal has had high environmental, public, and moral costs for the entire world; they were enumerated in a recent study.

Truman was a complex man and the man that will be judged by time for using Nuclear weapons "The Manhattan Project" for the first time.

Uranium. It's nature's heaviest naturally occurring element. Tom Zoellner examines the history, science, and politics surrounding this controversial metal.

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Tracing the process that transpired in the invention of the Atomic Bomb, the "Project Manhattan."

Harry S Truman, remembered today as a generally great President, made a number of very memorable decisions during his first term, including that to use "the bomb."

The Middle East brand was a natural for the Republican war hero. It has stayed with him even as the economy replaced Iraq as the campaign's leading issue.

Most people are aware of the destructive force held within an atomic weapon, but what are physical forces are conspiring in order to cause such a violent explosion?

The American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge,Tennessee, is a storehouse of knowledge about the city's secret history, along with the science of power and energy

In 1942, a "secret city" sprang up in a Tennessee valley, as Allied scientists raced to beat the Germans at developing enriched uranium to fuel the first atomic bomb.

Nuclear energy is an idea whose time has come again. Or has it? Veteran nuclear researcher James Mahaffey makes the case for an atomic solution to energy concerns.

Hop on a bus at Tennessee's American Museum of Science and Energy and travel back to WW II, to the Cold War, and on to today's world-class sub-atomic research facilities.

This classic work details the triumphs and tribulations of the world's great atomic scientists during and after their work on the most terrible weapons ever created.

Increasing population will require 10 TW of clean, cheap electricity over the next 50 years to stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at sustainable levels.

Each in their own way, the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of Midway helped turn the tide of war against Japan six months after Pearl Harbor.

Four centuries of New Mexico's past come to life in interactive exhibits at this new, high-tech history museum behind the Palace of the Governors on the Santa Fe Plaza.

Birthday, anniversary, special cccasion? Discover who was born on this day and what momentous occasions also took place on this day in history.

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The bombing of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6th, 1945 took science fiction from playful adolescence into a frightening, frightened adulthood.

A diary kept reverently for fifty years by a surgeon's family opens a window on the reality of what happens when a city is condemned to death.

Despite Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949, early Cold War crises were frequently diffused when the U.S. threatened to use the bomb in several Asian conflicts.

During World War II, Baade discovered that there were distinct stellar populations: The older Population II stars and Younger Population I stars.

Many would argue that science and faith are incongruent, even at odds. Logic and rational examination of religion could possibly bridge gaps and foster understanding.