Los Alamos is still an active national laboratory, and the Manhattan Project sites are still off limits to the public. Photographer Minesh Bacrania, a physicist who worked in the lab’s ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Historical Society is releasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the Manhattan Project. Michnovicz captured some of the most iconic images ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

The Los Alamos site alone comprised nearly 50,000 acres of land. A secret project like the Manhattan Project required serious vows of secrecy, and the punishment for breaking them was severe.

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Skip To Content Join the Conversation ...

even with the name of the Manhattan Project, most people wrongly believe that much of the work happened in New York. The reality is that most of the work took place, famously, at Los Alamos in New ...

Wendover AFB History Office Toward the end of 1943, Manhattan Project scientists at a secret mountain laboratory complex at Los Alamos, New Mexico, began to see the final form of their new creations.

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph ...

The Los Alamos History Museum is showcasing new photos that John “Mike” Michnovicz took during the Manhattan Project. Michnovicz captured some of the most iconic images of the top-secret ...