The definitive telling of that story is Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, first released in 1986. The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text ...

The letter titled “On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project” was originally in German. It was sent to a Japanese ...

Gen. John Leslie R. Groves, right, appears with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, inspect the base of a tower at the site of an atomic bomb test was exploded in Alamogordo, N.M., on Sept. 9, 1945.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is based off the real-life physicist responsible for development of the atomic bomb. ... U.S. Department of Energy. It was then that General Leslie Groves, ...

If you want to learn more about the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, the Trinity Site, and J. Robert Oppenheimer himself, here's where to start.

General Leslie Groves, the military commander of the Manhattan Project, later blamed the British for failing to identify Fuchs as a Soviet spy. That’s correct.

The role the Hanford nuclear reservation site in Washington played in the making of the atomic bomb as seen in the ... J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie R. Groves at Trinity Site next to ...

Ultimately, the project to develop the atomic bomb had many fathers – and indeed mothers. While Oppenheimer was certainly one of them, there were others who had started the project before he had.

In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less).

As the first atomic bomb, fueled with Hanford plutonium, was detonated in the New Mexico desert 10 months later, leaders feared there was a chance that the chain reaction could destroy the world.