The development of nuclear weapons during World War II was codenamed the Manhattan Project. Nuclear fission experiments were conducted at Columbia University in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Based on the box office success of the movie "Oppenheimer" we bring you this Aug. 5, 2005, story from former Forum reporter Dave Forster about a Concordia professor who was involved in the Manhattan ...

Less than ten weeks after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, a front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal carried this headline: “Secret U.W. Research Helped Create ...

Last Tuesday, Senator Angus King (I-Maine) wondered aloud whether a new Manhattan Project is needed to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear materials to produce technology that permits “detecting ...

A number of participants in the World War II-era Manhattan Project — which famously set out to build an atomic bomb — went on to have important postwar academic and national defense positions in the ...