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This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

A sweeping history of the DOE’s National Labs—from the Manhattan Project to fusion breakthroughs—and their impact on U.S. science and innovation.

In Part 1 of this series, I recalled being asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was so successful. I compared the timelines for the X-10 Graphite Reactor (nine months) to the ...

Some of the sites of the Manhattan Project, which led to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, may become a national park. The U.S. government is considering a proposal to turn three ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday compared the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program during World War II. “The AI race is the second Manhattan project ...

The "Genesis Mission" Executive Order draws a direct analogy to the Manhattan Project to convey the urgency, national scope, and ambition of the new AI initiative. President Donald J. Trump signed a ...

Recently, I have been asked to provide information on why the Manhattan Project was able to be so successful in a very short time compared to what folks envision can be done with a similar project in ...