Manhattan Project national park to highlight inhumane aspects of atomic weapons
A U.S. national park commemorating facilities related to the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime atomic bomb program, will include exhibits on the inhumane nature of nuclear weapons, a park official said. The plan to display the damage caused by the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan ...
Trinity witness recalls Manhattan Project work, day 'genie came out of the bottle'
Roger Rasmussen stood at the base of the Oscura Mountains staring at a boiling cloud of ash and smoke rising up in southern New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert. It was 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Not a minute before, Rasmussen had been face ...
Manhattan Project engineer says Nagasaki bombing was overly hasty
An engineer recruited to work on the Manhattan Project says he opposed the use of nuclear weapons on civilian targets and believes the United States "could have waited" before A-bombing Nagasaki, given that the Japanese government was in turmoil from the destruction of Hiroshima ...
Promoting specific views on the history of U.S. atomic bomb development is not the intention of a national park to be built to commemorate facilities related to the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. wartime atomic bomb program, the head of a body cooperating with ...
