In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial ... in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s ...

The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...

She worked for the Manhattan Project in New York City while her ... who worked in Enrico Fermi’s lab at the University of Chicago to demonstrate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Wendy Wintersteen is president of Iowa State University. Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our ...