The Manhattan Project succeeded in World War II because of several unique conditions - political, industrial, and scientific - that are difficult (but not impossible) to replicate today.

The federal government says, at its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 workers and, by the end of the war, had spent $2.2 billion.

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about whether to change ...

Invoking the historic harnessing of America's industrial and scientific power during World War II to create atomic weapons under the code name The Manhattan Project, the new organization is ...

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin also proposed a 'NATO-like' alliance to combat China economically by sharing export controls and ...

The pair’s coordination on the Manhattan Project helped produce the world’s first atomic weapons, which were dropped on Japan to end World War II. Associated Press file photo ...

To invoke the Manhattan Project as a model for AI development is not only historically ignorant but also politically reckless.

Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump administration’s use of the military as domestic police violated federal law, setting the tone for legal challenges in other cities.

The Manhattan Project culminated in the dropping of atomic weapons on Japan by the U.S. in early August 1945, a move that ended World War II. A national park site in three time zones tells the complex ...

Watch these U.S. history documentaries to learn more about the making of the atom bombs used against Japan in WW2 and hear stories of Japanese survivors.