Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on Peacock), about the man behind the creation of the atomic bomb, is a gripping, tense, and historically accurate blockbuster.

The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were two of many people who worked on the Manhattan Project. They might not be household names, but we believe they are the poster children for safety procedures. And ...

They adored it in Santa Barbara. They liked it a lot in Los Angeles. They damned it with faint praise in New York. And they reviled it in Los Alamos, N.M. "Well, not everyone hated it at Los Alamos," ...

Dr. Louis Slotin, Jewish scientist who died last week from the effects of radiation burns suffered as the result of an accident at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he was engaged in atomic research, was ...

The atomic bombs had been dropped. But at the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program led by J. Robert Oppenheimer that created the first ...