Keim said, “It was over. A huge relief, but then a sense of sadness or the gravity of realizing that the bomb killed so many ...

K-25 was one of four sites built by the U.S. government in Oak Ridge during World War II to support the creation of the first atomic bomb.

K-25, ORNL, and the Y-12 National Security Complex have all played distinct but interconnected roles in supporting the Navy's ...

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

Her father, Donald Schover, was one of 67 people working on the bomb at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who signed a petition imploring President Harry S. Truman not to use what ...

“The atomic bombing changed history. It’s important to be here in this place at Y-12 in Oak Ridge because this is where the bomb was born. The Hiroshima bomb was a highly-enriched uranium bomb.

To the Editor: Our daughter, Linda Coutant, a staff writer for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), has written an article on Oak Ridge’s Manhattan Project National Historical Site for ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump ...

Venesa Torres of Oak Ridge watches as citizens ring the International Friendship Bell at A.K. Bissell Park at 6:47 a.m. to commemorate 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, ...