Back in the relatively quiet nuclear years of the Obama administration, the Department of Energy brought Y-12 National ...
One week, the group stands on a pedestrian bridge over a busy road on the University of Tennessee ... because Oak Ridge is right there, but it's kind of handy to have our own bomb plant." ...
and in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but Oppenheimer set up a new research station at Los Alamos, New Mexico. There he brought the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating an atomic bomb.
Barbara Scollin and D. Ray Smith bring the 12th part of her story on Kenneth D. Nichols. We learn of the nail-biting effort ...