It's a popular fun fact that communicates the scale of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge. In his 1987 memoir "The Road to Trinity," Col. Kenneth Nichols, who oversaw the Oak Ridge and Hanford ...

Therefore, a major part of Oak Ridge’s Manhattan Project effort can be contributed to Oppenheimer ... The first is a viewing of the NBC documentary film, "Oppenheimer: After Trinity," at 7 p.m.

This story was updated to add information. Barbara Scollin, great niece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills ...

Thus, they both knew at the outset about the purpose of the Manhattan Project ... despite the success of the Trinity Test. He ...

During the Manhattan Project (1943-45), the Oak Ridge ... affected by the radioactive fallout from the Trinity test, they were sent to Oak Ridge in 1948 for monitoring. They grazed on 5,000 ...

"He needed the uranium that was being produced here." Oak Ridge was built in 1942 to support the Manhattan Project by creating the enriched uranium that would fuel Little Boy, the bomb dropped on ...

But even now, the eastern Tennessee city of Oak Ridge is not widely recognized for the contributions of its African American work force to a monumental project in U.S. history and its role as one ...

In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...