manhattan project

Trump Administration Cripples Nuclear Safety Board

Jul 24, 2018
Under a new order from the Energy Department, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will have to fight for information about and access to nuclear laboratories. In the past, the board has brought serious problems at those labs to light.
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The Girls of Atomic City

May 3, 2013
In 1942, the U.S. government created an instant, secret city in rural Tennessee to process uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb. And Rosie, it turns out, did much more than drive rivets.