and Little Boy. Testing world's first atomic bomb On July 16, scientists from the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an implosive-type plutonium bomb, called Trinity. It is believed ...

Those bombs were developed as part of the Manhattan ... Little Boy and Fat Man -- were dropped on the two cities in Japan, killing tens of thousands of people. Following the end of the project ...

This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold ... deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called "Little Boy," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project marked the dawn of a new era. This video takes an in-depth look at how it was accomplished and its lasting impact on the world.

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima ... This effort grew into “The ...

The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast amounts of energy released when atoms are split. The top secret project to create it was codenamed the Manhattan Project. It was led by ...

Physics graduate Ben Bederson was 22 when he applied to join the Manhattan Project: the top-secret ... said he “certainly” knew the damage the "Little Boy" bomb could cause when it was dropped ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very ... by 1945 some had figured out that they were in fact building an atomic bomb.

In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear ...

Gadget, the world's first atomic bomb, was detonated on the morning of July 6, 1945, changing the course of history. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Amanda Macias. Follow BI Video ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project ... the men who gave us the atomic bomb. Perhaps the best known of the women scientists of the Manhattan Project was Maria Goeppert ...