manhattan project

Today is the 68th anniversary of the Trinity test, the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. It is the usual date given for the start of the Atomic Age, though CP-1 went live two and a half years earlier. A crude fission device detonated in the desert of New Mexico with an energy release of...

I'm wondering if someone could recommend what the best books there are on the Manhattan Project as well as the actual use of Fat Man and Little Boy. I recently read Brotherhood of the Bomb but it was more about the FBI's interest in Oppenheimer than about the actual science and history of the...

An interesting article from the NY Times on the Manhattan Project. I read "The Brotherhood of the Bomb" previously, which I reccomend as far as historical knowledge of the era, and decisions into The Bomb. Most people don't know the amount of work that was done right in NY...