Manhattan

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie, was a hematology technician at Los Alamos. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. Years after the war, she returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory to study the effects of radiation on the human body. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST   EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Floy Agnes Lee: It was in 1945, and the bomb was being developed at that time. And my assignment was to…

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs during World War II. Its results had profound impacts on history: the subsequent nuclear arms race has radically changed the political world order in ways that are still evident today. Thousands of scientists, including theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, took part in the Manhattan Project, often while they and their families were lodged at secret military bases in remote locations. It resulted in the two atomic bombs dropped on the…

In 1942 physicist Leona Woods was 23 years old and the only female scientist hired onto Enrico Fermi’s team at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. She was also the only woman present for the world’s first successful nuclear chain reaction. Amid everything, she managed to conceal her pregnancy until two days before her baby was born in 1944. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Katie Hafner: On July 16th, 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first successful test of a nuclear bomb in…

Despite being one of the most meticulously recorded scientific events in recent human history, many aspects of the creation of the nuclear bomb remain a mystery. Christopher Nolan‘s new biopic Oppenheimer — based on the life of the eponymous physicist widely considered to be the father of the bomb — seeks to delve into some of these questions that aren’t so much rooted in science, but psychology instead. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a fascinating character (he’d have to be to justify a film with a three-hour runtime).…

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Image via Getty Images. At the time J. Robert Oppenheimer was recruited by the U.S. government to oversee the creation of the world’s first atom bomb, the operating assumption was that Germany was on the very cusp of nuclear technology, and could be the first to develop it. The drama of this nuclear arms race will be the focus of the upcoming Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer. But how does Albert Einstein play into the equation? Oppenheimer and Einstein, both highly-esteemed theoretical physicists, knew each…

Just a few hundred people of Chinese heritage still live in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. Many have been pushed out to cheaper and safer areas.Noah Sheidlower | CNBCPenny and Jack Lee, now married, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s among the thousands of people of Chinese heritage who lived in apartments lining the main stretches of Washington, D.C.'s bustling Chinatown."Chinatown was very bright, vibrant," Jack Lee recalled. "All of our recreations ended up being in the alleys of Chinatown." They felt it was a safe haven,…

A judge has granted a full temporary order of protection for the woman involved in the case against Jonathan Majors stemming from an alleged domestic dispute. The order, which was requested by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, was granted with the consent of defense counsel, Doug Cohen, the press secretary for the DA, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement Thursday. A limited temporary order of protection had been granted during Majors’ March arraignment. The actor, who has denied any…

In a 13-page court filing outlining the New York criminal case against former President Trump, Manhattan Dist. Atty. Alvin Bragg on Tuesday described a years-long “catch and kill scheme” in which Trump and his associates buried negative stories about him by doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money.The alleged payments in the run-up to the 2016 election — to a porn star, a Playboy model and a Trump Tower doorman — didn’t constitute crimes on their own, Bragg said. What did were Trump’s alleged efforts to…

NEW YORK —  New York was the focus of the nation Tuesday as Donald Trump turned himself in on criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom following the former president’s unprecedented indictment, amid a loud and boisterous crowd of fans, foes and reporters. Former President Donald Trump, center, at criminal court in New York on Tuesday. Trump, the first former U.S. president to be indicted, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in a Manhattan state court to face criminal charges. (Angus Mordant / Bloomberg…