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Thousands of workers at the early sites such as Oak Ridge and Hanford and at later sites "paid a very high price for their contributions to the atomic weapons industry."

Here’s the story of the Lilli Hornig, the only female scientist named in the film Oppenheimer.

In 2015, when he was still writing a weekly “Astronomy” column, in The Guardian, J.K. Obatala published a long serial, entitled “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Africa”. The article ran for 10 weeks; but he did not mention J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" cinematically depicts the first atomic test, but actual footage and photos from the event endure.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project physicists dead.

WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project physicists dead.

Werner Heisenberg was the German scientist in charge of Nazi Germany's weapons program. But how close were Nazis to getting an Atom bomb?

The real story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife Kitty Oppenheimer.