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The Oct. 1, 1945 letter is just three paragraphs typed on onion skin paper, under a curiously sparse letterhead containing only a four-digit P.O. Box located somewhere in Santa Fe. But its subject matter — along with the man whose signature is scrawled at the end — would permanently alter the history of the world in ways that proved both groundbreaking and horrifying. “This letter is to ...

The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize winners for physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace.

The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize winners for physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace.

The colors and light bursting from Oppenheimer's Trinity test — the first nuclear explosion — was almost beyond the powers of witnesses to describe.