The Manhattan Project: Making The Atomic Bomb Direct

Led the team that achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942.

The brilliant theoretical physicist who served as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bombs were actually designed. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb

The project was spread across clandestine "secret cities" in the United States. The Manhattan Project - Department of Energy Led the team that achieved the first controlled,