The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

So why doesn’t Oppenheimer feature the demon core? The simplest answer is that the accidents happened after the Trinity Test, not before it. Even so, there’s an argument to be made that the film — ...

I think we can all agree that the physicists, engineers, and chemists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- which ultimately ended World War II -- were consummate geniuses and paragons of ...