The Manhattan Project: Making: The Atomic Bomb

The "hard-driving" director of the project from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw all construction and security.

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

Led the team that achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942. The "hard-driving" director of the project from the U

The project was a monumental collaboration between military organization and scientific research. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb