The German "uranium project" began in earnest shortly after ... This was not (as one of the many myths associated with the German nuclear weapons effort had it) because of a mistake the physicist ...

A Secret Plan to Slow the Soviet Army. Blue Peacock was designed to place nuclear mines in West Germany. These mines would be ...

During the Manhattan Project, the Y-12 electromagnetic separation ... the two traded the German nuclear weapons material in exchange for the United States assisting in the escape from Europe ...

In 1957, 18 distinguished German nuclear scientists signed a joint manifesto addressed to the federal government. In view of the proposed acquisition of atomic weapons by the Federal armed forces, the ...

Germany is thinking about delaying the shutdown of the country's remaining three nuclear plants as Russia continues to reduce natural-gas supply to Europe's top economy. "The economy minister has ...

On the eve of World War II, scientists both in Germany ... Project had made 20 tons of the precious liquid, more than enough to fill the first heavy-water nuclear reactor. America's atomic weapons ...

Blykalla has recently inked a deal with the Germany-based company ... AB would create the test nuclear reactor which it is already working on now, with this project looking to create a test ...

Szilard himself was a Hungarian-born Jew who had fled Germany for the ... Arthur Compton to head a nuclear weapons programme, which eventually became the Manhattan Project. One of his first ...