November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment
NY Times, A Spy’s Path: Iowa to A-Bomb to Kremlin Honor:
“On Nov. 2, the Kremlin startled Western scholars by announcing that President Vladimir V. Putin had posthumously given the highest Russian award to a Soviet agent who penetrated the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb.”
Zie ook: Putin.
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October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

The Pupin Physics Laboratories at Columbia.
New York Times: Why They Called It the Manhattan Project:
“In “The Manhattan Project” (Black Dog & Leventhal), published last month, Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held uranium, laboratories that split the atom, and the project’s first headquarters — a skyscraper hidden in plain sight right across from City Hall.”
Tags: atomic bomb,history,manhattan,manhattan project,new york city,robert s. norris,wo2