Tag: Manhattan Project

  • Nation & World

    Lessons for today’s Cold War 2.0 with Russia, China

    Intelligence expert says both seek to topple U.S. from atop world stage, with Beijing’s blend of money, influence, all-hands-on-deck approach posing bigger threat.

    10 minutes
    Calder Walton.
  • Nation & World

    Closer look at ‘father of atomic bomb’

    Historian Steven Shapin unwinds the complexities of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist and a legend

    10 minutes
    J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1920s and 1950s.
  • Nation & World

    Cruft Laboratory goes to war

    Harvard’s Cruft High Tension Laboratory was used in World War I as the Navy School for Radio Electricians. By World War II it was again called into service, this time assisting in the development of a torpedo that used acoustic technology to navigate toward an underwater submarine.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reflections on a nuclear mission

    Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Nobel laureate Roy Glauber reflected on his two years in Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world’s first atomic bomb.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard at 375

    The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

    14 minutes