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.S. Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw all construction and security. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
The brilliant theoretical physicist who served as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bombs were actually designed. Led the team that achieved the first controlled,