December — Dr. Enrico Fermi achieves the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, with a natural uranium device moderated with graphite. Fermi conducted the process using the first demonstration ...

Editor's note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford's historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...

What was Christopher Nolan thinking? In directing “Oppenheimer,” which has garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, Nolan relegates Enrico Fermi — the true architect of the nuclear age — to a bit part.

Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, is one of the principal founders of modern physics. On Dec. 2, 1942, he set in operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age.