Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as D
Nichols at his desk in 1945
Argonne National Laboratory established in 1946, in DuPage County, Illinois
Y-12 National Security Complex established 1943 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Aerial view of the Able mushroom cloud rising from the lagoon with the Bikini Island visible in the background
The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It
Employees of the Manhattan Project operating calutron control panels at Y-12, in a US government photo by Ed Westcott.
April 2011 Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance rally at the Y-12 entrance