The atomic bomb's Big Science legacy | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The atomic bomb's Big Science legacy | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Manhattan Project was the first instance of “Big Science,” as Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Alvin M. Weinberg famously called it in 1961 in the journal Science. Large-scale scientific research, consisting of projects usually funded by national governments, is now exemplified by US Energy Department national labs, the Human Genome Project, NASA, and many other