Marshall initiated search for a suitable bomb laboratory site. Oppenheimer offered the Los Alamos Ranch School as an alternate site.

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to ...

Kenneth D. Nichols, 92, retired Army major general and engineer who supervised the construction of the plants that produced the nuclear fuel for the first atomic bombs; in 1942, he joined the ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to ...

Kenneth D. Nichols maintained close relations with West Point his entire life. From left are Brigadier Gen. Nichols, Major Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, superintendent USMA at West Point, and Major Gen ...

Sandy Fye, registrar at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico, gave me this photo because my uncle, Kenneth D. Nichols, is standing at the podium. I recognized my ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...