Los Alamos - The site of the historic Manhattan Project, a US effort started in 1943 to develop the first nuclear bomb, was partially destroyed by a week-old wildfire at Los Alamos, an official said yesterday.
"The historic V Site complex (TA-16) from the Manhattan Project has been lost," said the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory spokeswoman, Ms Kathy Delucas. "Two old white large wooden structures where we machined high explosives for the first atomic bombs" on the site have been burned by the raging fire, intentionally set by the National Forest Service on May 4th to clear brush.