New York City played a critical yet clandestine role in the earliest days of the top secret Manhattan Project.
A statue of Shinran Shonin, which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, was brought to the U.S. in 1955 and watches over a quiet section of New York City's Upper West Side.
New York City was a center for Manhattan Project research, which allowed the United States to execute the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
From a map courtesy of NYU students, here are 10 monuments, memorials, parks, and historic locations throughout NYC to celebrate International Day of Peace.
A statue of Shinran Shonin, which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, was brought to the U.S. in 1955 and watches over a quiet section of New York City's Upper West Side.
Untapped Cities founder Michelle Young recounts the story of her grandfather's survival of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.