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Records from Albert Einstein's final years are being published as a book around 20 years after their discovery, as ...
Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.
Eighty years ago this week, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his crew ushered in the nuclear age, when they successfully tested the first ever nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert.
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In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...
Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...
We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.
Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.
Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...
This will be an entirely novel way of managing quantum information and will have revolutionary implications – we will be able to quickly solve very hard problems in fields such as chemistry, ...
We tend to think of the US as the atomic bomb’s creators. But we’re ignoring some crucial figures, as Gareth Williams’s ...