‘City-killer’ asteroid is hurtling by Earth — and scientists are warning of its potential impact
An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...
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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)
“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...
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How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘father of the atomic bomb’
Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical ...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer witnessed the first explosion of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert. "We knew the world would not be the same," he said. Within a month, two atomic bombs were ...
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful ... and was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Overseeing the project was US ...
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The real story behind 'Oppenheimer'
Oscar-nominated 'Oppenheimer' suggests that the New Mexico test site for the atomic bomb was deserted before scientists arrived there. But a documentary called 'First We Bombed New Mexico' sheds ...
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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.
The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...
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Atomic shadows: The haunting imprints of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...
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COMMENTARY: Oppenheimer’s tragedy … and ours
The July 21 theatrical release of the film “Oppenheimer,” focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has ...
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‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time
The vivid portrait of the “father of the atomic bomb” is a brilliant achievement ... who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie ...