Collaborate Disseminate
There’s an upcoming movie, Argyle, about an author whose spy novels are a little too accurate, and she becomes a target of a real-life spy game. We haven’t seen the …read more Continue reading Predicting the A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
Usually, if you are listening to people debate about nuclear issues, it is one of two topics: how to deal with nuclear weapon stockpiles or if we want nuclear power …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Better Living Through A-Bombs
“It was as if someone my size had caught fire and walked through me.” Continue reading ‘We Were Guinea Pigs’: Soldiers Explain What Nuclear Bomb Blasts Feel Like
The nuclear age changed steel, and for decades we had to pay the price for it. The first tests of the atomic bomb were a milestone in many ways, and have left a mark in history and in the surface of the Earth. The level of background radiation in the air increased, and this had an effect on the production of steel, so that steel produced since 1945 has had elevated levels of radioactivity. This can be a problem for sensitive instruments, so there was a demand for steel called low background steel, which was made before the trinity tests. …read more
Doomsday Clock scientist Dr. Lawrence Krauss says as long as we possess nuclear weapons, it’s ‘unavoidable.’ Continue reading The Only Way to Prevent Another Nuclear Strike Is to Get Rid of All the Nukes
The start of World War II threw quantum theory research into disarray. Many of the European physicists left Europe all together, and research moved across the ocean to the shores of the United States. The advent of the atomic bomb thrust American physicists into the spotlight, and physicists began to meet on Shelter Island to discuss the future of quantum theory. By this time one thing was certain: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory had triumphed and challenges to it had mostly died off.
This allowed physicists to focus on a different kind of problem. At this point in time …read more
