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Making The Atomic Bomb
The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II.
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The Trinity Test Site
The Trinity test site in New Mexico was the location where the first atomic bomb was exploded.
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The Manhattan Project
In 1945, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan killing as many as 220,000 people. But how did the US come to have such destructive weapons before anyone else?
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
Since 1940, the United States nuclear weapons arsenal has had high environmental, public, and moral costs for the entire world; they were enumerated in a recent study.
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The Atomic Bomb and its Beginnings
Tracing the process that transpired in the invention of the Atomic Bomb, the "Project Manhattan."
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Truman's Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Historians cite several reasons that may have played a part in the dropping of the atomic bombs, but President Truman remained steadfast in his defense of using them.
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Atomic Policies and Early Cold War Crises
Despite Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949, early Cold War crises were frequently diffused when the U.S. threatened to use the bomb in several Asian conflicts.
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Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard
Mankind's greatest atomic power was harnessed through the invention of the nuclear reactor by two physicists, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard.
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Frederick Reines - Co-Discoverer of the Neutrino
Frederick Reines casts a long shadow on elementary particle physics, as an early participant in the Manhattan Project, as co-discoverer of the neutrino, as founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, and as co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.
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The Secret Science of World War II
In 1942, a "secret city" sprang up in a Tennessee valley, as Allied scientists raced to beat the Germans at developing enriched uranium to fuel the first atomic bomb.
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21st Century Plague -- Part II
The modern-day grim reaper revealed! The cause of today's mysterious, widespread, and little-known illness may be less sinister and more frightful than you imagined. Follow the story and discover the results of a long investigation.
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Linus Pauling - Molecular Biologist and Orthomolecular Scientist
Linus Pauling was the first person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes, one in Chemistry for his molecular bonding research, and the Peace Prize for his work protesting atmospheric testing of nuclear bombs.
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The Flight of the Enola Gay
August 6, 1945-8:15 a.m. local time-the age of atomic warfare begins. This article follows the flight of the Enola Gay, looks at the science and the politics that preceded her, and at the aftermath that came in her wake.
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Scientist Linus Pauling Biography
Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
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Shhh! It's a Secret Ring!
Who knew about the Rings of Power at the end of the Third Age? It requires some historical detective work to figure out who knew about them in the first place, who learned about them later, and who would have been around to forget about them.
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