| 单词 | atomic |
| 例句 | You might as well have asked them to name the atomic numbers of all the inert gases. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His on-the- scene reportage of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was incredible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Berg spent some time in London studying atomic physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He repeated Oliphant’s fears that the Nazis were counting on their own atomic bomb to decide the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Soviet atomic bomb project was moving ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Known as "front-line winged rockets," each of these missiles contained a warhead equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was entitled ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’—the revolution being Rutherford’s revolution, which had led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Both contained thorough reports on atomic bomb design. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The last hope that something might postpone our returning to the outside world was extinguished on August 6 when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Pash had picked up enough physics to know he was looking at the heart of Germany’s atomic research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One, the Germans had not come close to building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To take a recent example, historians are still debating whether blueprint copying or idea diffusion contributed more to Russia’s building of an atomic bomb. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compton estimated the American lead on the atomic bomb at no more than six years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then, the atomic bombs would continue to fall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How had they built an atomic bomb so quickly? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the Nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Bullies couldn’t pelt me with spitballs, give me atomic wedgies, or pummel me by the bike rack after school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, Oppenheimer displayed the peculiar combination of personal charm and intellectual magnetism that would make him so effective a leader of the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If so, he had again Linus Pauling with his atomic models. accomplished a feat of extraordinary significance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The next day is like someone has dropped an atomic bomb in our house. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The next day the Oak Ridge directors gathered to hear his findings, but right before the meeting an army colonel warned Feynman not to discuss any secret information about how the atomic bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was already at work tightening the model on its support stands so that he could read off the atomic coordinates. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Hiskey explained that he and other scientists were “working with desperate haste” to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Using this, Soviet scientists immediately began building their first atomic weapon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Germans wanted heavy water that badly, he figured, they must be using it in their atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, if an atomic bomb could be built, it would be Truman’s job to decide how to use it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Franck would observe later, they were uneasy that the government’s interest in atomic energy might begin and end with its effectiveness as a weapon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “My own feeling is that this political activity of many of our atomic scientists is unfortunate in many ways,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Each detonation was followed by a brief atomic light show, and then the blast would dissipate harmlessly against the shield. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In this cave, Heisenberg had been trying to build an atomic pile, similar to the one made by Enrico Fermi on the squash court in Chicago. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s trolling for government funds took place against the backdrop of a fierce battle in Washington over legislation to bring atomic energy under civilian control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula is an immense atomic nucleus, about the size of Manhattan, spinning thirty times a second. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The "report" mentioned in this decrypted message described a crucial step in building an atomic bomb. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was the father of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosives would blast the plutonium together at tremendous speed, creating a critical mass and setting off a chain reaction— and an atomic explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The McMahon Bill excluded the military from control of atomic energy, except as the technology was directly applicable to weapons, propulsion, and other military needs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Plutonium, they discovered, will fission even faster than U-235, so it could also be used for building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As scientists, we deplore the use to which a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless Japan surrenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then came Truman’s announcement that the Americans had dropped an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As a reward he was put in charge of the atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ku’oosh would have looked at the dismembered corpses and the atomic heat-flash outlines, where human bodies had evaporated, and the old man would have said something close and terrible had killed these people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The race to build the atomic bomb was on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Bush acknowledged privately that most atomic physics went “over my head.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Right before the Cultural Revolution, the picture had been of a huge mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion, with a tiny big-nosed American trembling in the corner. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves wanted to know the names of the most brilliant German physicists—the ones most likely to succeed in giving Hitler an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Heisenberg’s belief that Germany would lose was another piece of evidence suggesting that Hitler was not about to unleash atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was arranged that as soon as we had a set of atomic coordinates, we would have Todd come over. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “What if the enemy should get an atomic bomb before we did!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Truman wanted to know that the United States had a working atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the practical details piled up in his mind, Conant, who had come to Chicago still imbued with the skepticism about atomic weaponry prevailing in Bush’s circle, finally began to reconsider. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Oppenheimer’s office on the Berkeley campus, they began designing the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed also that water consisted of seven parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen, and so he gave oxygen an atomic weight of seven. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There he would make an even greater mark on science by taking on the core question of atomic structure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I’m a little worried that an atomic bomb might drop on it,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z If Danny sounded a little snippy, you have to realize that his bar mitzvah was coming up, and he was more terrified of his bar mitzvah than an atomic bomb. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, two American atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then there was the presence at the lab of James Franck, a German physicist of unassailable reputation who had devoted a great deal of careful thought to the social and political implications of atomic energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No, regular bomb. Only two atomic bomb. The other in Nagasaki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Army to take over the atomic bomb project—code named the Manhattan Project, because its first offices were located in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just one. I don’t really understand it. On the ship they said it had to do with an atom. That’s why it’s called an ‘atomic bomb.’” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For the physicists of the atomic bomb program, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, complicated the moral and ethical issues connected with the device they had invented. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was going to be a big atomic war on Earth in about two years, and he didn’t want to be here when it happened. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was like dropping an atomic bomb on a town,” said former mayor Hank Avery, and the explosion was felt in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z You cannot explain the behavior of matter—why gold gleams; why hydrogen combusts with oxygen—without invoking the atomic nature of matter. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The development of the cyclotron was begun several years before these discoveries on faith that the availability of controlled atomic projectiles within the laboratory would lead to important scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the vacuum created by the long transition to civilian control of atomic energy, Lawrence and his lab prospered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Americans had not yet “broken the atomic secret” and did not know if they would “beat the Nazis” to the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The snapshot was fated to become a historical artifact, for within a year, these same men would come together again—as leaders of America’s effort to create the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fountain pens from Paris, chess sets from Iceland, atomic clocks from Austria, jewelry from Yugoslavia, masks from Burma. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Since Hiroshima, there had been more than 190 atomic and thermonuclear tests in the atmosphere, underground, and at sea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Allies were finally winning the war—but Hitler could still turn it around by winning the race for the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Preliminary experiments,” he wrote, “indicate that there are probably no serious difficulties in the way of obtaining protons having high enough speeds to be useful for studies of atomic nuclei.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Progress on the atomic pile gave reason for optimism, but Fermi—unhappily relocated to Chicago on Compton’s orders—was still building only prototypes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Besides, his number one worry was to build an atomic bomb before Hitler did. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't quite like stepping into a military ambush, or being on the front lines in Spain, or witnessing the aftermath of an atomic bomb, but the atmosphere around me was definitely hostile. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But the question remained: How close was Hitler to getting an atomic bomb? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had no idea that anything was going on in regard to atomic energy in the United States.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the documents that circulated at Fort Monroe was an army plan to be executed in the case of an atomic attack. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hanako had no idea how this would protect anyone from a bomb, especially an atomic bomb like the one that had destroyed Hiroshima. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My father has noticed an ad in the paper, for an atomic radiation monster insect movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Truman would order an atomic attack "if it became necessary." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Being you is not a gratifying experience at the atomic level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On my right was what I judged to be an atomic cannon. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z While they had dinner, Fuchs told Gold that the atomic bomb was being designed at a place called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a cutting or fission of atomic nuclei occurs in nuclear weapons and conventional nuclear power plants, although it is not carbon that is split. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Soviets were going to get an atomic bomb any time in the near future, they were going to have to steal it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was the first bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivanov then asked Eltenton what he knew about atomic bomb research being done at the University of California, Berkeley. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some talk as to whether there were cameras on board, looking down at the United States, and I heard one newscaster wonder out loud if maybe an atomic bomb might be aboard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Stalin wanted his own atomic bomb— and he wanted it quickly. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron in early 1932 posed questions about atomic structure and behavior that could not be fully processed without an understanding of chemistry in addition to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Admittedly a few of the atomic contacts were still too close for comfort, but, after all, the fiddling had just begun. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Why can’t we just put our energy into not having any atomic bombs?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then he gave Gold a packet of papers, “a report,” Fuchs later said, “summarizing the whole problem of making an atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Would the United States be more likely to use atomic bombs, knowing no one else could strike back? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If? said his wife slowly, watching the sky, “there’s no atomic war. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He relished the fame, but was terrified by the thought of what he had helped create—a world with atomic weapons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, Bush had received an unequivocal endorsement of the idea that an atomic bomb could be developed in time to influence the course of a war he knew was coming. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like I hadn't just dropped the atomic bomb of secrets. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb exploded with the force of twenty thousand tons of TNT. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If only we could get hold of a German atomic physicist,” said Samuel Goudsmit, “we could soon find out what the rest of them were up to.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The October 1933 conference, which was devoted specifically to “the structure and properties of the atomic nucleus,” was the seventh in the series founded by the Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1911. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Except for one thing: It was a key ingredient in the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our principle concern,” he explained, “was to keep information and atomic scientists from falling into the hands of the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our leaders all told us that those atomic bombs were needed to end the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilkins had followed in Rutherford’s wake, studying atomic physics and radiation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their task was to choose the most effective method for producing the fissionable fuel for an atomic bomb from among five options, none of which was appreciably better than the others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even more distressing to Flerov was the idea of a German atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a purely natural process happening at the atomic level. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off, one after another. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Oppie was attempting to place before the committee his “profound” thoughts about the future of atomic weaponry, including what he called “the superbomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Another philosophy vied with the atomic theory, and instead of posing such bizarre concepts as the infinite vacuum, it turned the universe into a cozy nutshell. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If he heard anything that led him to believe Heisenberg was close to developing an atomic bomb, Berg’s orders were to take the man hors de combat. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z News of the atomic bomb quickly reached Joseph Stalin, the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union, at his headquarters in the Kremlin, in Moscow's Red Square. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And if the Germans learned how seriously the Americans were working on an atomic bomb, they’d surely double their own efforts. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin was screaming for the bomb, and Soviet scientists still needed more information from Los Alamos—they needed final reports on how the atomic bombs had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been trying to create a chain reaction in uranium—the first step on the road to an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But suppose an atomic bomb was really coming down, right on top of Camillo Junior High?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She did not think the French should have tested atomic weapons in Algeria, of course, but she did not understand why it mattered enough for Balewa to break off diplomatic relations with France. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Thus, the atomic theory required that the universe be filled with emptiness—an infinite void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There he was immersed in an effort to produce high-energy protons to probe the atomic nucleus, using his balky Tesla coils and Van de Graaff generators. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The building is three stories of solid brick with long windows on the first and second floors that have solid steel shutters that could be closed in case of atomic bomb blasts, riots, or invasion. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z When Fuchs’s report reached Laboratory Number 2 near Moscow, it was read eagerly by Igor Kurchatov, lead physicist of Stalin’s atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This was a tough task, since Soviet agents didn’t know which American scientists were working on the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Soviets were prepared to move on from the atomic to the Super on their own, they might well beat the Americans to the prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All three powers merely continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He took first shot and killed about thirty of mine with an atomic bomb. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were determined to find, if we could, some effective way of demonstrating the power of an atomic bomb without loss of life that would impress Japans warlords. If only this could be done!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I traveled all over the country,” he said, “talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic energy enterprise.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Alsos mission’s job was to follow close behind advancing Allied forces in Europe, searching for any scraps of information about the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought destruction at close range with incendiary bombs, and they released annihilation—and a new, modern fear—with the atomic bombs they delivered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “We were truly in the dark then about their progress in atomic develop- ment,” Groves later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What if Americans succeeded in building atomic bombs and they were the only ones to have them? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler was about to be crushed—unless he could pull out an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had brought an atomic radio along, strapped to his wrist. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was on its way to building the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Tibbets learned the basics of how the atomic bomb would work and approximately how powerful the explosion might be. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like Mr. Petrelli had said: Even if atomic bombs had started raining down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We might contemplate a separate creation of each atomic species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, at different times, his wicked tricks included everything from atomic ray guns to sulfur and brimstone. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But that wouldn’t stop the Soviet Union from building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt in every part of me, humming and whirring at the atomic level, that she was changing me. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He recorded the moment in his journal, leavening his relief with the one overriding concern that had lent urgency to the work of all the atomic scientists of those years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Rittner told him the news: The Americans had just dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were quickly convinced that an atomic bomb had exploded somewhere in the Soviet Union, probably on the morning of August 29. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a few months before, he’d told a reporter, “Our atomic monopoly is like a cake of ice melting in the sun.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than two years later, they would come together again, this time as the civilian leadership of the atomic bomb program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The next day, right after lunch recess, the atomic bomb sirens wailed again in Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The bottom line: Oppenheimer now had to figure out a whole new design for an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If things work out they hope to establish three atomic research and atom bomb depots on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was obvious to him that an atomic bomb might be possible, it was also obvious to everyone else in the global community of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Having been upbraided by Cockcroft for the Rad Tab’s publication of atomic research in 1940, Ernest soon accommodated himself to the demands of military secrecy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Americans continued shipping weapons to the Soviets, but the atomic bomb remained a secret. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Back on Tinian, the second atomic bomb was being assembled even as the world was learning about the first,” remembered Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the atomic war comes we’ll all die and when UFO people arrive they’ll dig us up and study our culture.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If the atomic bomb could shock Japan into giving up, it had to be used. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The T-shirt inside had the word “Freddie” above the box from the periodic table that contains the atomic symbol Hg. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if the bomb succeeded, the demand for fundamental research on atomic energy would only increase, though it would be likely focused on more and better weapons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Anyone who says that, with the means at present at our disposal and with our present knowledge we can utilize atomic energy, is talking moonshine.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their goal was to figure out the basics of how an atomic bomb might work, and what materials would be needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the decade wore on and they delved more deeply into the intricacies of atomic structure, their picture of the natural world grew only murkier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-l’s and V-2’s late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “The capture of this material,” Groves reported, “would seem to remove definitely any possibility of the Germans making any use of an atomic bomb in this war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not escaped into biology only to find it personally as Objectionable as physics, with its atomic consequences. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z What made this such a serious crisis was that Oak Ridge might be able to produce enough U-235 for one atomic bomb by the middle of 1945. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1923, the tenth anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model, physicists were questioning its general applicability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Juggling to show how atomic particles and molecules work?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The men climbed into the car and continued their search for the perfect place to build an atomic bomb lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cohen’s tissue box held Hall’s handwritten report, with detailed plans and sketches of an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So the first real hero of the atomic age, if not the first personage on the scene, was Ernest Rutherford. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So scientists knew that if they could cause a fast enough chain reaction, they might be able to build atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Truman also delivered a sterner warning to Stalin: The president sent a fleet of B-29 bombers to bases in England, the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This was a shocking conclusion, but the indivisible kernels of matter in atomic theory got around the problem of Zeno’s paradoxes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was busy recruiting scientists for Los Alamos—but that didn’t mean he knew for sure an atomic bomb was technically possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1942 and 1943, the uncertain course of the war pushed doubts about building and using an atomic bomb to the background. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the tremor stopped, Camp Half-Blood looked like a wasteland after an atomic blast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The controlled release of atomic power has been demonstrated for the first time in history,” Fermi said of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the atomic bombing, if anything, just sharpened our worry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “The radio just went off the atomic beam. Every other world station’s gone. They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years. Now the air’s completely silent. It’ll probably remain silent.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew, for instance, that hydrogen was the lightest element, so he gave it an atomic weight of one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In Washington, Leslie Groves told Truman a third atomic bomb “should be ready for delivery on the first suitable weather after 17 or 18 August.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, what would the best weapon be that a Martian could use against Earth Men with atomic weapons? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Very occasionally, a passing neutrino will bang into one of the atomic nuclei in the water and produce a little puff of energy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Survivors of Hiroshima began to develop leukemia only three years after the atomic bombing, and there is now reason to believe the latent period may be considerably shorter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It carried America’s secret weapon, a single atomic bomb. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And with good reason—he was helping British scientists figure out how to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Germans were about to finish an atomic bomb, would Heisenberg really believe the war was lost? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These included America’s supposed head start on the rest of the world in atomic weaponry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As Stimson recalled the moment, “it was considered exceedingly probable that we should by midsummer have successfully detonated the first atomic bomb . . . What had begun as a well-founded hope was now developing into a reality.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Chicago meeting was the watershed moment in the atomic bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Einstein quickly realized that with atomic bombs, Adolf Hitler would be absolutely unstoppable. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The bill ceded a large measure of control over atomic research to the military. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As befit the man who had challenged Ernest Rutherford’s disparagement of atomic power as “moonshine” back in 1933, Ernest Lawrence’s first instinct was to take the news of fission as vindication. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower installed him as his personal advisor on atomic energy in March and appointed him to the AEC chairmanship three months later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Later the same day, Truman announced in a nationwide radio address that he had instructed the AEC to “continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mother and I watched him, expecting the dreaded atomic blowup. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And atomic bombs made future wars look even more hopeless. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z President Truman had announced that an “atomic explosion’’ had been detected in the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner—the ones who’d triggered the Manhattan Project by convincing Albert Einstein to warn President Roosevelt of the danger of atomic bombs—came to watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So while Francis continued thinking about the meaning of the X-ray diagram, I began to assemble the various atomic models into several chains, each several nucleotides in length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It seemed to Oppenheimer that the opportunity to keep atomic weapons under control via international agreement was slipping away, perhaps never to be recovered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “An atomic bomb was an intricate device, still in the developmental stage,” Compton recounted the conversation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If Hitler got his hands on atomic bombs, that would be the end of the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue metal closed over it and was welded tightly by the tiny atomic flare. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Instead, I was just the lone digger of a fake atomic bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Provide us with atomic weapons in the shortest possible time. It will remove a great danger from us.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The kernel, Rutherford concluded, was the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The next big question: Was it necessary to test the atomic bomb to make sure it actually worked? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think that any of us really believed that Leonid Brezhnev was sitting in the deep, dark rooms of the Kremlin, plotting to drop an atomic bomb on Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z At a brief orientation, Hall was told he’d be helping to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept my head down and cleared off all the last things except the big blue-flowered platter in the middle of the table, which I couldn’t reach without crossing into Father’s atomic danger zone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he got up and started pacing, thinking about what little he knew about fission and the possibility of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When the war began, British scientists recruited him to help with a secret war-related project—the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After spending a few days studying atomic bomb physics, Hall went to work with a team led by the Italian-born physicist Bruno Rossi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the lab Edward Teller showed him a design for a far more powerful atomic weapon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Theoretical breakthrough that it was, complementarity did nothing to resolve the paradoxical results emanating from the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hiding in the smoke helps about as much as scrunching under a desk during an atomic bomb attack. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Instead he told her about Henrietta’s cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they’d gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For President Truman and his national security advisers, the situation demanded only one answer: to build more and bigger atomic bombs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Within a few days, he proposed a solution: the protons were disintegration products not of the targets but of the deutons themselves, which were “exploding” upon contact with the atomic nuclei. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the end, science was going to dictate the course of the NDRC’s program, and the science of the atomic nucleus was on Lawrence’s side. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bush and Conant had been skeptical about an atomic weapon in part because of the reluctance of eminent physicists to commit themselves to the work not only in word but deed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1947, she warned of the dangers of atomic warfare and campaigned for global efforts to ban nuclear weapons. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What Haukelid did not yet know was that a remote factory perched on the side of a cliff in Norway was the key to Germany’s top-secret atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t the world be safer if a second major power also knew how to build atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1949 the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, using plans stolen by spies from American labs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “A few of the atomic contacts were still too close for comfort,” they admitted—but perhaps these would be fixed by additional fiddling. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The critical mass of plutonium would not stay together long enough to create a massive atomic explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The commission’s most important bequest from the Pentagon’s nuclear energy apparatus was the Manhattan District’s network of atomic labs, which Groves had kept intact after the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Again the wars were ‘inevitable’ and this time there were atomic weapons, so that mankind could no longer live through its torment to the inevitable wasting away of inevitability.—And positronic robots came. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Goldwater called Johnson “soft on communism,” and when asked what he would do if elected, Goldwater suggested he might use atomic bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The AEC charter established that in the case of a disagreement with the director of one of the atomic labs, the commission could remove the director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hiskey suddenly found himself drafted into the army and shipped to a remote military base in the Northwest Territories of Canada—far from atomic bomb secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If Einstein sounded the alarm about the danger of a German atomic bomb, President Roosevelt might just listen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The horizontal rows, meanwhile, arrange the chemicals in ascending order by the number of protons in their nuclei–what is known as their atomic number. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If Truman had any misgivings about using the atomic bomb, he kept them well buried. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence arrived in Belgium only a few weeks after he engaged in a minor dustup with Rutherford, at long range, over the prospects for useful energy from the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had unscrewed the chest plate of the nearest as he spoke, inserted the two-inch sphere that contained the tiny spark of atomic energy that was a robot’s life. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Einstein urged the government to start working closely with physicists to explore the possibilities of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Allies may have used a very powerful bomb, he said, but not a real atomic bomb, not a bomb based on the fission of uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul and Rex were horrified at what they saw where our two atomic bombs had fallen. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Had the neutron been isolated in the 1920s, they note, it is "very likely the atomic bomb would have been developed first in Europe, undoubtedly by the Germans." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z To Soviet physicists like Flerov, this made it vitally important that the Soviet Union develop its own atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold climbed onto a bus with the plans for an atomic bomb in his travel bag. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Ernest’s destiny to begin his career at a moment when physics had hit a brick wall in its understanding of the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That was the genesis of what would become one of the seminal documents of the atomic age, Albert Einstein’s message to Franklin Roosevelt, dated August 2, 1939. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Breaking up atomic nuclei, however, requires quite a lot of money and a generous supply of electricity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Hall said he was helping to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps organisms that float in dense planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic composition, except they might not have bones and therefore not need much calcium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This suggested that the atomic interior was an electromagnetic maelstrom buffeting the particle on his journey, not a serene, solid pudding. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Americans and British were also eager to learn exactly how much these German scientists had figured out about building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just thinking about what an extraordinary thing it was to be driving along there in just an ordinary car,” remembered Morrison, “and yet we were carrying the core of the first atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowledge of the atomic bomb was available on a strictly need-to-know basis. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, a second plane took off from Tinian and dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did they use the word uranium in connection with this atomic bomb?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They focused on the subject Churchill called “overwhelmingly the most important”—the race to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her about our atomic bomb drills and about our town and about The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Arrests, indictments, and a torrent of media coverage flooded the case of the atomic spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Probably, German physicists were already working on an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The goal was to isolate the Germans, to keep them from even mentioning the words atomic bomb in public. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear, certainly: she was just three years old when a B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, forever linking the name Hiroshima with annihilation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This one addressed the “scope and program of future work in the field of atomic energy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The chemistry of an atom depends only on the number of electrons, which equals the number of protons, and which is called the atomic number. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scribbling graphs and formulas on the blackboard as he spoke, Serber began to explain the physics of an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His words were carefully chosen, but the implication was clear: America’s monopoly over the atomic bomb was over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He decided to pour all his energy into beating Hitler in the race for the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I spent some time in preliminary calculations about the construction and performance of atomic bombs,” he said, “and became increasingly excited about the prospects.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Like they did with the Manhattan Project. When they were creating the atomic bomb.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Physicists could certainly design more powerful atomic bombs, he argued. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After the reconstituted S-l committee finally got atomic bomb planning under way, its members met at the exclusive Bohemian Grove in California in September 1942, with Lawrence as host. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s scientists had not yet built an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all too easy to fudge a successful series of atomic contacts so that, while each looked almost acceptable, the whole collection was energetically impossible. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Science, meanwhile, was about to get a new age of its own–the atomic one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Only after the bomb was dropped did Lawrence reveal to Fosdick what the latter recalled as “the vital part played by the Rockefeller Foundation in the development of the atomic bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Inside was what Kurnakov described as a “neatly written report” outlining the basic scientific principles of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the war against Japan, U.S. air forces embraced this practice with an almost gleeful vengeance, pulverizing 64 cities prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Memory loss in the garden of violence: What happens when war can be distilled into a rallying cry? 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z In the early 1940s Russia’s station chiefs in the West were ordered to gather evidence on any atomic work undertaken by American scientists. In This True-Life Spy Story, It’s America vs. Russia, the Early Years 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z An accompanying editorial note stated, “United States scientists say the atomic bomb will not have any lingering aftereffects in the devastated area.” The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z A public intellectual with a flair for the dramatic, he directed the top-secret lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, taking the atomic bomb from theoretical possibility to terrifying reality in an impossibly short timeline. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z A groundbreaking report on how six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Like radio waves, TV signals, and atomic energy, whatever powers and steers the flying saucer remains a strange and unseen mystery. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z And in 1942 General Leslie Groves, the man tasked by Roosevelt with building an atomic bomb in America, chose him to be the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Having described the physical nature of our world and beyond, from the atomic to the intergalactic, in “The Body” he now turns inward to explain — in his lucid, amusing style — what we’re made of. Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z His and Kuznick's theory, then, is that the atomic bombing of civilians was aimed, not at securing Japanese surrender, but at shocking and awing Stalin. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z And just before and during World War II, he worked as an American spy, helping to uncover atomic secrets in Europe. Summer 2018 Movie Release Schedule 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z My feeling is that his mutation was down to a classic atomic‑age lab accident. Russia’s new movie superhero: a bear called Arsus that looks like Putin 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The bomb looms large for these children of the atomic age: one brags about his nuclear button, the other consecrates the Trinity test as the original sin of the twentieth century. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Yamaguchi, who died of cancer last year aged 93, was on business in Hiroshima when it was destroyed by an atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Stephen Fry shelves filming in Japan after atomic bomb jokes outcry 2011-02-03T14:29:40Z We’re not talking here about the atomic bomb — but suicides, nervous breakdowns, manic depression and bipolar disorder. An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z By creating a parallel narrative with a mother and her daughter in Japan, Ms. Silvia explores the atomic weapons program through a personal lens. The Bay Citizen: Showcases for Locally Made Documentaries 2010-10-08T05:05:00Z By midafternoon the sun was scorching and the atomic pop-up cafe was running low on water bottles. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z The edge of a knife is a carefully tapered compression of metal layers, so the thwacking sends the atomically aligned edge into disarray, or worse — it can chip tiny divots into the metal. The very best way to sharpen your knives 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Called to testify before a Senate committee on atomic energy, he resorted to claiming that radiation poisoning “is a very pleasant way to die.” The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Peterborough 1:36pm@hubbackk You may be correct - it could be that a few atoms of plutonium have made it into our bodies from atomic bomb tests - I have never thought about that before! Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z As a junior at Princeton University, in 1976, Phillips bet that he could design an atomic bomb for one of his physics classes. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Of course, Britain did not drop the bomb, but it did play a key role in the evolution of the practice of bombing civilians, which ultimately led to the atomic bombings. Japan is right to be angry at QI atom bomb joke 2011-02-08T15:30:00Z “You could call him one of the very few atomic reactors in classical music, in a positive way,” said Michael Haefliger, the executive and artistic director of the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z “They said, ‘Bear in mind you don’t have an atomic bomb and we do,’” he added, “and this is what the consequences will be like if you make the wrong move!” Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The series, created by Sam Shaw, looks behind the scenes of the top secret Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic weapons for the United States during World War II. 'CSI' alum William Petersen is joining 'Manhattan' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Pacifism lies strong in Japan, a nation devastated by World War II, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ukrainian opera singer in Japan prays for peace in melody 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The track Mon Raymond is, however, unequivocally dedicated to her husband, and casts him as a pirate and an atomic bomb. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z Throughout their ordeal Hiroshima’s survivors were “too busy or too weary or too badly hurt to care that they were the objects of the first great experiment in the use of atomic power.” Well read 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Jemima Kirke, who would sweat charisma if she would deign to sweat at all, has always been underused, and linking her with the show’s other atomic fireball, Adam Driver, makes a stupid amount of sense. 'Girls' Recap: Hannah Horvath Insults the Rainbow 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z The life-size images evoke that morning in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb instantly killed as many as 70,000 people. One worked on the A-bomb. The other was a victim. How their grandsons now create art together. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But the book also is structured around the personal accounts of the many times that Williams' or his editor father's lives intertwined with the start of the atomic age. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z Those questions haunted Ms. Silvia as she dug into her mother’s background as a Navy scientist assigned to work at atomic testing sites in the Nevada desert. The Bay Citizen: Showcases for Locally Made Documentaries 2010-10-08T05:05:00Z The Coronado renders the sun a haunting atomic red as it slips into fleeting view among clouds. Arizona’s Kitt Peak Observatory offers a perfect sight-line to the stars 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The anthropocene — whether it began with agriculture, the colonization of the West, the Industrial Revolution or the atomic bomb — was born of human ingenuity. ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Was he seeking assistance with Germany’s atomic weapons program, advice on delaying it, or absolution for its moral consequences? Piecing together a mysterious wartime meeting in Rubicon's 'Copenhagen' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z His masterplan is to profit from the economic chaos that will ensue after he has detonated an atomic bomb in Fort Knox, making America's gold reserves radioactive for 58 years. My favourite Bond film: Goldfinger 2012-10-02T16:02:45Z He came upon the bottle and other relics of the atomic blast in a local museum while on an assignment to photograph the reconstruction of the city. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z It also traces ideological battle lines that remained visible well into the atomic age as the enemy shifted from Tokyo to Moscow. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer” is Nolan’s prestige movie based on “American Prometheus,” a biography of Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the Manhattan Project, which during World War II produced the first atomic bombs. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Because of his valuable work he was sent in 1943 to the secret American project at Los Alamos to help create an atomic bomb. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z As Tokyo newspapers warn citizens of an impending attack, a woman on the subway bemoans Godzilla’s appearance: “I barely escaped the atomic bomb at Nagasaki – and now this.” ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z "Countdown to Zero" is a 90-minute documentary written and directed by Lucy Walker that explores the history of the atomic bomb and today's threat of nuclear proliferation. Jordan's Queen Noor goes Hollywood -- for a cause 2010-06-12T01:01:00Z Her job is nothing less than to convince him to return to England to work on the atomic bomb. 'Trapeze': Walking a high wire of danger in World War II France 2012-05-30T21:41:11Z It's no wonder he became emaciated during the development of the atomic bomb. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Advertisement Advertisement The Rosenberg case’s focus on the theft of atomic bomb secrets overshadowed the industrial and other military technology that American spies were accused of delivering to the Soviets. Bad Cheer: The Holiday Exchange Precipitating ‘Bridge of Spies’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Director J. Edgar Hoover, left, and Associate Director Clyde Tolson at a 1950 hearing about Dr. Klaus Fuchs, a British scientist accused of giving top atomic secrets to Russia. Books of The Times: Tim Weiner?s ?Enemies? and F.B.I. Counterintelligence 2012-03-14T21:09:12Z Hitler was gone, but the atomic bomb had introduced an existential threat of a kind we continue to face, and there was no guarantee of a happy ending. What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z What could he have created, what world would we live in today, if he had been able to hold feelings and logic, and the U.S. had never developed or dropped the atomic bomb? "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z She builds the very concept of history from her characters’ personal experience, at a virtually atomic level, while treating that experience as inseparable from myth and memory, from dream and fantasy. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Grass also called for "unhindered and permanent control of Israel's nuclear capability and Iran's atomic facilities through an international body." Nobel winner Grass: Israel a threat to world peace 2012-04-04T13:41:08Z We promise that there will be no atomic diagrams, no Latin, and no, Bill Nye won't be standing by your side in the kitchen. Here's how to emulsify anything 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z At intermission, I heard responses to the singers as orgasmic and atomic. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Would no atomic bombs have been used in World War II? Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z Oppenheimer said that after the explosive test of the atomic bomb, a quote from Hindu scripture came to mind: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t a Contest. But if It Were, Which Film Would Win? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki products of craft? Made by Hand in America: A New Book Tells the Story of Unsung Artisans 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Of the president’s curiosity about whether nuclear bombs might deter tropical storms, they write, “Trump’s plans to deal with Hurricane Dorian thankfully did not involve atomic warfare.” A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z With paintings and operas and a play about atomic scientists, oh my. Essential Arts & Culture: Fall arts preview, 'Blue Boy' gets T.L.C. and a contemporary 'Bacchae' at the Villa 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Don't miss the harrowing Maralinga sculpture about the British atomic bomb tests on Aboriginal lands in the early 1950s. Five Reasons to Visit Perth 2012-05-09T05:20:00Z The atomic blast killed his younger sister, and his father, a Buddhist priest, died of radiation-related illness a year later, prompting Ekuan to train briefly as a Buddhist monk in Kyoto. Design: Who Made That Soy-Sauce Dispenser? 2012-06-16T03:20:04Z It’s a little like being told that the human soul has a specific atomic weight. Museum of Food and Drink Takes a Look at Flavor 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Nagasaki residents, of course, didn’t know what had hit them and were confounded by the “atomic bomb sickness” that killed people who initially appeared to be uninjured. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The exhibition relied on a series of drawings by child survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, that had been commissioned in the 1950s by Mr. Tamotzu, a Japanese artist. On College Campuses, a New Role for Students: Museum Curator 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It asks the question: "What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs?" ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Justice League of Scientists 2012-09-28T17:30:17Z The synthesis she seeks is almost akin to atomic particle bonding. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z SAT Annual lantern floating ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z "Countdown to Zero," Lucy Walker's documentary about the evolution of the atomic bomb, is smart, swift and scary as hell. 'Countdown to Zero': A scary documentary about nuclear weaponry 2010-07-29T20:32:00Z The play’s atomic structure is founded on such theoretical insight. The astrophysicist's rom-com: 'Constellations' at the Geffen 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Gladwell argues that LeMay’s savage firebombing campaign succeeded, and that, combined with the two atomic bombs that followed, shortened the war. Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z When he was released in January 1941, Fuchs started working on Britain’s atomic bomb project — innocently called Tube Alloys. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z He centers the history of cinema in the Second World War and the Cold War, with references to the atomic bomb and the Holocaust. “The Image Book,” Reviewed: Jean-Luc Godard Confronts Cinema’s Depiction of the Arab World 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In a decade full of flying saucers and atomic age-inspired beasts, the scares in films like “Curse of Frankenstein” were often found in close-ups of the human face. Hammer Makes ?The Woman in Black? With Daniel Radcliffe 2012-01-27T23:30:09Z “Oppenheimer” isn’t the summer’s only work of popular culture in which atomic bombs detonate. ‘Cat Kid Comic Club’ Review: Tiny Frogs, Big Imaginations 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z They’re tearing up the air at New York City Center, where a pulsing reincarnation of Elizabeth Swados’s “Runaways” is testifying to the atomic power of adolescent angst. Review: Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The festival commissioned a collaboration by two ambient composers — Lustmord, who moonlights as a Hollywood sound designer, and the Norwegian electronic composer Biosphere — called Trinity; it’s inspired by atomic bomb tests. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z Apparently it's all to do with the universe and the planets and atomic structure and whatnot. Do Bj?rk's apps break new ground? 2011-03-17T18:07:20Z Several times it appeared U.S. efforts to develop an atomic bomb would be dropped as impossible. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z The West fears the work is a secret atomic weapons program, while Iran says it is purely peaceful. Iran sentences American to die for spying 2012-01-09T12:02:00Z With the energy of 1,500 atomic bombs, they whipped through southeastern Australia as if the whole area was made of paper. Out of Australia's flames 2010-07-31T10:00:00Z But the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported in November that it had evidence suggesting Iran had worked on designing an atomic bomb. EU bans Iranian oil, Tehran responds with threats 2012-01-23T12:51:00Z Development of the British atomic bomb took place here, but it was still a shock to see an obsolete nuclear bomb on the floor of the information center. Footsteps: Rambling With W. G. Sebald in East Anglia 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z In 2021 he wrote about visiting the Trinity site, where the first atomic bomb was exploded. Christopher Nolan and the Contradictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The Corman film of “Shop” was, like many horror and sci-fi flicks of the Eisenhower years, a fable of the atomic age, playing to a nation’s fears of science run amok. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff Feeds the Beast 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This novel enters the life of the scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “It reminds us that, in a way, atomic testing was a photographic event,” says Coolidge. A new book tells the story of the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- one business card at a time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Teenage rage, teenage desire and teenage confusion in one big atomic fireball. Perspective | The brutal distortion of XXXTentacion’s ‘Look at Me’ is changing the sound of the Hot 100 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z After the war and settled in England, she funneled highly classified material to the Soviets, including essential details for making the atomic bomb. Review | For your pandemic playlist: 3 new audiobooks that will whisk you away — for a few hours, anyway 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The painting of our family was done at the height of the atomic war scare of the 1950s. No Artists Outshine Others in This Egalitarian Collection 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z TUE Annual peace event honoring the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war and violence, with speakers, lantern-floating ceremony at dusk, 6 p.m. Seattle Art Fair, Umjoa Fest, and Naval Aviation Fly Day 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Pontecorvo was a communist, and it was no surprise when, five years later, the Soviets revealed that he had been working for them, allegedly on peaceful applications of atomic power, since his defection. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Frankenstein’s monster illustrated our trepidation about untethered science; Godzilla was spawned from the fear of the atomic age; werewolves feed into an instinctual panic over predation and man’s detachment from nature. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z The reasons given for the atomic bomb are, in my opinion, nefarious and disingenuous. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z He lived through, and occasionally witnessed, important events at the beginning of the atomic age, he wrote. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z Japan's undertook a daunting rebuilding effort after the 1945 atomic attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only active deployments of nuclear weapons to date. UN peace messenger Douglas remembers Japan 2011-03-24T16:34:12Z Predicting he would be branded an anti-Semite, as he has been in full measure, Grass named Israel and called its atomic power a threat to “an already fragile world peace.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z People seem surprised to hear that two cities were hit by atomic bombs. 2010-01-22T14:18:00Z Its broader sense, as evidenced in its roots, can be used thusly: “A pandemic fear of atomic war.” Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Several are directly related to the atomic theme. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z For food, they snack on nuclear power plants and other sources of radiation, chomping atomic warheads as if they were Twinkies. Anthony Lane: “Godzilla” Review 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Not unlike the atomic bomb, she radiates destruction, either damaging or being damaged by almost everyone around her. In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z After they depart, the abbey, which has stood for nearly two thousand years, is demolished by an atomic bomb. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Public mistrust of atomic power remains high, however, and Funahashi says he will keep making "Nuclear Nation" films to show the human side of the nuclear equation. Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Recent reads included a biography of Malcolm X and another of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z So Hanks knew little of that campaign, except that it began with Pearl Harbor and ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z The feeling of encroaching apocalypse became acute when, early one morning in 1951, a trembling of the ground and a glow on the horizon signalled an atomic test in the Nevada desert. Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Though the bioengineer works at a site best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, he is spending much of this summer analyzing something less hazardous – a special hybrid beer. One woman's quest for healthy beer gets a boost from the lab that birthed the atomic bomb 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He doesn’t allow for the idea that both versions could coexist, that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was one of several factors, along with the two atomic bombings, that finally did the trick. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z Girl power is atomic in “The Wolves,” the incandescent portrait of a soccer team at the Duke on 42nd Street. Review: For ‘The Wolves,’ the Goal Is to Win and to Be Heard 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z In a dystopian world nearly 40 years after the second world war, what remains of Earth has been split into three superpowers after an atomic war — Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The subtext of horror today is not the Red Menace or the atomic age, but racism, Islamophobia and ham-fisted greed. Conspiracy theories about Obama spun out to their wackiest sci-fi conclusions 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He didn't even know there was an atomic bomb being built. Oliver Stone tackles modern history in new series 2012-11-21T21:52:08Z Avedon was of a generation that endured the threat of the atomic bomb. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Scientists involved in developing the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project in 1945 — including Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists — created the Doomsday Clock in 1947. Doomsday Clock 2022: What is it and what do the numbers mean? 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z This means that, as we enter the atomic world, we must abandon common sense, and talk instead of wave functions and electron states. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z These archetypes of conceptual painting, accompanied, too, by Kawara’s nearly unknown early prints of atomic bomb victims, have never appeared more operatic and ghoulish than they do here. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z He was in the Nevada desert in 1952 to shoot atomic bomb tests and documented the effect of the tests on tanks positioned in the desert. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It was just after Sputnik was launched, and tourists were gathering here to watch atomic blasts at the Nevada Test Site. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z Amanda Castro’s flinty Anita turns in a suitably atomic “America,” with its zestful feud over which island — Puerto Rico or Manhattan — is best. Crossing Cultures, and Genres, at the Glimmerglass Festival 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in New Mexico, the state’s atomic legacy is viewed differently. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Japan became the first nation to suffer an atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, at Hiroshima. Japan TV cancels show of K-pop's BTS over atom bomb t-shirt furor 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “I didn’t expect it to be gung-ho atomic weapons,” he said in a telephone interview. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z For instance, a test supposedly proved that unkempt homes were more likely to burn up in an atomic blast than well-kept ones. ‘The Bomb’ Helps Return Nukes to the TV Spotlight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It included a 1955 Manhattan cityscape whose slow overexposure made the sunset look like Hiroshima at the moment of its atomic destruction. William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z It began in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts, when U.S. officials advised Americans to "leave all problems surrounding the bomb to political, scientific, and military leaders — the nuclear priesthood." Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z It must have seemed that way to the former owner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the famed physicist who helped produce the first atomic bomb and who later lost his security clearance in a political witch hunt. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z I kept teaching, with videos and interactive applets depicting atomic interactions. The gig economy goes to class 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The government had detonated atomic bombs at a test site in Nevada but that was more than a hundred miles away. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z This, the series implies, might explain why Truman dropped atomic bombs on Japan — not to end the war but to flex his muscles and intimidate Stalin, as he himself had been intimidated as a boy. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z The novel is, in part, about the exploitation of the Rosenbergs, who were executed in 1953 for espionage, accused of spying for Russia as it tried to build itself an atomic bomb. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z That Saturday — later known as Black Saturday — 400 separate fires raged, which claimed 173 lives and generated the equivalent heat of 500 atomic bombs. Untangling the Story of a Deadly Blaze and ‘The Arsonist’ Who Lit It 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z He was haunted by memories from his teenage years of the devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mr. Komatsu told the Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri in 2006. Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 80 2011-08-10T16:25:10Z A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Barack Obama in 2016. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The syrup turned the rice an atomic pink hue. An Indian Food Writer Breaks Free From Tradition 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Mushroom cloud T-shirts and other atomic swag could be had at another. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Far too many forged atomic toughness, took up arms as panacea, let bullets prove their tensile strength. Growing up black in the whitest city in America 2014-03-17T23:00:00Z The book, "Command and Control," examines the efforts of the military, since the atomic era began during World War II, to prevent nuclear weapons from being stolen, sabotaged or detonated by accident. ArtsBeat: 'Fast Food Nation' Author Will Return With Book on Nuclear Weapons 2012-10-05T21:22:44Z "We consider the park a sacred place where we pray for the victims of the atomic bombings," he said. No more 'Pokemon Go' at Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Its measures reinforce those imposed by the United States as the West tries to force Tehran to return to talks before it produces enough nuclear material for an atomic bomb. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z Set in a top-secret lab in Los Alamos, "Manhattan" is a fictionalized retelling of the U.S. race to build the atomic bomb during World War II. Premiere of WGN America's 'Manhattan' draws in 1.8 million viewers 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The premise of “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic, is straightforward: tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Who’s Who in ‘Oppenheimer’: A Guide to the Real People and Events 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Yet, in its entirety, “Crossroads” might be seen as a metaphor for the way in which an astounding force – the atomic bomb – dispersed and steadily spread until it enveloped everything in sight. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a program to build atomic bombs, hoping to defeat a Germany that was potentially a year or more ahead in the deadly race. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Because protons and electrons were unknown in Mendeleev’s day, he arranged his elements in order of increasing atomic mass. Russian scientist created a chemistry tool with room for discovery 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Yayoi Kusama turned 16 just a few months before two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, obliterating first Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Inside our bodies there are atoms and organs, and above us spaceships, “Wi-Fi vibes, radiation, atomic bombs pointed in your direction, drones.” In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Leavening the potentially one-note role of the blustering military officer in charge of the first atomic bomb test, Mr. Adams included a scene in which General Groves expresses concern about his weight. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z In real life, the German physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs worked at Los Alamos for part of the war and only confessed in 1950 to leaking atomic secrets to Moscow. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In 1979, decades before the Fukushima nuclear accident shone a spotlight on Japan’s atomic power industry, he illustrated a magazine exposé of worker exploitation at the facility, titled “Darkness at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.” Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The conclusion of the Pacific war with the detonation of two atomic bombs has also powerfully influenced how we view the entire campaign. Why America preferred to forget about the Pacific war ? until now 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z And then of course were the lingering horrors of what the Japanese called “atomic bomb disease.” 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z Mr. Shindo returned to the theme of atomic devastation in several other films. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z The heavy cruiser, which had just successfully delivered the components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to Tinian Island in a top-secret mission, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z On one end it is an atomic pit where an explosion has just occurred. Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" is a welcome respite from the infamy of the Trump administration 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z And earlier this summer, the network launched atomic bomb drama "Manhattan"--though, to a slightly smaller crowd than its predecessor. WGN America continues original programming with two new projects 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Sakuragochi gained international fame for his "Hiroshima Symphony", a tribute to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city. 'Beethoven of Japan' apologizes for 'causing trouble with my lies' 2014-03-07T04:37:48Z Filmed on location in New Mexico, the series is set in the 1940s and follows the lives of the men and women picked to work on the top-secret project that produced the atomic bomb. WGN America sets premiere date for 'Manhattan' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She and her husband, Pierre, discovered polonium and radium — she coined the word radioactivity — work which led to medical advances and the atomic bomb. ‘Radioactive’ Review: Marie Curie and the Science of Autonomy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Among Mr. Yergin’s fears is Iran possessing an atomic bomb and upsetting the balance of power in the Middle East. Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z At one point he accuses the Tenth Doctor: "You are the destroyer of worlds," which is almost identical to the phrase Robert Oppenheimer used when he exploded the first atomic bomb. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z It’s also odd that Mr. Monk adopts a vaguely atomic metaphor to describe Oppenheimer’s life. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z What he saw and duly filmed was the mushroom cloud of the second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki. Gustave Field obituary 2012-08-23T11:21:53Z The first was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb and victim of America's cold-war witch hunts. Best science books of 2012 2012-11-29T15:05:01Z Most great horror monsters are stand-ins for some cultural anxiety like fear in the atomic age or scientific overreach or racism. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Released as a 78 rpm disc on the RCA Victor label, the song links religion and atomic devastation with the “trouble and unrest brewing” on the far side of the Iron Curtain. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed in “Oppenheimer,” described the billowing blast in various ways. How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Army that whatever ineffective obfuscation occurred during the months following the atomic bombings resulted from the same old stuff — a mixture of authentic ignorance, reflexive secrecy and incompetent military spin. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Two sharply tailored suits were printed with the blurry outline of a human body, like the shadows permanently etched onto stone surfaces after an atomic blast — mushroom imagery of a different kind. Mushrooms and Speed at Alexander McQueen 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z On one hand, the book reads like a riveting novel as Wallace reveals the machinations and internal debates among the scientific community to devise a workable atomic bomb as quickly as possible. A Day-by-Day Re-Creation of Truman’s Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z After that date, U.S. atomic tests on Pacific atolls threw elevated levels of carbon-14 in the atmosphere, mangling the precision of carbon dating dead plants and animals. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The pictures depict horrific scenes from 6 August 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped from a US aircraft during World War Two. Hiroshima artworks to go on show 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s true for J. Robert Oppenheimer as he led the Manhattan Project team developing the atomic bomb. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “It struck my father that that would be a good vehicle for presenting the story of the people who were subjected to the atomic bomb,” Baird said. John Hersey, the Writer Who Let “Hiroshima” Speak for Itself 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Noir arose, say some analysts, as a reaction to the horrors of the war and the peril of an atomic postwar world when there was a sense that we had reached the end of days. A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Dr. Faust works in a big laboratory where the atomic bomb is under development. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z This two-hour documentary looks back at the development, detonation and aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, featuring the perspectives of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors who witnessed its catastrophic destruction. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Connected’ and the SpaceX Landing 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z They were top secret when built in the early 1950s to house the RAF's first atomic bomb, codenamed Blue Danube, using a special grit-free surface to prevent the risk of sparks. A-bomb store and monks' kitchen on risk list as threat to heritage grows 2012-10-11T23:01:03Z The bolt of lightning required to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity required to power the time machine was also, in one version, to have been generated by harnessing an atomic bomb. Michael J Fox on Back to the Future fans: ‘The most genuine people I’ve met’ 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z "I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb," he said. Rocker John Mellencamp likens Internet to A-bomb 2010-08-18T07:20:00Z It shows a family picnicking outside their idyllic home, which rests atop a giant atomic bomb teetering on the edge of cliff. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z One of the streets, Trinity Drive, is named after the Trinity test, when the world’s first atomic bomb exploded in 1945, some 200 miles to the south. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s a modern-day tale that starts with the young madame emerging from the ashes of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z “Fargo” was the example the show’s creators — novelists and longtime King obsessives who previously collaborated on the underrated atomic drama “Manhattan” — used when they pitched “Castle Rock” to Mr. Abrams. ‘Castle Rock’ Is a Stephen King Story That Isn’t Really a Stephen King Story 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In the lyrics she describes Raymond as "a stunner, atomic bomb material" and "complex, romantic but tactical." Singer Carla Bruni to tour France, U.S. to promote new album 2013-06-28T17:57:24Z SAT Program, lantern floating honoring the victims of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war and violence, 6-9 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-04T00:30:05Z Like the bomb, there was something atomic about psychedelics, too, synthesized by heedless scientists drunk on pure research, unlocking secrets to explode the world. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Paco segued to another nuclear-related fact: In the 1950s, the city promoted outdoor viewings of the atomic booms from the Nevada Test Site. Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z I still want this heat and muscle applied to meaningful drama, not atomic, orgasmic vocalism unleashed in a recital environment. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z His first assignment, in New Delhi, on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, was a highly technical exhibition that included a full-scale mock-up of the graphite reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The 2017 Showtime revival, “Twin Peaks: The Return,” gave them an even freer hand to experiment, resulting in one extraordinarily experimental episode that goes inside an atomic bomb test. 12 Great TV Series by Film Directors 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Environment Minister Gilad Erdan said the accord would help build support for potential action against Iran's atomic program which Israel views as an existential threat. Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition 2012-05-08T12:15:11Z Hanford produced the plutonium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945 — 75 years ago this Sunday. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s another to feel the power of an atomic detonation. Go for the weird: 4 oddball attractions in Las Vegas 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z MON Peace event honoring the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war and violence, northwest shore, 6 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-01T23:37:08Z “My ambition was to develop the atomic bomb,” Mr. Wilson later said. Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z No doubt few people appreciated the atomic age neatness of his 1958 parking meter design at the time, but it survived for decades. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z Ms. Jacobsen recoils at the weaponry that was being developed and the ghastly results of atomic testing. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z If you had a fear in that period, it would have been of being blown up by an atomic bomb, followed closely – in the case of women – by a fear of getting pregnant. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z This isn’t a book that wrestles deeply with the moral calculus of the decision to drop the atomic bombs. 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z Some of the sites are off limits to the public, but it is possible to tour atomic New Mexico without getting irradiated or arrested. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “One critic wrote that it was an atomic bomb scandal,” Ms. Hering said. At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Kaneto Shindo’s “Children of Hiroshima” was released in Japan in 1952, when the memories of World War II and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh and painful. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z Turning to the Soviet side, readers will learn how and when Soviet intelligence began to concentrate on getting its agents into the American labs that were working to create an atomic weapon. In This True-Life Spy Story, It’s America vs. Russia, the Early Years 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z This time, however, Mars launches not 10 but 100 cylinders, and the first 50 are essentially atomic bombs meant to clear the landing area of enemy forces. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The title of that show comes from the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped in Japan. Q&A: Takashi Murakami talks monsters, movies and Fukushima 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z It's completely clean, and so any kind of understanding of atomic structures is very important. Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected' 2013-03-17T00:05:44Z We shot near Alamogordo and White Sands, near where they tested the atomic bomb. How we made: Paul Mayersberg and Tony Richmond on The Man Who Fell to Earth 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z She headlines this festival, which also features the atomic electro-rock outfit Sleigh Bells, whose album “Treats” — released on M.I.A.’s label — is one of this year’s most promising debuts. Pop Critics? Choices for Summer Concerts 2010-07-01T22:43:00Z Witness the anxious appeals by radio listeners in the 1930s for scientists in the city to halt an atomic experiment on the grounds that it might bring about the end of the world. Sheffield university helps to crack the mystery of Stonehenge - possibly 2012-06-22T16:57:00Z The piercing eyes stare out intently from the cover of “American Prometheus,” a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. The Eyes of Cillian Murphy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Miller served with an elite Navy unit in the Pacific and took some of the first pictures of Hiroshima, Japan, after it was devastated by the first atomic bomb. WW II photo-documentarian Wayne Miller dies at 94 2013-05-22T23:28:07Z Their pulsing lines and numbers resemble a merger of mathematical equations, molecular models and computer circuitry as well as atomic structures — they also seem to chart the energy of thought itself. The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “The Seven Streams of the River Ota,” which became a worldwide hit after its 1994 premiere, takes the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, as the starting point of a seven-hour saga. With a 7-Hour Saga, Robert Lepage Returns to Safer Ground 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The Indianapolis was the cruiser that in 1945 carried parts of the atomic bomb that was to be dropped on Hiroshima to Tinian Island in the Pacific, where the weapon was to be assembled. Review: ‘U.S.S. Indianapolis,’ a War (Yawn) Catastrophe 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z By 1960, he had put an enduring stamp on the atomic age through the Single Integrated Operational Plan, or SIOP, SAC’s list of all the nuclear weapons in the American arsenal and their intended targets. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Above all, it looks atomic, especially as the participants spin away from the group to talk to the rest of us. Tino Sehgal: These Associations – review 2012-07-28T23:05:31Z It’s true that he played the crucial role in secret atomic research conducted in Los Alamos, N.M., and that he would never escape central responsibility for creating the atomic bomb. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The cast of characters bulges out to include a redneck who uses an errant atomic bomb to arouse his girlfriend. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The Cold War, Vietnam, and atomic energy, among other social and political forces, made life feel uncertain and beyond individual control. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z At other moments, though, Mr. Winchester writes with appropriate sensitivity, particularly when discussing the Marshall Islanders, “perpetual atomic nomads” whom the United States continuously displaced and resettled. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z A vivid image of dislocation isn’t unexpected in a work about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb.” The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The arguments about dropping the atomic bombs on Japan remain controversial. Remembering the ‘Good War’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z She dances, flops over a chair and slams home Coward’s zingers with the precision of an atomic clock, the panache of a seasoned comic. Angela Lansbury’s road, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to Noël Coward 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z He wrote a report about Nagasaki downplaying the devastation and denying the existence of “atomic fever.” Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z They also demanded President Barack Obama apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 'Heroes' actress visits Japan dolphin hunt town 2010-03-26T16:05:00Z A Time magazine critic in 1960 called it “an atomic horror movie, a pacifist tract, a Proustian exercise in recollection, a radioactive Romeo and Juliet.” Emmanuelle Riva, oldest lead actress to be nominated for Academy Award, dies at 89 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z They were school pupils in Hiroshima, both freed from study to work in the fields on 's wartime food production, at the moment the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on their city. Hiroshima survivors exhibition marks 65th anniversary of first atomic bomb 2010-08-05T16:34:00Z Numerous online users in Japan have started a #NoBarbenheimer petition against the joint-double feature's insensitivity to the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warner Bros. apologizes after "Barbenheimer" memes cause controversy in Japan 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The episode is called “Japanese SuperSub,” and it details the Japanese effort to come up with a game-changing weapon during World War II even as the Americans were working on the atomic bomb. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z Perhaps, Mr. Just said, the United States might have “won” by waging total war against North Vietnam, using atomic weapons or carpet bombing until the North’s cities were destroyed and the countryside left barren. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The DB5 also featured in the 1965 Bond film "Thunderball," as Bond battled to track down two stolen atomic bombs and foil a plan to blow up Miami as the world was held to ransom. Shaken not stirred: 007's Aston Martin goes up for auction 2010-09-08T14:17:00Z “A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died.” Sunday Reading: War Stories 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Radioactive fallout plumed over the area but the public was never warned, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a publication founded in 1945 by nuclear physicists concerned about the dangers of atomic weapons. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Every August, newspapers are dotted with stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accompanied by a well-picked-over — but never resolved — debate over whether atomic bombs were needed to end the Asia-Pacific war on American terms. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Suddenly, screens begin showing nuclear explosions, and the giant, troubled face of J Robert Oppenheimer – the physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, then agonised over what he had created. Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities' 2011-07-07T22:30:00Z In the ’80s, mushroom clouds began to sprout on MTV with numbing regularity, as if the network’s entire purpose was to toughen up the children of the Reagan era through a fit of atomic hiccups. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It was like if an atomic bomb blew," says Arias, "and then when the dust settled people started to move. Antony Hegarty's Meltdown: New York pioneers who walked on the wild side 2012-07-28T23:05:37Z The New Mexico landscape is eerily apropos to an atomic tour. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Peace on Your Wings An all-youth cast performs this fact-based musical drama about a young Japanese girl who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 13-20: 'One Man, Two Guvnors' and more 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Recruited by the Manhattan Project in 1944 at the age of 18, Hall was the youngest scientist working on the development of an atomic bomb and eager to win a race against the Nazis. ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison’s hero finds himself driving endlessly across Nevada, and he comments: “I see why they test atomic bombs in this state — if they didn’t I would, only in more central locations.” An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The second number in the periodic table boxes is called the atomic mass or weight. Russian scientist created a chemistry tool with room for discovery 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Which sets a challenge for “Trinity,” Louisa Hall’s intelligent, elegant and yet strangely elusive novel about the father of the atomic bomb. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z After the United States dropped the atomic bombs, Hersey wrote that if civilization was to mean anything, people had to acknowledge the humanity of their enemies. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Picks range from ‘The Barber of Seville’ to two world premieres touching on the 1945 atomic blasts in Japan. Classical and opera performances to watch for this fall 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He also had some incomprehensible things to say about atomic energy, wood and the Bible. That viral Idaho debate was not the “best ever” 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In “Bomb,” a 2012 National Book Award finalist , Sheinkin tracked down the scientists, spies and counterspies involved in the making — and stealing — of the atomic bomb. ‘Most Dangerous’: A fast-paced young people’s biography of Daniel Ellsberg 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z His friends in British intelligence sent him on a secret mission to South Africa to learn the country’s plans for its atomic weapons when the white government was replaced by a black one. In ‘The Outsider,’ Frederick Forsyth shares his life of intrigue 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Four days after the conference ended, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people. Looking Back on 16 Days That Shaped History 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Scientific advances like X-rays and atomic theory seemed to reinforce the existence of a truth beyond appearances. In Search of Hilma af Klint, Who Upended Art History, But Left Few Traces 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Godzilla is no exception: in the 1954 version of the story, the weight borne by the monster’s scary shoulders was atomic–the fallout from Japan’s horrific experience of nuclear weapons. Godzilla, Into the Storm and More Summer Cli-Fi Thrillers 0002-11-30T00:00:00Z As a student in the 1930s in Italy he discovered the principle which today underpins nuclear power, and which was important in developing the atomic bomb. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Since the beginning of the atomic age, it’s an image we’ve seen again and again. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Hughes describes the mood in the room as akin to atomic energy, the music as uranium. This Week in Fiction: Discovering an Unpublished Story by Langston Hughes 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s the man who designed the atomic bomb. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The full detail of the atomic structure of myoglobin, depicted below with sticks representing the bonds between atoms, is almost too much to comprehend — numbing in its complexity. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z The astronomically large objects of the universe are no easier to grasp than the atomically small particles of matter. Review | Everything explained — in photos, cartoons and Legos 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z What followed was a daring and brilliant hour of TV, as “Twin Peaks: The Return” jumped back to the mid-20th century to offer an abstract depiction of an ancient sickness infiltrating the atomic age. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 16: Doppelgangers and Dancers 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z "Officials regard the possibility of atomic sabotage as the gravest threat of subversion ... that this country has ever faced," said the . Smiling in the face of ash 2010-04-18T16:30:00Z Fuchs spent nine years in jail for revealing atomic secrets, then returned to science. Splitting atoms, sharing secrets 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The drug, says Besson, is inspired by "a molecule that pregnant women create after six weeks – a super atomic bomb for a baby". Luc Besson: 'You can't imagine how many people ask me for a Léon sequel' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z He roamed over a range of subjects, from negotiations on a ban on atomic weapons testing to his rejection of renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s like the atomic dilemma at the end of the second world war. Game of Thrones: how to win – by the British army and other experts 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They battle giant insects and a prehistoric dinosaur, and they finally detonate an atomic bomb to destroy the creature. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z From the "pebble menagerie", he chooses a piece of slate lying on a Welsh beach, then embarks on a fascinating journey into the "enormous atomic vault of the pebble". The Planet in a Pebble by Jan Zalasiewicz – review 2012-06-12T11:30:03Z Numbers don't tell the whole story about how these cultural atomic bombs detonated and dominated pop culture. Why I miss the monoculture 2011-09-29T00:01:00Z The cinema of atomic dread, which culminated in the 1980s doomsday visions of “The Day After” and “When the Wind Blows,” is effectively dormant. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z All that her neighbors know about her is that she makes great scones; they don’t realize she’s funneling atomic secrets from Britain and the U.S. to the Soviet Union. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The latter knew nothing about the atomic programme. Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z He couldn't unionize his workplace without consequences and he couldn't express remorse or regret about the use of the atomic bomb. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, and was one of the developers of the Soviet atomic bomb. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z Politics and economics, atomic bombs, primitive and abstract art forms, the entire Orient, symptoms of “thaw” in Soviet Russia, the Future of Mankind, and so on, leave me supremely indifferent. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z The atomic bomb and what it wrought define Oppenheimer’s legacy and also shape this film. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Used to have a big Afro puff like – Leah mimes an atomic mushroom behind her own head. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z Most attempts to change the world for the better – in Iraq, with atomic power – have led to terrible consequences. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z How changes in atomic mass leave clues to our climatological past. One of America’s top climate scientists is an evangelical Christian. She’s on a mission to persuade skeptics. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z If Wallace rather than Truman had become president, Kuznick told Stone, the United States might not have dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and the cold war might never have started. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z The thematic meaning comes through vividly, as staged and performed here: The parts of the ship are fused into an entity, just as atomic particles make up all matter. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z However, at first the atomic details were not visible. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, cost more than an aircraft carrier, and was likened to the stuff of sci-fi and even “Frankenstein.” A Day-by-Day Re-Creation of Truman’s Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In 1948, Ms. Stafford, then 24, tagged along with a film crew seeking Einstein’s views on the atomic bomb after Hiroshima. From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The world’s first atomic bomb exploded that morning, launching the nuclear age, and foreshadowing the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki within the month. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z “Black holes. The event horizon. The atomic clocks. Seeing the unseeable.” Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The last of them, he says, is “109 East Palace,” about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. Grandson’s pitch coaxes Redford out of retirement, briefly 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Some believe that his betrayal was more damaging than that of other atomic spies, like Klaus Fuchs. Splitting atoms, sharing secrets 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Not the color of naive optimism, you see, but of hazard warnings, atomic blasts and our new president. Have liberals found their combative new leader in … Keith Olbermann? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Their sole remaining connection to our familiar world would be through the weak nuclear force, which is stronger than gravity but only active across tiny distances on the scale of atomic nuclei. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That might be a result of “fire, ice, cosmic menopause, atomic obliteration.” How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z His process, which involves sloshing, slapping, flinging, and blowing chemicals through a straw, yields abstract works that tackle the subject of atomic radiation through transformation, dilution, and chance—in short, the fraught process of inheritance. What a Japanese-American Artist Inherited from the Atomic Bomb 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z When she was told she might never walk again, Breillat vowed to return to directing like an "atomic bomb". Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z We were young and ambitious and we wanted to address the big issues from which the cinema preferred to avert its eyes – in my own case, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, the Algerian war. Alain Resnais: vive la diff?rence 2010-06-22T21:00:00Z For Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb should never be used again and the H-bomb was too destructive to be justified as a military weapon. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Both describe destructive forces that commence on an atomic level, but fusion is far more devasting – and Nolan employs it figuratively in a way that definitively crystallizes as the story folds together in the end. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z And its arrangement in a parklike setting topped with an atomic mushroom cloud is scathing in the extreme. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The premise of “The Manhattan Projects,” which began in 2012, is simple: What if developing the atomic bomb was the least scary thing going on among this secluded group of scientists? If you like the new TV drama “Manhattan,” you’ll love this darkly hilarious comic about the atomic bomb 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z “Atom Bomb!,” drawn by Wood, is a moving seven-page meditation on the human consequences of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The Dirty Details of War 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z For the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, the University of Maryland Art Gallery is showing more than 80 posters by artists from around the world. In the galleries: Melding sound and art 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Truman’s Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace, wrote: “The guilt consciousness of atomic scientists is one of the most astounding things I have ever seen.” The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The Soviets believed that President Harry S. Truman had dropped atomic bombs on Japan to “show who was boss,” as the Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov later put it. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Returning to his studies, he earned a doctorate in physics and went to Paris to work on atomic radiation at the Joliot-Curie laboratories, where he said he suffered a second personal crisis. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at 99 2011-04-30T16:58:15Z The codex was the perfect version of the Bible, a sort of atomic clock of Judaism, and intended to be the model for all subsequent copies. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Celmins’s early career also included “disaster” works, images based on photographs of doomed military planes, cars on fire and the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z With more than six thousand nuclear weapons in the American stockpile, we are still in the atomic age. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z At the time, Hope genteelly ribbed the demagoguery of anti-Communism: “Eisenhower isn’t really worried about Russia using the atomic bomb,” he said in 1953. Exhibition Review: ?Hope for America? at the Library of Congress 2010-06-11T22:47:00Z As painful truths multiply like atomic fission, this shifting kaleidoscope ponders why Heisenberg wanted to meet with Bohr despite the great personal risk to them both? Piecing together a mysterious wartime meeting in Rubicon's 'Copenhagen' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In a mere instant, the equivalent of an atomic bomb had been detonated within my skull. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z We had no problems dropping the atomic bomb on civilians – a devastating war crime. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z Historian Dower cuts through the smog of sloppy, ahistorical comparisons between 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, Pearl Harbor and the atomic bombings of Japan. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z He also visited Japan shortly after the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tonight's TV highlights: Coronation Street: Live 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z He saw the atomic mushroom cloud over Nagasaki and later said he “didn’t like it then or now.” Jerry Tallmer, Critic Who Created the Obies, Dies at 93 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z An H-bomb, they insist, but the atomic kind is frightening enough. Cover Story: Kim Jong-un’s Big Announcement 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Reading her book is a powerful way to engage with the moral conundrums surrounding our country's use of atomic weapons. Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Lining the walls are large framed photographs from Hiromi Tsuchida’s “Hiroshima Trilogy” series, each one documenting a personal item recovered after the dropping of the atomic bomb. A Deluge of Art at the Carnegie International 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to imagine a repeat of 1945, when Harry Truman succeeded Roosevelt and didn’t know that the United States had developed an atomic bomb. Six vice presidents talk about job once considered invisible 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Its only rival for sheer atomic power comes from southern Thailand. At Ugly Baby, the Name Isn’t All That’s Unusual 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z I learned that the history of the indigenous peoples here is enmeshed with the atomic history, but I could not find examples of the disappearance place explored in literature. On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z A sign on the glass said the pig had been radiated by an atomic bomb blast. Nagasaki, the atomic bomb and the radiated pig that haunts me 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He protested the death by electric chair of the Rosenbergs, executed for handing over US atomic bomb secrets to the Russians. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z After a fruitless attempt to sell one grand concept to his bandmates he complained to his first wife, Karen: "It's like trying to explain atomic energy to a group of cavemen." Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z "Oppenheimer" is a serious account of Oppenheimer's rise and his regret over unleashed the atomic bomb on humanity, anchored by Cillian Murphy's fervent, focused performance. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z If we didn’t have atoms, how could we have atomic bombs? What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The US military quickly decided Japan would be the new target of the atomic bomb. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z In 1949, the Soviets successfully detonated their first atomic bomb, ending the United States’ nuclear monopoly — and arguably stripping Hersey’s “Hiroshima” of its perceived propagandistic menace. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Whole classes practice duck-and-cover, not for fear of atomic bombs but in proactive response to the prospect of active shooters. ‘Eighth Grade’ Review: The Agonies and Glories of Growing Up 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “It caused an explosion, like an atomic bomb.” Turin Opera’s Music Director Threatens to Leave 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It looks like an ordinary pit stop save for the atomic cloud soon mushrooming in the sky. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Next, she turned to images she clipped from magazines, showing totems of war: fighter jets, atomic explosions, a view of Hiroshima after the bomb. The Artist Vija Celmins Conjures Sea and Sky With a Brush 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The total number of neutrons and protons in an atom’s nucleus gives its atomic weight. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But, Stone and Kuznick argue, because the US used atomic bombs first and was dishonest about why it did so, that international agreement didn't happen: instead, Stone grew up under that threat of nuclear Armageddon. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z In his poem, Grass called for "unhindered and permanent control of Israel's nuclear capability and Iran's atomic facilities through an international body." Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban 2012-04-11T18:36:07Z “Prove it All Night” set the tone, followed by a ferocious “My Love Will Not Let You Down” – one of the hidden gems in Springsteen’s songbook, especially because of Max Weinberg’s atomic drum fills. Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z It’s not that atomic anxiety doesn’t exist; it’s only that, outside of civil-defense maneuvers and Lim’s choreographed scenes, it is rarely performed. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z So I hope you enjoy the "24" ride we are about to go on, because I don’t know when the Chinese are going to detonate the atomic bomb on this recap ... "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Bad music edition 2010-05-11T12:12:00Z The shape of the crew’s patch represents the international atomic symbol, showing an atom with particles called electrons circling the nucleus. NASA crews show their creativity in long history of mission patches 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The detonation of the atomic bomb did not herald, as Bohr believed and Oppenheimer hoped it would, the end of all wars. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z He explained using oxygen with atomic number 8. Russian scientist created a chemistry tool with room for discovery 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Released in 1952, the year after the American occupation ended, “Children of Hiroshima” was the first Japanese film to treat the atomic bombing of the country by United States forces in 1945. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, and the West fear Iran's enrichment of uranium is aimed at developing atomic weapons. New dad Nick Lachey to release a lullaby album 2013-02-26T17:01:05Z Beethoven shows in the first movement the art of motivic technique, using a small, atomic element and developing it. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z But first there was this matter of the atomic bombs. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z As well as calculating rocket trajectories, this "electronic brain" was used by the Manhattan Project scientists to build the atomic bomb. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer - review 2012-05-22T12:30:03Z Her father, who she said represented much of what was fun and carefree in her life, left the family shortly after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Carolyn See, memoirist, novelist and book reviewer for The Post, dies at 82 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony, meanwhile, reflects on the events that led to the testing of the first atomic bomb just seven years later, in 1945. BBCNOW/Outwater | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:05:00Z The underdog is everyone else: the people she knocks out, shoots, stabs, or glues to the ceiling with her hypertrophied atomic mind. Lucy: too much wham-bam and not enough ma'am 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z On Aug. 6, 1945, after Hiroshima was destroyed, President Truman declared the atomic bomb “the greatest thing in history.” Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s staggering film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” condenses a titanic shift in consciousness into three haunted hours. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The play comprised conversations between a young woman who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the ghost of her father. Eiji Kusuhara obituary 2010-05-27T17:58:00Z He walked with a pronounced limp, the result of surviving the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, his hometown, on Aug. 6, 1945. Issey Miyake, Japanese Fashion Designer, Dies at 84 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus was done with a grant of £70. Steven Weinberg: 'I wanted to be on the in – privy to all the secrets of physics' 2013-03-03T00:05:05Z “Butterfly Room” consists of 100 tiny LCD monitors, each displaying its own short loop of colorful changing forms that variously resemble insects, jellyfish, space stations, atomic models and jewelry. Review: Tabor Robak, ‘Fake Shrimp’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “But then the world comes along and collides with it, like atomic particles or something.” Does Lars von Trier’s ‘vomitive’ new film spell the end for provocative cinema? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Even hobbled in this way, or perhaps because of it, “Godzilla, King of the Monsters!” was a hit among American audiences hungry for atomic scare fare. Godzilla Returns to Japan 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z What, after all, is so wrong with the plausible notion that continuous magnitudes, like all smooth objects, are made of tiny atomic particles? Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z The active ingredient in these drinks was radium, a radioactive element that releases a packet of radiant energy with every atomic decay. Yum yum radium: Energy drinks are bad, but not as bad as they were years ago 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z "Voyage" revolves around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist to save his life. Cameron, "Avatar" scribe in "Fantastic" reunion 2010-10-22T21:39:00Z What information is contained in the vibrating strings inside the atomic particles of neurons? Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Aug. 6 Annual lantern-floating ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; 6 p.m., Summer Guide | August 2016 events around Seattle 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In 2005, the art collective’s travelling installation “Little Boy,” named after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, made its subtext clear with the subtitle “The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture.” Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z After World War II, international fears of communism and atomic war further strengthened the power of Washington, as federal institutions assumed more and more control over American civic life. How the Midwest went from the idealized to the derided 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z "Manhattan," as in the Manhattan Project — which produced the first atomic bomb — improves on its predecessor. 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The sign transformed what was within not by pointing to it like a traditional sign, but by pointing somewhere else — here, to the fantastical, explosive possibilities of the atomic space age. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z The program mentions that the show is equally indebted to the exploits of the atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. ‘Worlds Fair Inn’ Review: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The date was Feb. 26, 1943, and construction would not start for another month on the Hanford nuclear reservation, which would produce plutonium for atomic bombs and usher in the atomic age. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of thiiiiiiings ! Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z The atomic reality that Lucretius describes is not an isolated phenomenon—it is not a separate realm of electrons and nuclei, electromagnetic fields, particles and waves. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He was 14 when American bombers obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs in 1945. Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Global Zero, a non-partisan atomic disarmament organisation, backed the YouTube video, which gives a colloquial briefing on the intentions behind the bill – to tonally unsettling effect. Morgan Freeman and Jack Black back Iran nuclear deal for fear of becoming 'super dead' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z On the northeastern edge of Lund, where a huge, $2 billion super-microscope is being built to help European scientists see inside tiny atomic structures, archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of Iron Age communities. Lund, Sweden: Viking roots, off the beaten track 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Drafted during World War II, he worked on the production of plutonium for the atomic bomb – a hands-on relationship with the cataclysmic potential of modern science that seems to have shaken him to his core. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Later work uncovered coils within the gelatinous coils — the helical trace of the polypeptide — and the atomic details of the flattened porphyrin molecule that myoglobin clasps to its bosom. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z In July 1944, an emergency meeting was called in Chicago as scientists and engineers feared the proposed plutonium atomic bomb would detonate with more of a fizzle than an explosion. Science writer Hill Williams chronicles Hanford's nuclear history 2011-07-07T19:29:05Z Landau worked with pioneering quantum physicists such as Niels Bohr, had a hand in the Soviet atomic weapons programme, and won a Nobel prize in 1962. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z He advised the United States government on atomic energy and worked on weapons problems during summer stints at Los Alamos. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The FBI's obsession with Soviet atomic spies is more understandable now that we know how many of them there were. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Unlike other atomic isotopes, this one — developed by a neighborhood nuclear physicist — absorbs energy, doubling in size every 12 hours. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Whatever its source, Jack’s atomic heat threatens to warp the linoleum tiles on the kitchen floor. Theater Review: ‘Dead Accounts’ With Katie Holmes at Music Box Theater 2012-11-30T03:00:15Z That controversy is remembered largely because of its coverage of the debate about the U.S. decision to use atomic weapons, but the deeper issue was also about race. Perspective | Lonnie Bunch isn’t afraid to address white supremacy. What else will that change for the Smithsonian? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of that kind of thing in “Hollywood” — a supercollider of fiction and fact, sure to shatter your curious Google searches into atomic shards. Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In early 1946, half a year after atomic bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government awarded Ernest Lawrence the Medal for Merit. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Animated maps stress the city-killing potency of even rudimentary atomic devices. From bomb silo to big screen, an anti-nuclear quest 2011-06-17T06:56:07Z As a young man eager to be demobbed, Zinn recalls celebrating the dropping of the atomic bomb; it meant the end of a war he did not wish to return to. Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z Were they innocent victims of the Red Scare, misguided progressives or traitorous spies who passed atomic secrets to the Russians? These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z This is the testing of the atomic bomb, the month before the real deal in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Foyle's War; Our Girl – TV review 2013-03-25T07:00:00Z She’d visited Los Alamos National Laboratory — birthplace of the atomic bomb and 40 minutes northwest of Santa Fe — many times in her old life while doing classified work. Valerie Plame, America’s most famous ex-spy, finds her new identity 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z In the silence, I felt like the only survivor of an atomic blast. Arrivederci, Little Italy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z “To me, this film is like a mental atomic bomb,” the filmmaker says in his notes on the movie. VIDEO: Watch an Exclusive Clip From Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Tiny atomic beads of harmony or timbre bump against each other but remain discrete, never melding into a wash of sound. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z A former atomic bomb shelter built in 1949 in anticipation of a World War III Soviet air strike and occupied by the National Guard will house Los Angeles’ newest museum building. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z In other words, if you've experienced genocide, slavery, colonizing, patriarchy or the explosion of an atomic bomb, you don't need the specter of imminent destruction to focus your attention. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Determined to maintain and expand its monopoly on nuclear weapons, it was taking over remote islands in the Pacific, forcing the inhabitants to leave, and turning the islands into deadly playgrounds for more atomic tests. Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Pompeii was home to about 13,000 people when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with a force equivalent to 40 atomic bombs, buried the town under ash, pumice, pebbles and dust. Column and wall crumble in fresh damage at Italy's ancient Pompeii 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But they left an impression on a child growing up in the dawning age of rocketry and atomic test clouds in the Nevada desert. Can Robert Bigelow (and the Rest of Us) Survive Death? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Aug. 6 Commemoration to mark the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki concludes with floating of lanterns on Green Lake at dusk, 6:30 p.m., August 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z |
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