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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLeo Szilard, pictured circa 1945, circulated a petition to other Manhattan Project scientists,...
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, Nixon resigns: News Journal archives, week of Aug. 6
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months ago"Pages of history" features excerpts from The News Journal archives including The Morning News, the...
How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe first hydrogen bomb test, as part of Operation Ivy, detonated over the Marshall Islands in...
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago....
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA composite image showing Albert Einstein around 1939 and nuclear explosion in French Polynesia in...
What ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t tell you about atomic bombs
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer. On July 21, 2023, Christropher Nolan’s Oppenheimer...
Watching 'Oppenheimer'? Here's how a Spartanburg, SC home played role in use of the bomb
Spartanburg Herald-Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEditor's Note: This story was originally published on GoUpstate on Aug. 12, 2005. A front porch in...
Pentagon Papers leaker weighed morality of A-bomb at Cranbrook, months before Hiroshima
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMonths before the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and revealed to the world the existence...
Opinion: 'Oppenheimer' is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 11 months agoChristopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" joins a relatively short list of studio productions that tackle...
'Oppenheimer' reignites debate: Was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Japan?
Yahoo News via AOL· 11 months agoNearly 80 years after the end of World War II, the blockbuster film has added new fuel to a...
Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJ. Robert Oppenheimer working with Albert Einstein.Corbis/Getty Images Albert Einstein sent a letter...