Philosophy
Current voices on a past event...Trinity [July 16th, 1945]. Players: Hans W. Courant, Roy J. Glauber, Nathan T. Melamed, and Morton Camac, Albert Allen Bartlett, Robert J. Brown, and Murray Peshkin. This is a good audio presentation and accompanying photographs. Be sure to note the additional material at the bottom.
Close, but no cigar
Deceased--Robert Furman
Enrico Ferimi and Winnie the Pooh
Historical event in 1942 at the University of Chicago
James Bryant Conant...chemist, educator
Just a reminder...July 16th, 1945
"Little Things That Jiggle: Richard Feynman and Atomic Physics"
Los Alamos staff
Philip Morrison...physicist
Richard Feynman stories
Rudi Peieris...physicist's physicist
Seagondollar's lecture--Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory
The Manhattan Project...video presentation
The Mother of Nuclear Fision
Tickling the dragon's tail
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.--first Peacetime Fatality Of Nuclear Fission
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. May 4th, 1921 to September 15th, 1945 Partially-Reflected Plutonium Sphere Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned hand The Writer's Almanac... On this day in 1945, physicist Harry K. Daghlian Jr. became the first...
- "the Trials Of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
Coming Monday, January 26th on PBS's American Experience..."The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer". PBS: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2 hours) Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret...
- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
Yuliy Khariton, director of the Soviet A-bomb project from its inception in 1945 through 1992, sitting next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Internally, it was an exact copy of the American Fat Man. A slide show presentation from The New York...
- Just A Reminder...july 16th, 1945
Operation Upshot-Knothole, conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground between March 17 and June 4, 1953, consisted of 11 atmospheric tests: three airdrops, seven tower tests and one airburst. Upshot-Knothole involved the testing of new theories, using both...
- The Manhattan Project...video Presentation
From POSP's stringer Tim...the following: "The Moment in Time documents the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II when it was feared the Nazis were developing the atomic bomb. The history of the bomb's development is traced through...
Philosophy
Voices on Trinity [July 16th, 1945]
Current voices on a past event...Trinity [July 16th, 1945]. Players: Hans W. Courant, Roy J. Glauber, Nathan T. Melamed, and Morton Camac, Albert Allen Bartlett, Robert J. Brown, and Murray Peshkin. This is a good audio presentation and accompanying photographs. Be sure to note the additional material at the bottom.
"Voices of the Manhattan Project"
October 28th, 2008
The New York Times
October 28th, 2008
The New York Times
Close, but no cigar
Deceased--Robert Furman
Enrico Ferimi and Winnie the Pooh
Historical event in 1942 at the University of Chicago
James Bryant Conant...chemist, educator
Just a reminder...July 16th, 1945
"Little Things That Jiggle: Richard Feynman and Atomic Physics"
Los Alamos staff
Philip Morrison...physicist
Richard Feynman stories
Rudi Peieris...physicist's physicist
Seagondollar's lecture--Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory
The Manhattan Project...video presentation
The Mother of Nuclear Fision
Tickling the dragon's tail
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.--first Peacetime Fatality Of Nuclear Fission
Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. May 4th, 1921 to September 15th, 1945 Partially-Reflected Plutonium Sphere Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned hand The Writer's Almanac... On this day in 1945, physicist Harry K. Daghlian Jr. became the first...
- "the Trials Of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
Coming Monday, January 26th on PBS's American Experience..."The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer". PBS: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2 hours) Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret...
- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
Yuliy Khariton, director of the Soviet A-bomb project from its inception in 1945 through 1992, sitting next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Internally, it was an exact copy of the American Fat Man. A slide show presentation from The New York...
- Just A Reminder...july 16th, 1945
Operation Upshot-Knothole, conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground between March 17 and June 4, 1953, consisted of 11 atmospheric tests: three airdrops, seven tower tests and one airburst. Upshot-Knothole involved the testing of new theories, using both...
- The Manhattan Project...video Presentation
From POSP's stringer Tim...the following: "The Moment in Time documents the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II when it was feared the Nazis were developing the atomic bomb. The history of the bomb's development is traced through...