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Who built world’s first atomic bomb; used to read Bhagavad Gita; his family had to flee Germany due to Hitler’s fear, name is…
J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...
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Symposium kicks off immersive exhibit on the bomb
A new exhibit on nuclear weapons opens Wednesday at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library as part of a nationwide ...
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Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight
But building the atomic bomb overshadowed these other contributions. When scientists witnessed the detonation of the first bomb — the so-called Trinity Test that took place on July 16 ...
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White Sands Missile Range celebrates the Army’s 250th birthday showcasing how it has contributed to national defense through testing
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (April 25, 2025) – As the United States Army celebrates its 250th birthday this year we are ...
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An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Los Alamos Lab Where J. Robert Oppenheimer Created the Atomic Bomb
“Square dancing evolved as a natural Saturday evening activity in that Southwestern setting,” Richard Rhodes wrote in his definitive history, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “Single men and ...
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Operation Sundial: The Terrifying 10-Gigaton Nuclear Weapon That (Thankfully) Never Was
But while the bombs that were dropped on the two Japanese cities at the end of the Second World War were hideously powerful (the bomb dropped ... produced when heavy atomic nuclei (from the ...
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George Koval: Atomic Spy Unmasked
That July 16, the initiator passed a crucial test: the world's first atomic bomb exploded at a site called Trinity within the bombing range in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was the explosion that ...