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Why some Manhattan Project scientists feared the Trinity test

At 5:30 a.m. mountain war time on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon detonated over a flat, arid stretch of New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, as it was code-named, confirmed that an ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nuclear family: A child of the Manhattan Project contemplates its 80th anniversary

My father, Donald Schover, was an electronics research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (or Met Lab)—the same lab where Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first ...
Forbes

Are AI Scientists Reliving The Past?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. AI scientists are echoing the concerns of Manhattan Project physicists, warning about the ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Manhattan Project scientist among newest fellows of Academy of Science

The Academy of Sciences - St. Louis has inducted 26 new fellows including a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project and the head of the Siteman Cancer Institute ...