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A tip for lobbying U.S. presidents: have a good historical anecdote ready

dhharrison wrote 3 weeks ago: By Donald H. Harrison Jewishsightseeing.com, April 16, 2006 SAN DIEGO—We now have two good examples … more →

Tags: 07) Andrew Jackson, 26) Theodore Roosevelt, 32-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 33) Harry S. Truman, Leo Szilard, eugene wigner, enrico fermi, Adolf Hitler, Alert Einstein

Edward Teller, the Real Dr. Strangelove, Peter Goodchild

mattbruensteiner wrote 2 months ago: Edward Teller is a giant in the history of the 20th Century. He is a central figure in the story of … more →

Tags: history of technology, History, Books, Peter Goodchild

Thursday Mashup (9/17/09)1 comment

doomsy wrote 3 months ago: Congratulations to President Obama for abandoning the idiotic, let’s-just-light-some-money-on-fire-s … more →

Tags: Pundit Ponderings (Bad), Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Culture Wars, World Stuff, Health Care, Economy, Karl Rove, missile defense

Louis Rosen, 91, Dies; Worked on First Nuclear Bombs

Dumpster Diver wrote 3 months ago: Louis Rosen in his office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he spent his entire career. On Ma … more →

Tags: DDN, News, Louis Rosen, 91, Dies; Worked on First Nuclear Bombs, Dr. Teller, Los Alamos, N M

POST: Manhattan Project Implications on Japanese Politics

politicspwn3d wrote 4 months ago: Last night I watched a very interesting documentary on the eagerness of one nation’s race to a … more →

Tags: U.S.-Asia Relations News, Manhattan Project, Nuclear, Bomb, hiroshima, nagasaki, Japan, DPJ, LDP

Hiroshima Day7 comments

Le Rev Dr wrote 4 months ago: 6/8/9 Today, Parishioners, is Hiroshima Day. August 6th 1945 From Wikipedia: After six months of int … more →

Tags: Chrysanthems, hell, sinners, Atom Bomb, atom bomb dome, げんばくどーむ、原爆、げんばくドーム, Banjima Man, birdshit, enola gay

Hump-Day History: Project Matterhorn and Early Fusion Research

Will Thomas wrote 7 months ago: At this moment, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is preparing to come online at Lawrence Livermo … more →

Tags: Primer, John Wheeler, Hans Bethe, Joan Lisa Bromberg, Lyman Spitzer Jr., Gary Weisel, Ira Bernstein, Edward Frieman, Martin Kruskal

Hump-Day History: The Soviet Bomb

Will Thomas wrote 9 months ago: Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov, Photo Credit: Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, courtesy AIP Emilio Seg … more →

Tags: Primer, Andrei Sakharov, Igor Kurchatov, Igor Tamm, Iulii Khariton

Lovin' that bomb

lichanos wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times has an article today under the headline, Soviets Stole Bomb Idea From U.S., Book … more →

Tags: A-bomb, Arms Control, Arms race, China, Cold War, h-bomb, History, Manhattan Project, Neo-conservatives

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of No More War!

spcoll wrote 1 year ago: No More War! First edition published in 1958. “Dr. Pauling writes with a noble passion, which … more →

Tags: Peace Activism, Documentary History Websites, Pauling-related Events, Peace Activism, Linus Pauling, No more War...

2008 Ig Nobel Prize winners

jacob1207 wrote 1 year ago: The winners of the 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced and the awards ceremony was held yesterd … more →

Tags: Economics, Fun, Odd, Science, Awards, Brent Jordan, Christel Joubert, Geoffrey Miller, harvard

Energy from Heaven and Earth

Luke Weston wrote 1 year ago: Has anyone read this book? If not, I recommend it. It’s one of those books that, despite being … more →

Tags: energy systems, energy policy, Books

Book Review: The Firecracker Boys1 comment

slacker wrote 1 year ago: The Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neil 1995, St. Martins Press This book is the story of Project C … more →

Tags: GeoPolitics, History, Review, Science, Abusurd, Nuclear Power, atomic energy, Nuclear Weapons, AEC

On This Day, 7-16-08: The Manhattan Project -- Alamogordo

Randy Roberts wrote 1 year ago: Atom bomb successfully tested On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to a … more →

Tags: History, Louis XVI, Atom Bomb, Manhattan Project, Brigadier-Gneral Leslie R Groves, enrico fermi, Robert J Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Alamogordo

Featured Document: Angry and Frustrated, Pauling Considers a Run for the U.S. Presidency

spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Linus Pauling. Oslo, Norway. December 21, 1963 Though often encouraged to, Linus Pauling never ran f … more →

Tags: Documentary History Websites, Featured Documents, Peace Activism, Dwight Eisenhower, featured document, Linus Pauling, presidential campaign, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Thomas Dodd

Pauling vs. Teller

spcoll wrote 1 year ago: Portrait of Edward Teller by Dmitri Vail. June 1965. “Our ultimate end must be precisely what … more →

Tags: Peace Activism, Documentary History Websites, Colleagues of Pauling, Peace Activism, radioactive fallout, Linus Pauling

The Dark Domain: Resurrecting Project Rulison: Part One (in two Parts)

Rob Prince wrote 2 years ago: On Tuesday, October 2 – just a few days from now – The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission … more →

Tags: Colorado, US Middle East Policy Trends, Oil, Project Rulison, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Cheney, project plowshare, Project Gasbuggy, Nancy Fey

WaPo: "Russia Seeks More Control At Academy Of Sciences"

oldatlantic wrote 2 years ago: =Original WaPo Article: “Russia Seeks More Control At Academy Of Sciences” By Peter Finn … more →

Tags: Washington Post, Larry Summers, Stanley Fischer, LTCM, IMF, Klaus Fuchs, Peter Kapitza, Dirac, Niels Bohr

The Washington Post: A Wikipedia Of Secrets2 comments

oldatlantic wrote 3 years ago: By Frank Ahrens Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page F07 “Imagine if, in August 2001, the U.S. intel … more →

Tags: Valery Makarov, Larry Summers, Stanley Fischer, IMF, World Bank, MIT, harvard, Russia's Plagiarism Files, Max Born


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