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2015
November 2015
13
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At what point did the Manhattan Project scientists and administrators realize they weren't in a race with Nazi Germany after all?
October 2015
23
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How far would Manhattan Project security go to deal with a problematic genius?
2014
June 2014
27
Meditations
How important was Albert Einstein's work or personal intervention to the making of the atomic bomb? Not as important as most people think.
May 2014
16
Meditations
Leo Szilard conceived of the nuclear chain reaction 5 years before fission was discovered. What was he really thinking, and why didn't anyone listen?
February 2014
14
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In a short story published in 1949, Leo Szilard contemplated how well he and President Truman would fare at a war crimes tribunal. His conclusion: not well.
2013
March 2013
29
Meditations
How many ways are there to talk about secrecy? Quite a few.
2012
September 2012
28
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A debate by Leo Szilard and Edward Teller on the moral responsibility of the scientist just before the bombing of Hiroshima.
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