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2012
July 2012
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A rare first-hand account of the first atomic bomb test, from the President of Harvard University.
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Visions
A new comic book series imagines the Manhattan Project as a sci-fi odyssey.
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Enrico Fermi is today remembered as a great contributor to the American bomb project, but in the beginning, he was an "enemy alien."
June 2012
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A new theory on why Joseph Rotblat left Los Alamos, and Groves' warning to the AEC that he had "doubts" about certain people on the project.
May 2012
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Barely a month after the bombings of Hiroshima, the Army Air Forces made its first request for more atomic bombs — and a list of targets.
April 2012
27
Visions
Stalin was a paranoid guy, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
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General Groves gets grilled by the press at Oak Ridge on the subject of "the secret," the "Super," and radioactivity at Hiroshima.
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Meditations
Incredible secrecy plus boring jobs equaled a morale problem. Manhattan Project administrators found an unusual solution: sports.
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One of the trickiest parts of the Manhattan Project was the fact that it was a secret; that there was *a* secret was *the* secret.
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What did General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer talk about in their first post-Hiroshima telephone call?
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Meditations
People are often calling for a "new Manhattan Project," but does that make any sense?
March 2012
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The unusual history of insuring the bomb in the United States — yes, insurance — dates back to the Manhattan Project.
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The degree to which the UK and Canada should be equal partners with the US in the atomic bomb project was a controversial subject in 1942.
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It should come as no surprise that so much of the work of secrecy is creating ever more baroque and detailed categorization schemes.
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It's 1945, just after the Trinity test. Where is General Leslie Groves looking?
February 2012
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General Groves' scientific adviser discusses the implications of the US stopping the production of atomic bombs just after WWII.
January 2012
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News and Notes
In early 1942, General Leslie Groves wrote to the future author of the famous Smyth Report for advice about whether his son study physics.
2011
December 2011
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Visions
In their quest for appearing serious about secrecy, the U.S. government has gotten increasingly dull in its graphics design.
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Communicating the results of the first atomic bomb from Tinian to Washington, DC, was no easy thing.
