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| | The Wendover Base Operations Building with restored Control Tower. Today a sleepy airport, 80 years ago a very busy place I have always enjoyed seeing places of historical importance, with their evidence of importance hidden in plain sight. Virginia City, Nevada is such a place. To most of the visitors, it is simply an old...
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| | On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the kind of solemn respect-even reverence-that most members of what Tom Brokaw labeled "the greatest generation"
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| | Recommending a few books which touch on aspects of the Manhattan Project: The Last Man who Knew Everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi - David Schwartz Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves - Robert S Norris The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut The Last Man who Knew Everything is a historical and scientific biography of Enrico Fermi. We learn about Fermi, his work, and best of all we hear the story of the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction under the University of Chicago.
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