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Graphic Histories: Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm | Erstwhile: A History Blog
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Tangents of Trinity
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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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The Gadget, the first atomic bomb, 1945 - Rare Historical Photos
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| | The nuclear test was codenamed Trinity, but the atomic device was nicknamed The Gadget.
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Top Secret: clandestine introduction of nuclear weapons into the UK |
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| | Much has been written about the dread experienced byJ. Robert Oppenheimerfollowing the detonation of Trinity in 1945, depicted inChristopher Nolan's new movie biopicof 'the father of the atomic bomb' But one of the most chilling outcomes of the Cold War nuclear stand-off that followed was the fear that a nuclear device could be smuggled into...
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The Universal Plot: Part I - Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators | Qualia Computing
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| "It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,...