How does an atomic bomb work? From splitting atoms to changing history, we break down the science, engineering, and impact of nuclear weapons—plus the ethical questions that still haunt us. #NuclearScience #History #AtomicBomb #ScienceExplained
https://theurbanherald.com/how-atomic-bomb-works/

“I bambini giocano sotto un cielo che potrebbe scomparire in un lampo di luce.”
- Canto della pianura, Kent Haruf

#guerra #atomicbomb #nuclear #citazioni #romanzi

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#atomicbomb

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, The National (US) WWII Museum presents 1945, a new 6-part podcast series.
Hear from experts like Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Frank, John McManus, Rebecca Erbelding, and Stephanie Hinnershitz.
Series homepage includes links to Reading List and various podcast platforms.

#Podcast #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #Nuremberg #Tokyo #AtomicBomb

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/podcasts/1945

"At the war's start, Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu didn't rule out Israel using an #atomicbomb. Effectively, the proportion of structures that have been eradicated in Rafah and in Jabalya refugee camp [in #Gaza] is higher than what was destroyed in #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki."

Source: Haaretz, June 12, 2025

🔗 https://archive.ph/Kmd68

#Israel #Genocide #Völkermord

The Foreign Ministry of #SaudiArabia "expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the blatant Israeli aggressions against the brotherly Islamic Republic of #Iran "...

#BestJoke #YouMadeMyDay

#Israel #nuclear #nuclearweapons #atomicbomb

I recommend #FranckVonHippel's on #RichardGarwin (von Hippel's grandfather was James Franck whose #FranckReport advised AGAINST an actual use of the #atomicBomb and advised to use it as a DEMONSTRATION in "an appropriately selected uninhabited area")

https://thebulletin.org/2025/05/richard-garwin-the-socially-responsible-public-and-government-advisor

Oh Yeah Review by Steve Huey

..Oh Yeah often gets downright warped. That's partly because Mingus is freed up to vocalize more often, but it's also due to the presence of mad genius Roland Kirk..It's a shame Kirk only spent three months with the band, because his solo interpretations are such symbiotic reflections of Mingus' intent as a composer. Look no further than "Hog Callin' Blues," a stomping "Haitian Fight Song" descendant where Kirk honks and roars the blues like a man possessed. Mingus' vocal selections radiate the same dementia, whether it's the stream-of-consciousness blues couplets on "Devil Woman," the dark-humored modern-day spiritual "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me,"...Oh Yeah is probably the most offbeat Mingus album ever, and that's what makes it so vital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXiYhe_YfNk&list=OLAK5uy_mG1casFMlkbr7DaVgs4vMjoX5Wuyuo0Yw

#charlesmingus #rolandkirk #atomicbomb #jazz #bookerervin

If governments hadn't funded science, we wouldn't have the atomic bomb. #science #atomicbomb

Today in History, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. In addition to being one of the most significant physicists of all time, he was also a pacifist. Yet his letter to President Roosevelt warning of the Nazi progress on atomic weapons research was arguably key to the U.S. implementation of the Manhatton Project, a decision he later lamented. In 1955, well after the Cold War and nuclear arms race had begun, he and ten other intellectuals and scientists, including other Nobel Prize laureates, like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling, wrote a manifesto warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Einstein also participated in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, calling racism America’s “worst disease.” Later in his life he began to support socialism, and he criticized the Bolsheviks for their barbarism. Einstein was also a Zionist, and supported Jews’ right to return to Palestine. However, he did not support a Jewish state, or an Arab state, to replace Mandatory Palestine. Rather, he wanted a free, bi-national Palestine in which Jews and Arabs shared sovereignty, living peacefully and equally with each other.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #einstein #nazis #pacifism #antisemitism #zionism #palestine #israel #physics #atomicbomb #nuclear #socialism #civilrights #racism #nobelprize

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. #History #Aircraft #AtomicBomb #Bomber #Hiroshima #ManhattanProject #Nagasaki #SecondWorldWar #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24117-en/

FYI: How the Atomic Bomb Shaped the Culture of the 1950s https://classichistoria.com/articles/how-the-atomic-bomb-shaped-the-culture-of-the-1950s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AtomicBomb #ColdWar #1950sCulture #AtomicAge #History

#Pioneering female #Chinese #American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with Robert #Oppenheimer on the #ManhattanProject, was also the first to confirm #QuantumEntanglement – just 14 years after Albert #Einstein questioned the phenomenon. The largely forgotten achievement was included in a profile of Wu, one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century, published in the December 2024 issue of Physics Today.

Wu is also believed to have been the only Chinese scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, the World War II initiative to develop an #AtomicBomb led by Oppenheimer, who affectionately referred to her as Jiejie, which means elder sister, the article said.

Wu’s experiment – detailed in a paper published in 1950 – was conducted before the #scientific community had fully grasped the significance of quantum entanglement, the article noted.

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3298449/quantum-entanglement-theory-first-proved-chinese-woman-1949

#AsianMastodon #ChineseScientists #WomenInScience #PioneeringScienceWomen #Scientist #QuantumPhysics #SciencePioneer #ChineseWomen #Physicists

#Elon #Milei #usa #musk #books #music #bitcoin #humor #AI #satire #parody #funny #jokes #freedom #optimism

How funny. What #Trump and his minions are doing is Almighty, for they will not yield, and if we fight, we will be the destroyers. And what does it matter who wins? (#Atomicbomb)

Everything that is said in mass is metaphorically true, right?

Go to mass if only to shake someone's hand and know what is said there.

And embrace Christianity again.

ICYMI: How the Atomic Bomb Shaped the Culture of the 1950s https://classichistoria.com/articles/how-the-atomic-bomb-shaped-the-culture-of-the-1950s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AtomicBomb #CulturalHistory #1950sCulture #AtomicAge #ColdWar

Book recommendation:
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas.
My review:
https://coyotebroad.com/blawg/2025/02/05/book-rec-road-to-surrender/
#History #Ethics #AtomicBomb #NuclearWarfare

Five revelations about St. Louis’ history with radioactive waste

By: Allison Kite - July 12, 2023

"The #MissouriIndependent and #MuckRock spent months scouring thousands of pages of government records about St. Louis’ involvement in the race to build an #AtomicBomb during World War II and decades of #environmental #contamination that followed.

"Journalists sought to lay bare the degree to which government officials knew of the spreading contamination and the danger it posed to St. Louis County residents.

"While the contamination at the #WestLakeLandfill and in #ColdwaterCreek has been covered extensively for decades, documents obtained by the newsrooms revealed the way federal officials failed to take stronger measures to protect the health of St. Louis-area residents."

Read more:
https://missouriindependent.com/2023/07/12/five-revelations-about-st-louis-history-with-radioactive-waste/
#RadioactiveContamination #ColdWar #SaintLouisMissouri

How the Atomic Bomb Shaped the Culture of the 1950s https://classichistoria.com/articles/how-the-atomic-bomb-shaped-the-culture-of-the-1950s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AtomicBomb #1950sCulture #AtomicAge #ColdWar #NuclearHistory

How the Atomic Bomb Shaped the Culture of the 1950s https://classichistoria.com/articles/how-the-atomic-bomb-shaped-the-culture-of-the-1950s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AtomicBomb #1950sCulture #AtomicAge #ColdWar #CulturalImpact