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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
Einstein didn't join scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project. US officials w…
Sonam Sheth
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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Doomsday Clock points closer to the apocalypse, and India is partially to blame
India was tragically one of the reasons behind the Clock's movement as well. Our incessant endeavou…
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Warren Buffett may feel torn about the 'Barbenheimer' clash. He's sold special-edition Barbies and warned about Oppenheimer's atomic bomb.
The investor showed off a line of See's Candies-branded Barbie dolls in 2000, and has described nuc…
Theron Mohamed
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Russia's military is being accused of stealing video game characters from 'Atomic Heart' to promote itself
Game developer Mundfish said it never gave the Russian army permission to use its work, after a Rus…
Matthew Loh
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Christopher Nolan recreates first Nuclear detonation without VFX for his upcoming movie Oppenheimer
The pursuit of keeping things real pushed Christopher Nolan to recreate the first nuclear weapon de…
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Oppenheimer went into a deep depression after reading about the effects of the atomic bomb on Japan and even publicly spoke out against using the bomb
At a meeting with President Harry Truman in 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer told the commander-in-chief…
Rebecca Cohen
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Zelenskyy says images of Hiroshima annihilated by the atomic bomb remind him of Bakhmut and give him hope that Ukraine can rebuild
"Nothing alive is left," the Ukrainian president said while attending the G-7 summit in Japan over …
Chris Panella
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In the age of unhinged social media antics, the official 'Barbie' account embracing atomic bomb memes shows just how close brands dance at the edge of disaster
A post showed Margot Robbie with a mushroom cloud for hair. "This Ken is a stylist," the official "…
Matthew Loh
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'Barbie' blows up 'Oppenheimer' as Greta Gerwig's plastic fantastic looks set to make $100 million more than Christopher Nolan's atomic blockbuster this weekend
According to studio projections seen by The Hollywood Reporter, "Barbie" could take $275 million gl…
Ryan Hogg
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Warren Buffett says AI is like the creation of the atom bomb — he often calls nuclear war his biggest fear
Buffett said AI had the ability to "change everything in the world except how men think and behave,…
Ryan Hogg
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Christopher Nolan says the ending of 'Oppenheimer' drives home the idea that we now live in a world created by the father of the atomic bomb and 'we always will'
The epic three-hour movie on J. Robert Oppenheimer concludes with an eerie foretelling of a world c…
Jason Guerrasio
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5 ways reading 'Atomic Habits' changed how I live and work for the better
"Atomic Habits" taught a copywriter to use "temptation bundling" to make dreaded tasks more enjoyab…
Robin Madell
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A man who survived being stuck in a submersible for 3 days said it felt like there wasn't even 'one atom of hope' left for him as time dragged on
Roger Mallinson managed to survive being stuck inside a submersible for three days, back in Septemb…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'
Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot ha…
Cheryl Teh
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say
One veteran told Insider that exposure to radioactive material could come from anywhere, like eatin…
Jake Epstein
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A Pacific volcano erupted with an explosive force more than 600 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, scientists said
Scientists say the underwater volcano's eruption may be the loudest since Krakatau, a devastating e…
Julie Coleman
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Anti-radiation iodine tablets distributed to residents amid atomic leak fears at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant occupied by Russian forces
Fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is increasing concern about a dangerous …
Bethany Dawson
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Miami's tech scene is having a moment as Silicon Valley power players descend on the city. But not everyone loves the changes they bring.
Silicon Valley is arriving in Miami and bringing their ethos with them: moving fast, disrupting, no…