Review of The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era, by Craig Nelson (Scribner 2014), 448 pages, ISBN- 978-1451660432 The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall ...

On August 6, 1945, the sky above the Japanese city of Hiroshima opened. A blinding flash, then a deafening sonic boom. An entire city pulverized in seconds. Thus began the nuclear age. Today, 80 years ...

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn’t ...

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HANDLE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO TODAY, THE U.S. DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON THE JAPANESE CITY OF HIROSHIMA. THREE DAYS LATER, A SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. THEY ...

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As global concern over nuclear tensions periodically resurfaces, one of the world’s leading historians of nuclear weapons has ...

Here’s a Times Union reporter’s account of his interview with the physicist in the days after two atomic bombs fell on Japan The front page of the Times Union on Aug. 12, 1945, featured an exclusive ...

We scientists tend to tell our story via breakthroughs — paradigm shifts that shake the foundations of knowledge and remake everyone’s understanding of how the world works. It’s a tale of high-flying, ...