T HE USE of the newly invented atomic bomb at the end of the second world war changed geopolitics, physics, the nature of the ...
In an interview for the Saturday Evening Post in February 1960, J. Robert Oppenheimer reflected on the Trinity Test, the ...
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History of nuclear power: weapons & energy
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Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...
Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...
Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...
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