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Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 are limited nuclear war. It is limited because the United States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff
...valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne's poetry in a volume that he had been reading: "Batter my heart, three-person'd God." "Trinity," he said over the phone, "we'll call it Trinity...
...rightly worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons abroad, got Congress to pass a law requiring that the U.S. sell nuclear fuel pragmatism to countries complying with the terms of the international nuclear nonproliferation treaty of 1968. The treaty requires nations without nuclear weapons to open all of their atomic reactors to international inspection to make sure they are not manufacturing ingredients for bombs. India has not signed the treaty, though it had previously agreed to permit inspection of the Tarapur reactor. But India has refused to allow outsiders to visit its other reactors, arguing that while it was devoted...
circa 1920: First atom split...
Professor Theodore Richards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told his colleagues he split the atom. Twenty years later, many of the men responsible for the Manhattan Project left Cambridge for Los Alamos...