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...From August 1 until November 27, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum will host “Degas at Harvard,” an exhibition of over 60 of the French artist’s pieces, in media ranging from sculpture to sonnet...
...NASA chief Sean O'Keefe called the White House and a Cabinet office that didn't even exist when the Challenger crashed: Homeland Security. "There are no survivors," the President said, but by then we had been watching the endless video of what looked like the shooting stars of August, knowing that those bright white puffs of star were made of metal and rubber and men and women. Like other fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while it felt like an attack on the calm of this watchful winter...
...read the letter and looked out the window. Then he turned around and said, "Thank you very much Commander." Then he said, "Don't those people out there know that we're running a war out here? It's February and you can't have it out here until August?" I told him that it was quite obvious from the state of development that it would be no earlier than August, and, in fact, it'd be lucky to be August...
...headquarters to make this selection. That was in February 1945. I was given a letter that told Admiral Nimitz, who was located in Guam at the time, that there was being developed an atomic bomb, which would be in his area, in the Pacific, around the first of August of 1945. The letter was classified top secret and I was the custodian. I got myself a money belt and strapped it around my middle. I took it from Washington all the way to Guam, flying on military transport service. When I arrived in Guam, I went straight to Adm. Nimitz...
...about May of 1945, we relocated to Tinian. And around August 1st, we got a message from Washington, that the use of bomb had been released by the President. But it should not be dropped before the 2nd of August. The real limitation from then on was the weather in Japan. The first permissible weather was on the 6th of August. Our mission [Nagasaki] would be on the 9th. It had pretty much been...