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...protégé of J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of the youngest physicists assigned to the Manhattan Project; in Cambridge, Mass. A dynamic, legendary M.I.T. professor also known as the host and writer of the inventive 1987 PBS science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green...
It was J. Robert Oppenheimer himself who chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...
...told of verbal attacks, threatening letters, and a bomb that was once placed in her mailbox...
Nearly a year after its unveiling, the second issue of H Bomb is about to come—out to the public, of course. The frigid wait has certainly stimulated concern in students waiting to get their hands (and hopefully keep their hands) on the latest issue...
After a lengthy wait, this longer, juicier edition of H Bomb will be delivered to every campus door. But in the end, the success of the magazine won’t depend on its sheer size, but rather its sustainability...