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...math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late, Physicist Robert E. Fassnacht, 33, was killed, and four other men were injured...
Died. Dr. Stuart Brinkley Jr., 54, physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field...
Timmy tells the story 15 years later in the form of episodic memoirs and unsent messages to Maryann. By now, he is a physicist himself, but a nonfunctioning one, unable to reconcile the remembered excitement, the sense of possibility at Los Alamos with the meanness of technology in the cold...
...Alamogordo test on July 16 demonstrated what the Bomb could do. Some dissenters demanded that the enemy be warned; critics of this course objected that Allied prisoners might be placed in the target area. Still others proposed demonstrations of various kinds-perhaps before an international inspection group, or as Physicist Edward Teller seems to have suggested offhandedly, a highly visible burst right on the Emperor's front porch, in Tokyo...
...York Times, the only journalist to witness the world's first explosion of an atomic bomb, wrote later that he felt as if he had been present at the dawn of creation, when the Lord said, "Let there be light." What came to the mind of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a fragment from the Bhagavad-Gita: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds...