Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

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20 July 2023, 07:19 PM

wtg

Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

Would like to see the movie. Meanwhile, am catching up on history..it's been years since I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

quote:
Who was the real Robert Oppenheimer?

As the movie Oppenheimer is released, Ben Platts-Mills explores the true story of the enigmatic Manhattan Project scientist, and the atomic bomb that made him a "destroyer of worlds".

https://www.bbc.com/future/art...cientist-atomic-bomb

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

20 July 2023, 07:20 PM

wtg

The Blue Flash.

quote:
The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project

https://www.bbc.com/future/art...enheimer-atomic-bomb

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

20 July 2023, 07:25 PM

wtg

I have a little piece of related history. I may have posted a photo of it before.

Dad got it for his 25th anniversary at Argonne National Lab.

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

20 July 2023, 09:19 PM

big al

I am curious to see the movie myself.

I can definitely recommend the book "American Prometheus, The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It's a thorough biography that, to my mind, gave a lot of insight into the man.

Big Al

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21 July 2023, 03:35 PM

wtg

Thanks, Al. I have a hold on it at my library.

Also, I looked up the value of that piece of graphite. Last time I checked it was around $900. The price has almost quadrupled since then.

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

21 July 2023, 03:56 PM

Piano*Dad

Would be a cool find! Actually, a very HOT find.

And yes, I know that collecting Trinitite from the site is illegal.

21 July 2023, 05:45 PM

CHAS

Met a guy who worked at the Alamosa labs when I was visiting the gay B&B near Breckenridge. Think it was around 1998.
He said the labs we could visit him there because nothing was locked and people wandered in and out.
Was near Alamosa planning to see the place when I stopped at a small grocery in the countryside.
There were slabs of salmon and king crab legs on ice. Not a typical country store.

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Several people have eaten my cooking and survived.

22 July 2023, 11:18 AM

Piano*Dad

If I had ever learned about U-234 (that's U Boat 234), I had forgotten.

Hitler's Atomic U-Boat delivery to Japan

Certain irony in U-234 delivering the raw material for U-235.