T HE USE of the newly invented atomic bomb at the end of the second world war changed geopolitics, physics, the nature of the ...
LOS ALAMOS — A sphere of plutonium the size of a grapefruit contains enough energy to erase an entire city from existence. That single fact explains why nuclear weapons remain humanity’s most feared ...
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History of nuclear power: weapons & energy
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In an interview for the Saturday Evening Post in February 1960, J. Robert Oppenheimer reflected on the Trinity Test, the ...
Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions ...
Nuclear effect The deformed shape of the ytterbium-173 nucleus (right) makes it possible to excite the clock transition with a relatively low-power laser. The same transition is forbidden (left) if ...
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