But the end of the war meant that the machine was needed for many other types of calculations — sonic waves, weather patterns, and the explosive power
of atom bombs — that would require it to be reprogrammed often.
Elizabeth Anscombe noted this in reviewing the justifications offered for the use
of the atom bomb.
He is willing to live in peace and good will with anybody on earth and believes we can, provided we keep the secret
of the atom bomb to ourselves and keep a good supply on hand to be ready for the Russians.
Ever heard
of the atom bomb?
Announcement of the event was made in Hawaii last Saturday, the 43rd anniversary of the dropping
of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
On January 27, 1951, the Atomic Energy Commission tested the first of a series
of atom bombs outside Las Vegas.
It had released an official history
of the atom bomb project that assigned great weight to a letter Einstein had written to President Franklin Roosevelt warning of the destructive potential of an atomic chain reaction.
And he claimed to a Japanese publication, «My participation in the production
of the atom bomb consisted in a single act: I signed a letter to President Roosevelt.»
Gritty with detail, Radiance captures thrilling moments of discovery (and occasionally failure): We see Enrico Fermi sprinting through corridors en route to a new element — and a Nobel — and hold our breath alongside Robert Oppenheimer in the desert as a clock counts down the seconds to the first test
of an atom bomb.
Such mission - focused labs led to major technical and scientific strides in fields such as nuclear power, advanced materials, and supercomputing that came out
of the atom bomb and space programs.
The collision released an immense amount of energy — equivalent to billions
of atom bombs the size of those dropped on Japan during World War II.
It countered the negative effects of the radiation
of the atom bomb.
But the high - minded story about the creators
of the atom bomb soon picks up the pace.
A photograph
of an atom bomb explosion is shown.
Shorris eloquently offers a penetrating and unsettling look at American fear birthed by the horrors
of the atom bomb and nurtured by 9/11 that promises to have an enduring impact on global and domestic policy for generations to come.
It is clear that the development and use
of the atom bomb at the end of World War II, followed by the development of the hydrogen bomb in the early» 50's, had a decisive effect on the subject matter of both Abstract Expressionism and the Beat literature of the period.
With this usage goes the idea that the ideology of modernism was significantly re-shaped by the events of World War II, especially the Holocaust and the dropping
of the atom bomb.
Roy Lichtenstein made paintings
of an atom bomb filtered through the Pop master's signature Ben - day dot style, portraying the dark side of the Cold War era.
To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates
of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?
We're wondering too, if Yuliya's gorgeous paper crane dress (more photos after the jump) is a stylish but fitting fashion tribute to a well - known young victim
of the atom bomb back in World War II.Sadako Sasaki, an eleven - year - old Japanese girl who developed leukemia years after the dropping of the atomic bomb near her home, was made famous by her quest to fold one thousand paper cranes so that she could be granted the wish to get well.
Not exact matches
Short
of dropping an
atom bomb on Europe, I don't see there's any way
of getting the U.S. demands met.
Imagine that you are President Truman and you are faced with the choice
of using the
Atom Bomb to end the war against Japan.
This is the bare frame
of the social biography
of the Minjung who suffered through the
atom bomb explosion in 1945.
The bodily pain, disfiguration and destruction are practically beyond description.The loss
of memory is a coqon phenomenon among the Korean
atom bomb sufferers.
Certainly we have no way
of telling the story
of the Korean
atom bomb victims in terms
of their total suffering.
This shadow world «works» pragmatically to take advantage
of the physical environment, as when the steam engine or the
atom bomb was developed.
The decision to drop the
Atom Bomb was that sort
of decision.
The scientific revolution
of the twentieth century has totally revamped the notion
of the matter which constitutes nature — matter is now viewed as internally dynamic, suffused with energy, this being the relation between matter and energy so vividly apparent when an
atom bomb goes off.
More extracts from a 1945 Sheed and Ward book «God and the
Atom» written shortly after the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima.
Extracts from a 1945 Sheed and Ward book «God and the
Atom» written shortly after the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima... we felt certain till now, we could not do without God as the explanation
of things, now we are not quite so certain.
And out
of this unimaginable hell a man envisions again an unbelievable grace, and writes in language which wildly fuses destroying
atom bombs and the descending Holy Ghost:
Crawford's biography
of T. S. Eliot's early years depicts art and criticism living uncomfortably together between the 1915 publication
of Prufrock and Other Poems and the 1922 detonation
of that literary
atom bomb, The Waste Land.
Isaac Newton the Newtonian Revolution Anglican William Harvey Circulation
of the Blood Anglican Charles Darwin Evolution Anglican; Unitarian Christiaan Huygens the Wave Theory
of Light Calvinist Leonard Euler Eighteenth - Century Mathematics Calvinist Alexander Fleming Penicillin Catholic Andreas Vesalius the New Anatomy Catholic Antoine Laurent Lavoisier the Revolution in Chemistry Catholic Enrico Fermi Atomic Physics Catholic Erwin Schrodinger Wave Mechanics Catholic Galileo Galilei the New Science Catholic Louis Pasteur the Germ Theory
of Disease Catholic Marcello Malpighi Microscopic Anatomy Catholic Marie Curie Radioactivity Catholic Gregor Mendel the Laws
of Inheritance Catholic (Augustinian monk) Nicolaus Copernicus the Heliocentric Universe Catholic (priest) Carl Linnaeus the Binomial Nomenclature Christianity Anton van Leeuwenhoek the Simple Microscope Dutch Reformed Albert Einstein Twentieth - Century Science Jewish Claude Levi - Strauss Structural Anthropology Jewish Edward Teller the
Bomb Jewish Franz Boas Modern Anthropology Jewish Hans Bethe the Energy
of the Sun Jewish J. Robert Oppenheimer the Atomic Era Jewish Jonas Salk Vaccination Jewish Karl Landsteiner the Blood Groups Jewish Lynn Margulis Symbiosis Theory Jewish Murray Gell - Mann the Eightfold Way Jewish Paul Ehrlich Chemotherapy Jewish Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Jewish Sheldon Glashow the Discovery
of Charm Jewish William Herschel the Discovery
of the Heavens Jewish John von Neumann the Modern Computer Jewish Catholic Max Born Quantum Mechanics Jewish Lutheran Neils Bohr the
Atom Jewish Lutheran Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) Mathematical Genius Lutheran Johannes Kepler Motion
of the Planets Lutheran Linus Pauling Twentieth - Century Chemistry Lutheran Tycho Brahe the New Astronomy Lutheran Werner Heisenberg Quantum Theory Lutheran James Clerk Maxwell the Electromagnetic Field Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist Max Planck the Quanta Protestant Arthur Eddington Modern Astronomy Quaker John Dalton the Theory
of the
Atom Quaker Theodosius Dobzhansky the Modern Synthesis Russian Orthodox Trofim Lysenko Soviet Genetics Russian Orthodox Michael Faraday the Classical Field Theory Sandemanian
In 1945 the whole world was stunned by the explosion
of the first
atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
Now we have the
atom bomb, and all other sorts
of ways to kill each other.
In an age
of atom and hydrogen
bombs — an age when the destruction
of the whole world is possible — we are finally accepting the view that the church must take a clear stand for peace.
I'm just interested in the comparison between Iran and Pakistan: one
of them has an
atom bomb, and everybody is worried about the country that doesn't yet.
Even today, when many people have at least a rudimentary understanding
of atomic
bombs and know that the source
of their vast energy is the splitting
of atoms, few have any idea what heavy water is or its role in splitting those
atoms.
In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features
of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines
of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the
atom bomb.
Other proposals include the radionuclide spike in the wake
of the first
atom bomb explosion in 1945 to a dip in CO2 levels around 1610 occasioned by the mass deaths that followed European arrival in North and South America a century or so earlier.
For the teams that designed the
atom bomb, radar, even Bell Labs» transistor, one common factor was a selection
of superstars from different scientific backgrounds.
Also worked on the
atom bomb, a role that prompted him to help found a journal, the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists, devoted to science and social responsibility.
At the same time, the transcripts leave no doubt that the German push towards the
atom bomb was very far from success at the end
of the war.
Radioactive carbon - 14
atoms released by atomic
bombs are helping scientists determine the birthdays
of new neurons in the hippocampus (inset).
The National Radiological Protection Board's advice is based on a re-evaluation
of data on survivors
of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima
atom bombs, which estimates that the risks from radiation are three times as high as previously thought.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy
of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin; Alfred A. Knopf, $ 35 Like the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus, Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer captured the
atom and gave the world the
bomb.
-- was as powerful as they were; but during their lifetime they witnessed the introduction
of the repeat - action rifle, the machine gun, the airplane, the missile, and the
atom bomb.
Its precision comes from a very patient, repetitious series
of call - and - responses that arrives at that
atom bomb of a punchline.
We might think it's a painting
of Marilyn Monroe, we might think it's a painting
of a car crash or the
atom bomb or a Campbell's soup can.
Writer - director Alex Garland has made an
atom bomb of a movie, fiery and all - consuming and quite unnatural.