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🌜Galactic Stone🌛<p>The story of the search for Miss Atomic Bomb.</p><p>Link : <a href="https://apnews.com/article/miss-atomic-bomb-las-vegas-real-name-741ce5a943912cd893b7f83bf367d7ad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/miss-atomic</span><span class="invisible">-bomb-las-vegas-real-name-741ce5a943912cd893b7f83bf367d7ad</span></a></p><p>Genuine trinitite at : <a href="https://galactic-stone.com/trinitite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">galactic-stone.com/trinitite/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wwii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wwii</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trinitite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trinitite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
🌜Galactic Stone🌛<p>Trinitite, atom bomb glass from the historic Manhattan Project.</p><p>Link : <a href="https://galactic-stone.com/trinitite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">galactic-stone.com/trinitite/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99 - As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathemati... - <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science</span><span class="invisible">/peter-lax-dead.html</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computersandtheinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computersandtheinternet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/deaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deaths</span></a>(obituaries) <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/manhattanproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manhattanproject</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/nuclearweapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearweapons</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/supercomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supercomputers</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/coldwarera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwarera</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/laxpeterd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laxpeterd</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Achieving AGI is the explicit goal of companies like OpenAI and much of the AI research community. It is treated as a milestone in the same way as building and delivering a nuclear weapon was the key goal of the Manhattan Project.</p><p>This goal made sense as a milestone in the Manhattan Project for two reasons. The first is observability. In developing nuclear weapons, there can be no doubt about whether you’re reached the goal or not — an explosion epitomizes observability. The second is immediate impact. The use of nuclear weapons contributed to a quick end to World War 2. It also ushered in a new world order — a long-term transformation of geopolitics.</p><p>Many people have the intuition that AGI will have these properties. It will be so powerful and humanlike that it will be obvious when we’ve built it. And it will immediately bring massive benefits and risks — automation of a big swath of the economy, a great acceleration of innovation, including AI research itself, and potentially catastrophic consequences for humanity from uncontrollable superintelligence.</p><p>In this essay, we argue that AGI will be exactly the opposite — it is unobservable because there is no clear capability threshold that has particular significance; it will have no immediate impact on the world; and even a long-term transformation of the economy is uncertain."</p><p><a href="https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/agi-is-not-a-milestone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aisnakeoil.com/p/agi-is-not-a-</span><span class="invisible">milestone</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AGI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIBubble</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/STS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STS</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>petergleick</span></a></span> No problem, eh. Canadians were key to developing the first nuclear weapons at Los Alamos and other secret sites of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> , one of which was *in* <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> (Chalk River, Ontario). <a href="https://torontosun.com/news/national/the-life-and-tragic-death-of-the-canadian-who-built-the-bomb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torontosun.com/news/national/t</span><span class="invisible">he-life-and-tragic-death-of-the-canadian-who-built-the-bomb</span></a></p><p>Btw, a Canadian is the *current* Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory.</p>
KatLS<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carstenfranke</span></a></span> in <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/stlouis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stlouis</span></a> we are too well dusted ourselves- especially north of interstate 70. <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/coldwatercreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwatercreek</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/manhattanproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manhattanproject</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/WestlakeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestlakeLandfill</span></a></p>
World History Encyclopedia<p>The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aircraft</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bomber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bomber</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nagasaki</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SecondWorldWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondWorldWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HistoryFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryFact</span></a> <a href="https://whe.to/ci/1-24117-en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">whe.to/ci/1-24117-en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pioneering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pioneering</span></a> female <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with Robert <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> on the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a>, was also the first to confirm <a href="https://beige.party/tags/QuantumEntanglement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumEntanglement</span></a> – just 14 years after Albert <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Einstein</span></a> questioned the phenomenon. The largely forgotten achievement was included in a profile of Wu, one of the most influential experimental physicists of the 20th century, published in the December 2024 issue of Physics Today.</p><p>Wu is also believed to have been the only Chinese scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, the World War II initiative to develop an <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AtomicBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicBomb</span></a> led by Oppenheimer, who affectionately referred to her as Jiejie, which means elder sister, the article said.</p><p>Wu’s experiment – detailed in a paper published in 1950 – was conducted before the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientific</span></a> community had fully grasped the significance of quantum entanglement, the article noted.</p><p><a href="https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3298449/quantum-entanglement-theory-first-proved-chinese-woman-1949" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amp.scmp.com/news/china/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e/article/3298449/quantum-entanglement-theory-first-proved-chinese-woman-1949</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChineseScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseScientists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomenInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInScience</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PioneeringScienceWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PioneeringScienceWomen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/QuantumPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SciencePioneer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciencePioneer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChineseWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseWomen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Physicists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physicists</span></a></p>
New Mexico Nomad<p>A road trip through New Mexico’s atomic past <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23travel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23NewMexico" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23tourism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tourism</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23roadtrip" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#roadtrip</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ManhattanProject" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManhattanProject</a><br><br><a href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.8/travel-a-road-trip-through-new-mexicos-atomic-past" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A road trip through New Mexico...</a></p>
JL Johnson :veri_mast:<p>Today’s <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/TMYK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TMYK</span></a> (3/365) is also a <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/PSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PSA</span></a>: The guidelines for visiting the Trinity test site (location of the first nuclear weapon detonation) have been revised. </p><p>Visitors are now permitted only one day per year (used to be two) and the Alamogordo Caravan has been indefinitely canceled. 😭</p><p>There is good news, though. Signups are no longer required and it doesn’t seem there’s a cap on attendance. </p><p>I know where I plan to be on October 18! </p><p>Deets: <a href="https://home.army.mil/wsmr/contact/public-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">home.army.mil/wsmr/contact/pub</span><span class="invisible">lic-affairs-office/trinity-site-open-house</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/NuclearHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearHistory</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/AtomicHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicHeritage</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/manhattanproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manhattanproject</span></a></p>
New Mexico Nomad<p>The Moment in Time: A Documentary on Wartime Los Alamos - <a href="https://youtu.be/nm3jR1DAYn0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/nm3jR1DAYn0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atomic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/weaponsdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weaponsdevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a></p>
🌜Galactic Stone🌛<p>Trinity Test Site photo journal featuring trinitite.</p><p>Link : <a href="https://www.dnews.com/stories/nuclear-ground-zero-17956527" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dnews.com/stories/nuclear-grou</span><span class="invisible">nd-zero-17956527</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trinitite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trinitite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trinity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>It Will Take 25 Trucks Per Week Until 2025 To Dispose Of Nuclear Waste From The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a><br>A special waste disposal site in Michigan will handle the 80 year old <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> waste<br><a href="https://jalopnik.com/it-will-take-25-trucks-per-week-until-2025-to-dispose-o-1851626243" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jalopnik.com/it-will-take-25-t</span><span class="invisible">rucks-per-week-until-2025-to-dispose-o-1851626243</span></a></p>
🌜Galactic Stone🌛<p>My trinitite pendants got mentioned in a Hack-A-Day article.</p><p>Link : <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/09/04/boss-byproducts-the-terrible-beauty-of-trinitite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/09/04/boss-b</span><span class="invisible">yproducts-the-terrible-beauty-of-trinitite/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trinitite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trinitite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeologyRocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeologyRocks</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>The <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a> plans to build a 1 GW <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/solarfarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarfarm</span></a> on a former top-secret <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> site in Washington State.<br>The DOE’s plan is to work with Hecate Energy to repurpose the Hanford Site, an 8,000-acre federal land site, as part of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CleanupToCleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleanupToCleanEnergy</span></a> initiative launched in July 2023. The program aims to repurpose parts of DOE-owned lands – parts of which were previously used in the US’s nuclear weapons program – for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cleanenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleanenergy</span></a> generation. <a href="https://electrek.co/2024/07/31/the-us-to-turn-a-manhattan-project-nuclear-site-into-a-1-gw-solar-farm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electrek.co/2024/07/31/the-us-</span><span class="invisible">to-turn-a-manhattan-project-nuclear-site-into-a-1-gw-solar-farm/</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bojacobs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p>Thank you for this sharply argued deconstruction of the way Hiroshima is being remembered. Deeply insightful.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>responsibility</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> miners, people <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>downwind</span></a> of atom bomb tests demand justice as Congress lets aid program lapse </p><p>by Keetra Bippus / Cronkite News<br>July 5, 2024 </p><p>WASHINGTON – "A federal program to compensate people exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing expired June 10.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radiation</span></a> Exposure Compensation Act has paid out $2.6 billion to over 41,000 people since 1992. In March, the U.S. Justice Department projected that another 1,070 claims would be approved by the end of September.</p><p>“'Why do we have to beg to pass <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RECA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RECA</span></a>?' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaggieBilliman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaggieBilliman</span></a>, whose father, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoCodeTalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoCodeTalker</span></a> during World War II, died of stomach cancer she attributes to exposure to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a> that affected their hometown in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a>. 'You don’t put a price tag on human life.'</p><p>"Starting with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a>’s Trinity test on July 16, 1945, weeks before bombs destroyed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nagasaki</span></a>, the U.S. government conducted 94 tests that produced radioactive mushroom clouds in remote areas of the West. Most were over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a>. One was over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>.</p><p>"People <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>downwind</span></a> – including many in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> – were exposed to dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a>, typically without warning.</p><p>"The Billimans’ hometown, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SawmillArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SawmillArizona</span></a>, on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoLand</span></a>, is part of the large affected area where Congress made residents eligible for compensation.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radioactive</span></a> particles fell throughout Arizona, according to research from Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. The state’s population grew from about half a million just before World War II to over 1.3 million in the early 1960s.</p><p>"Congress adopted RECA in 1992 to address claims from downwinders and uranium miners.</p><p>"The program offers an apology, and lump sum compensation ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 to those who developed certain illnesses linked with radiation exposure, and who either lived in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalloutZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FalloutZones</span></a> or worked at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMines</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMills</span></a>.</p><p>"The law came in response to lawsuits from uranium workers who accused the government of failing to warn them about radiation hazards.</p><p>From 1944 to 1986, nearly 30 million tons of uranium ore was extracted from Navajo lands. The Manhattan Project itself, led by physicist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RobertOppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertOppenheimer</span></a>, was disbanded in 1947, two years after Japan surrendered to end World War II.</p><p>"An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Navajo people worked in the mines. They and their families lived nearby.</p><p>“'The closer you live to mine waste, the higher your risk of chronic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/metabolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metabolic</span></a> disease,' said Chris Shuey, director of the Uranium Impact Assessment Program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. 'People who live in these communities next to these wastes, they’re exposed through all of the pathways: air, water, land.'</p><p>"Claims from Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colorado</span></a> account for $1.8 billion of the payouts under RECA.</p><p>"Most of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> was covered due to potential fallout. About one in seven approved claims – 5,480 through the end of 2023 – have come from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a>, 86% of them Navajo, totalling $372.6 million.</p><p>"The Environmental Protection Agency counts 523 abandoned uranium mines on or near the Navajo reservation that spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, an area bigger than Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont combined.</p><p>"The Senate voted 69-31 in March to extend the RECA filing period for five more years, with 46 Democrats and 20 Republicans in favor, along with Sen. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KrystenSinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KrystenSinema</span></a> of Arizona and two other independents. Sen. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarkKelly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkKelly</span></a>, D-Ariz., also supported the bill.</p><p>The bill has stalled in the House, with no explanation from Speaker Mike Johnson or Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both Republicans from Louisiana. </p><p>"Their aides did not respond to multiple requests for comment."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07</span><span class="invisible">/05/navajo-uranium-miners-people-downwind-atom-bomb-tests-demand-justice/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Downwinders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BanTheBomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BanTheBomb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICANN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ<p>💥🍄 Today, 79 years ago to the near minute, 5:29 a.m. MWT (12:29:21 BST) on July 16, 1945, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trinity</span></a> the code name of the first detonation of a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapon, was conducted by the 🇺🇸 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Army</span></a> as part of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a>.</p><p>The test was of an implosion-design <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> bomb, nicknamed "the gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nagasaki</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> on August 9, 1945.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Women in science</p><p>Katharine Way &amp; John Wheeler: Dawn of Nuclear Fission<br><a href="https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/katharine-way-john-wheeler-and-dawn-nuclear-fission" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amphilsoc.org/blog/katharine-w</span><span class="invisible">ay-john-wheeler-and-dawn-nuclear-fission</span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40872672" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">0872672</span></a></p><p>UCLA bio: <a href="http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Way,_Katharine@862427327.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Wa</span><span class="invisible">y,_Katharine@862427327.html</span></a></p><p>Katharine Way: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Way" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharin</span><span class="invisible">e_Way</span></a></p><p>* later life interested in health problems of seniors; lobbied for improved health care for them<br>* Durham Seniors for Better Health</p><p>Meet the Physicist who Spoke Out against the Bomb She Helped Create<br><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-physicist-who-spoke-out-against-the-bomb-she-helped-create" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/meet-the-physicist-who-spoke-out-against-the-bomb-she-helped-create</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NuclearPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KatharineWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KatharineWay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManhattanProject</span></a></p>
Papers We Love<p>Ignition of the Atmosphere with Nuclear Bombs by E. Teller et al</p><p>June 20th in the Washington DC area</p><p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-dc-nova/events/301203018/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meetup.com/papers-we-love-dc-n</span><span class="invisible">ova/events/301203018/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/paperswelove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paperswelove</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/dmv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmv</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nukes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/manhattanproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manhattanproject</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/meetup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetup</span></a></p>
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