How to reconcile modernization and dismantlement of nuclear weapons
Why refurbishment and dismantlement of the US nuclear arsenal need not be mutually exclusive pursuits.
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Rising water, falling journalism
Every evening, my father climbs the levee along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and peers down into the black water that swallows the road. The water is rising, and the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee has never faced such a test. Dad, a retired professor, is packing his books and papers. If the levee doesn't hold, his one-story house could be underwater for months.
Robert Oppenheimer: The myth and the mystery
This is the prepared text for a lecture delivered at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 14, 2018 and sponsored by the Santa Fe Opera during its production of Dr. Atomic, which focuses on the atomic bomb and its creators, specifically J. Robert Oppenheimer.
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer
The director of the film "Oppenheimer" tells of how he came to choose the "father of the atomic bomb" as the subject of a movie, and describes how he went about translating the physicist’s sprawling life—as laid out in the 700-plus-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "American Prometheus"—into a single film.
Thought-provoked by ‘Oppenheimer’
Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" authentically conveys the contradictions of the man, some I discovered in a small way, a physicist writes.
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