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A cross taken from a Nagasaki cathedral after the atomic bombing gets returned 74 years later

By Matt Field | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons

Operation Epsilon, a 2013 play performed at Boston’s Central Square Theater, is based on conversations among Germany’s top nuclear scientists while under surveillance by the Allies at an estate in England. Credit: A. R. Sinclair Photography

Operation Epsilon, a 2013 play performed at Boston’s Central Square Theater, is based on conversations among Germany’s top nuclear scientists while under surveillance by the Allies at an estate in England. Credit: A. R. Sinclair Photography

Scientific blinders: Learning from the moral failings of Nazi physicists

By Talia Weiss | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow