Atomic
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Two decades after helping to design the first atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, was asked to describe how he felt after the bomb’s first test. “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky," he quoted from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, "that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.”
Atomic Trucker | Motherboard
The Fermi I reactor was a breeder located at Lagoona Beach, 30 miles from Detroit.
Nuclear Accidents
We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the US and USSR would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII.
5 Times We Almost Nuked Ourselves By Accident | Gizmodo Australia
This is a video documenting the location and country responsible for all 2,053 known nuclear explosions between 1945-1998. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? If you answered, "Jesus, how are we all not dead ?"
