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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts) Fri Jul 16, 2021, 04:15 PM Jul 2021

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On this day, July 16, 1945, the Trinity test was carried out. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2021 OP

'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' elleng Jul 2021 #1

Sir Joseph Rotblat was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project spike jones Jul 2021 #2

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1. 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'

Fri Jul 16, 2021, 04:23 PM

Jul 2021

"Don't fly south."

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2. Sir Joseph Rotblat was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project

Fri Jul 16, 2021, 10:14 PM

Jul 2021

when it became clear that Germany would not succeed in making the atomic bomb, and Japan was on the verge of being defeated without it being needed there.

[link:https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1995/rotblat/facts/|