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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,923 posts) Fri Jul 16, 2021, 03:15 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, 03:23 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, 09:14 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.

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