2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated ...

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After 17 years, the 123 Civil Nuclear Agreement between the US and India will finally come into force with the US Department ...

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 established the Atomic ... In a long letter, the General Manager of the AEC explained why. He claimed that the wartime scientific director of the atomic bomb project ...

Einstein himself stated, "I do not consider myself the father of the release of atomic energy." When it comes to the actual blueprint for and building of the atomic bomb, Einstein wasn't tangibly ...