Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
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Forty-Three Seconds to Hiroshima
Introduction The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, is frequently described as the “simple” atomic bomb. Nearly every history of the Manhattan Project explains that Little Boy…
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Operation Crossroads, Part VII
Crossroads Baker, showing the white surface “crack” under the ships, and the top of the hollow spray column.
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From Little Boy to Peacekeeper
Introduction On July 1, 1946, less than a year after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a B-29 bomber named Dave’s Dream approached Bikini Atoll carrying a plutonium implosion…
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The Long Road Out of Iran
Leaving Iran I was born in Tehran in 1982, in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. My mother, Zohreh, and my father, Abbas, as well as one (perhaps…