put a hold on the bill. Giving a speech in which he called it a nuclear bunker-buster bomb aimed at the Internet, he announced he would not allow it to pass without changes. And as you may know, a single senator can’t actually stop a bill by themselves, but they can delay it. B...
On July 16, 1945, he was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim Committee that advised President Harry S. Truman to use atomic bombs on...
As the consensus GOAT in the estimation of diplomatic historians, he brought to maturity a pragmatic tradition of statecraft originated by a prior generation of New Englanders and various slaveholding Virginians with names like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. That tradition emphasized opportunistically...
J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of Los Alamos nuclear laboratory that developed the first nuclear bomb, likened the state of “nuclear deterrence” between the United States and the USSR to “two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other,” but only by risking their own lives....
For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb's shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR“I Feel I Have Blood on My Hands”If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nationspreparing for war, then the time will come when mankindwill curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima.ROBERT OPPENHEI...
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Why: "Hackers use hard-coded usernames and passwords to load code into the memory on IoT devices. Simply shutting down and rebooting the device is the easiest way to get rid of the infection, but when you turn the devices on again, you may find they are soon reinfected with Mirai. The...
And it was like when the nuclear bomb came and people got really scared and said that was something that happened. Jason Scott Montoya (33:10)Yeah. So when you're 10, you move back to Atlanta. You don't have a cell phone. I guess, but you go to Westminster High School, you're ...
Wigner was afraid that the German nuclear weapon project would develop an atomic bomb first. During the Manhattan Project, he led a team whose task was to design nuclear reactors to convert uranium into weapons grade plutonium. At the time, reactors existed only on ...