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Once it became clear that in theory a single bomb with enormous destructive potential was possible, it’s hard to understate the existential dread, fear, and outright panic of U.S. and British emigre physicists – many of them Jewish refugees who had fled Germany and occupied Europe. In the...
In 1948 Polaroid pivoted. They launched what would become synonymous with an “Instant Camera.” In its first instant camera — theModel 95– the film contained all the necessary chemicals to “instantly” develop a photo. The instant film was made of two parts – a negative sheet that lined...
In 2016, brainstorming withPete Newellof BMNT andJoe Felterat Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. As we thought about how we could get ...
In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. military to rearm and mobilize. Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $...
In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. military to rearm and mobilize. Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $...