When Germany surrendered in May 1945, the Manhattan Project had not yet developed a working weapon. Many scientists lobbied for their research to be turned to peaceful purposes. But US President Harry Truman saw the advantage of possessing the bomb ahead of the Soviet Union, and ordered the ...
Basically, the Finnish national based survey of nuclear non-proliferation policy attempted to investigate issues like the kind of research concerning Nuclear Technology in general, Nuclear weapons, and Nuclear weapon policies of super powers in Finland during the Cold War era. (author)...
Atomic – Nuclear Weapons & Energy History & Documents Archive 1939 – 2011 USB Drive89,575 pages of documents related to the development and
Antinuclear movement, social movement opposed to the production of nuclear weapons and the generation of electricity by nuclear power plants. The goals and ideologies of the antinuclear movement range from an emphasis on peace and environmentalism to int
Biological weapon, any of a number of disease-producing agents—such as bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, fungi, toxins, or other biological agents—that may be utilized as weapons against humans, animals, or plants. The direct use of infectious agents and
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists—many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe—became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted inNazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomi...
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The legendary physicist urged the U.S. to build the devastating weapon during World War II—and was haunted by the consequences. “I did not see any other way out.”
On December 28, 1942, PresidentFranklin D. Rooseveltauthorized the formation of theManhattan Projectto bring together various scientists and military officials working on nuclear research. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic bomb duringWorld...
By 1878, Lockyer seemed to be satisfied that, through Nature, awareness of the right questions was on the rise as a result of the growing space given to such matters by the daily press: “Questions concerning scientific discovery, research and teaching, have now a much more direct interest ...