One of the most important projects of the 20th century was also one of the most daring and destructive, and it reshaped the ...

Tick tock—the Doomsday Clock is now closer to midnight that it has ever been before. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and Manhattan Project scientists, has moved ...

Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public ...

Due to his political views, he was seen as a potential security risk and barred from working on the Manhattan Project. Einstein regretted signing the Szilard letter and campaigned against nuclear ...

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