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How much did J. Robert Oppenheimer get paid while overseeing the Manhattan Project?
I am curious to determine how much J. Robert Oppenheimer got paid in today's dollars when he was the head of Los Alamos National Laboratory?
Do we have any HR or accounting documents of the Los Alamos ...
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What happened to all the nuclear material being smuggled after the fall of the USSR?
I'm currently on my lunch break and deep in the Wikipedia hole which brought me to this article that details thwarted nuclear smuggling incidents in 1993/6. Many of the incidents involve elements that ...
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Was there a constant 'fear of the bomb' in the Soviet Union and America during the Cold War?
Was there a constant 'fear of the bomb' in the Soviet Union and America during the Cold War?
Or were there times where there wasn't such a fear? Possibly during the Nixon-Brezhnev détente, or ...
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What evidence is there to suggest that 'fear of the bomb' is culturally specific? [closed]
In the Western World, we have woven a cultural motif for our feelings about nuclear weapons. Even Scientific American would go so far as to say, "We learned to fear the bomb".
Now some of this is ...
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