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New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Alamos, Nagasaki, Trinity Site, New Mexico, Edward Teller, Plutonium, Physics, Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic Bomb, H-Bomb, Ground Zero, Trinitite, WWII Veterans, Japan, Hydrogen Bomb, Manhattan Project, Travel News
James M. Clash

Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away

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ReThink Review: Countdown to Zero -- How I Learned to Start Worrying

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Oppenheimer, Gulf War, Lawrence Bender, Highly Enriched Uranium, Lucy Walker, Terrorism, Gulf War Syndrome, Hiroshima, Rethink Reviews, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Cold War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Rogue States, Countdown to Zero, Terrorism. Countdown to Zero Movie, Nuclear Bomb, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

America's willingness to use nuclear weapons poses one of the globe's biggest threats. As Countdown to Zero illustrates, it's time we take that threat off the table.

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ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Lucy Walker, Ronald Reagan, Robert McNamara, Rethink Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear, Jonathan Kim, Nuclear Weapons, Rethink Interview, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence Bender, Countdown to Zero, Radiohead, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Wmd, Centrifuge, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Highly Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Power, Missile, Food Inc., Plutonium, Uranium, Mikhail Gorbachev, Albert Einstein, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

Why are nuclear weapons so far off our collective radars when they retain the potential to extinguish millions of lives -- if not all life on the planet -- in mere minutes?

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