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She participated in a series of video presentations on issues of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for Talkworks, an organisation that focused on dangers associated with nuclear weapons. [37] She also worked with television productions, including two BBC television documentaries on Windscale in 1990 and 2007, and a six-part documentary The ...
The discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932, [1] followed by that of nuclear fission in uranium by the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938, [2] and its theoretical explanation (and naming) by Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch soon after, [3] opened up the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction with uranium. [1]
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-1753-5. Nichols, Kenneth (1987). The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America's Nuclear Policies Were Made. New York: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-06910-X. Smith, Ray (February 9, 2013).
Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 – 7 July 2000), [1] also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs.
The Last Days of World War II; Last Stand of the 300; Lee and Grant; Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live; Legacy of Star Wars; Liberty's Kids; Life After People; The Lincoln Assassination; Live From '69: Moon Landing; Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey; The Long March; The Lost Evidence; The Lost Kennedy Home Movies; Lost Magic Decoded; Lost U ...
Robert Ralph Furman (August 21, 1915 – October 14, 2008) was a civil engineer who during World War II was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project.
Operation Epsilon was the codename of a program in which Allied forces near the end of World War II detained ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear program. The scientists were captured between May 1 and June 30, 1945, [ 1 ] as part of the Allied Alsos Mission , mainly as part of its Operation Big sweep ...
The nuclear family consists of a mother, father, and the children. The two-parent nuclear family has become less prevalent, and pre-American and European family forms have become more common. [2] Beginning in the 1970s in the United States, the structure of the "traditional" nuclear American family began to change.