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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 Coats Mission was a special British army unit established in England in 1940 for the purpose of evacuating King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and their immediate family in the event of a German invasion of Britain during the Second World War. [1] It was led by Major James Coats, MC, Coldstream Guards, later Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Coats, Bt.
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 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).
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.
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.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
An American nuclear family composed of the mother, father, and their children, c. 1955. A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family or conjugal family) is a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.