Mar 29, 2018 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Of course, while the bomb was being designed, they had to figure out how they were going to deliver it. And WHO was going to deliver it. Way back in March 1944, the US Army Air Force, with William Sterling “Deak” Parsons and his team at Los Alamos, developed two...
Mar 23, 2018 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* President Roosevelt authorized the Manhattan Project to go full steam 26 days after Fermi’s success, on 28 December 1942* The U.S. would end up spending $2 billion on it. (about $22 billion in 2018 dollars)* Do you know why it cost so much?* 130,000 people* When I...
Mar 18, 2018 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Benn Steil is an American economist, author of a great new book on “The Marshall Plan”, and senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mar 2, 2018 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* Fission involved breaking apart the nuclei of heavy elements like uranium or plutonium.* Fusion involves forcing the nuclei of lighter elements, like hydrogen or deuterium, together.* And deuterium, which is basically heavy hydrogen, is far easier to get your hands...
Feb 24, 2018 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* President Roosevelt responded to Einstein’s letter by setting up the Advisory Committee on Uranium under Lyman J. Briggs, director of the National Bureau of Standards.* Side note: his daughter Isabel would eventually marry Clarence Myers and go on to generate the...
Feb 19, 2018 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* In 1913, H. G. Wells wrote a book called The World Set Free* The novel begins: “The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. . . . Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back...
