Throwback Thursday | John Wheeler's H-Bomb Blues | Physics Today

“In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the eminent physicist lost a classified document, about the hydrogen bomb, on an overnight train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.”

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Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, en:Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, July 8-13, 1963 - physicists (including some Nobel Prize winner), with original annotations by Friedrich Hund.Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bohr,Niels_Comme…

Commemoration Meeting for Niels Bohr, en:Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, July 8-13, 1963 - physicists (including some Nobel Prize winner), with original annotations by Friedrich Hund.

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