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March 14, 2024

Tidbits – Mar.14, 2024 – Reader Comments: State of the Union and Ceasefire; Oppenheimer and Nuclear Danger Today; Haiti; Take Action – Reject AIPAC; Webinar: Israel After October 7; Standing Together NYC Fundraiser; Book Talk–The Right To Learn; More

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Reader Comments: State of the Union and Ceasefire; Oppenheimer and Nuclear Danger Today; Haiti; Take Action - Reject AIPAC; Webinar: Israel After October 7; Standing Together NYC Fundraiser; Book Talk -- The Right to Learn; Cartoons; more.....

July 11, 2023

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours

Lawrence Wittner Common Dreams

The development of nuclear weapons had far broader consequences than the downfall of one gifted scientist.

August 19, 2021

Children's Teeth, Collected Decades Ago, Can Show the Damage of Nuclear Testing

Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano History News Network

Still present today - strontium-90 from nuclear tests was transmitted from the grass, to cattle, to milk, and finally to human bodies — with special concern as it built up in children’s bones and teeth.

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September 2, 2015

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

Sam Kean The American Scholar

Ernest Lawrence was a leading member of the scientific community that invented the atom bomb. He was also a pioneer in the growth of the military industrial complex. Michael Hiltzik tells this history in his new book. Sam Kean observes in this review that "there is much to admire and much to mourn" here, as we continue to live with the complex legacy of Big Science three quarters of a century after its emergence.

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