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Atomic Energy Commission
A final interview with the most controversial father of the atomic age, Edward Teller
U-Boom on the Colorado Plateau
Gold is where you find it, goes the old prospectors’ saw. Read more >>
Coming on Line
From the beginning it was clear—in this case the beginning was December 2, 1942, the day the first man-made nuclear reactor was nudged to criticality in a squash court beneath the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field and incidentally the first day of wartime g Read more >>