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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.

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

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