Barry Commoner, The First Guy I Ever Voted For, Dead at 95
I have been remiss in not writing this sooner. . . . Dr. Barry Commoner, scientist, activist, educator and one of the founders of the modern environmental movement, died on September 30 at his home in...
View ArticleBook Salon – Joseph Mangano, Author of Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment
[Note: On Saturday afternoon, I hosted FDL Book Salon, featuring a live Q&A with Joseph Mangano, author of Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment. This is a repost of that discussion.] In...
View ArticleThe Brief Wondrous Life (and Long Dangerous Half-Life) of Strontium-90
At roughly 5:30 in the morning on July 16, 1945, an implosion-design plutonium device, codenamed “the gadget,” exploded over the Jornada del Muerto desert in south-central New Mexico with a force...
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