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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project
One of the Manhattan Project sites, Los Alamos, required a whole new city to be built for scientist…
Jenny McGrath
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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.
The real Albert Einstein wouldn't have helped J. Robert Oppenheimer with top-secret calculations ab…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny McGrath
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Despite sparking New Mexico's biggest-ever fire, experts say 'planned burns' are still best way to curb wildfires
Forest managers intentionally set small fires, known as "planned burns," to clear dead leaves and t…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Alamo Drafthouse reveals its reopening plan will include mandatory masks and some temperature checks for guests
The popular chain will reopen two theaters in July as "learning labs." Food orders will be made in …
Jason Guerrasio
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Alamo Drafthouse CEO details his strategy for the Manhattan and Los Angeles movie theaters he's opening this year
The same goes for the beverage director and chef at the theaters. Outside of a few core menu items,…
Jason Guerrasio
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Alamo Drafthouse says its first Los Angeles location will open in July and gives more details about its upcoming subscription plan
The Los Angeles theater will also be the latest in the chain to offer moviegoers the chance to take…
Jason Guerrasio
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Alamo Drafthouse's movie-ticket subscription plan will launch in all its theaters by the end of the year
League said Alamo Season Pass will be an unlimited plan for $20 a month in most areas of the countr…
Jason Guerrasio
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The women behind the Manhattan Project that Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' completely ignored
Women serving in key roles like explosion techs, librarians, and hematologists were essential to th…
Katie Hawkinson ,Jenny McGrath
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers
The Manhattan Project displaced some New Mexicans, employed others, and probably irradiated thousan…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny McGrath
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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How bricks, a screwdriver, and a 'demon core' of radioactive material killed 2 Manhattan Project scientists
WWII-era experiments on a hunk of plutonium known as the "demon core" left two Manhattan Project ph…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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9 years before 'Oppenheimer,' Cillian Murphy could have played the father of the atomic bomb in another project
For the short-lived TV series "Manhattan," Murphy was considered for the Oppenheimer role, as well …
Jason Guerrasio
4 mins read
How atomic bombs work and why Manhattan Project scientists designed two types of bombs during WWII
Atomic bombs work via nuclear fission. When enough radioactive material undergoes fission, it trigg…
Adam Barnes
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Oppenheimer went into a deep depression after reading about the effects of the atomic bomb on Japan and even publicly spoke out against using the bomb
At a meeting with President Harry Truman in 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer told the commander-in-chief…
Rebecca Cohen
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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of f…
Jenny McGrath
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J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'Q clearance' is on the line in 'Oppenheimer' — here's what that means
Much of "Oppenheimer" is focused on a 1954 security hearing. After Oppenheimer is accused of being …
Gabbi Shaw
6 mins read
How hydrogen bombs work and why they were created after WWII despite being more powerful than atomic bombs
Hydrogen bombs, considered nuclear weapons, work using a combination of nuclear fission and fusion.…
Adam Barnes
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Christopher Nolan reacts to fans who assumed he detonated an atomic bomb on the set of 'Oppenheimer'
The director opened up about the film, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and cent…
Olivia Singh
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'Oppenheimer' leaves out the most terrifying, deadly risk of nuclear weapons because nobody knew about it until the 1980s
J. Robert Oppenheimer's nightmarish visions in the film pale in comparison to the nuclear winter an…