• Oppenheimer in Perspective: Building the Bomb in the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union (1939 – 1949)

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    In  1938, news that Hitler's Germany was seeking to manufacture an atomic bomb shocked the allies and initiaited an atomic arms race that would decide the war. The United States began a concentrated effort to catch up, and by 1945, both the Soviet Union and America were determined to obtain captured German Scientists in thier […]

  • Oppenheimer in Perspective: Building the Bomb in the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union (1939 – 1949)

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    In of the summer of 1939, the physics of a fission nuclear bomb was understood among scientists in several countries, including Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Building a bomb during wartime was something else. How did this play out?ย  About Seymour Goodman Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman is Regents Professor at the […]

  • Challenge From Northeast Asia: it isn’t just China

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    North Koreaโ€™s successful intercontinental missile and nuclear tests, and Kimโ€™s current efforts to attach a nuclear device to his ICBMs has changed the dynamic in Northeast Asia. An independent DPRK with major arms manufacturing can supply Putin with weapons to fight Ukraine, manipulate both Russia and China, and threaten Americaโ€™s heartland. Can it be countered, […]

  • Russia’s Ukraine Invasion: Implications for the Arctic

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    Russia, with 1/5th of its land mass north of the Arctic Circle, and two million Russians of a four million population inhabiting the region, has forced its Arctic neighbors to re-assess an angry Russia, stung by its Ukrainian experience. Does this experience convince Russia not to engage in any changes in its current Arctic policy […]