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Screenshot of newyorker.com: Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor

Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor (newyorker.com)

8 points by conorcleary 27 days ago | 1 comments

New Yorker essay by Alex Wellerstein marking the 75th anniversary of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, which achieved criticality in 1942.

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Screenshot of spectrum.ieee.org: Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (spectrum.ieee.org)

400 points by pseudolus 5 months ago | 118 comments

IEEE Spectrum feature presenting forgotten, restored photographs of the 1945 Trinity atomic bomb test and what they show about the project's scale.

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Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor(newyorker.com)

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored(spectrum.ieee.org)

Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor (newyorker.com)

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (spectrum.ieee.org)