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The NYT published an obituary on Manhattan Project veteran Arnold Kramish today, July 16, 2010. Kramish passed away on June 15 in Washington at the age of eighty-seven. More on his life may be read here.
Cold War Films Hit Theaters July 23
The New York Times ran an article on Sunday, July 11, on a trifecta of Cold War films scheduled for release on July 23. They are Farewell, an "espionage drama" set in the end of the Cold War, Salt, which stars Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of spying for the Soviet Union, and Countdown to Zero, a documentary on the nuclear peril we face today.
After the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, film studios moved away from making movies about the Cold War and shifted their focus to the Balkans. Today, Hollywood's interest in the Cold War has been rekindled, and the recent arrest of 11 people accused of being Russian spies will make the release of these films particularly timely.
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Atomic Story of the Week
It was very exciting times. And of course when the bomb was dropped in August ‘45, the town went wild. It was absolutely crazy. As was generally reported in the papers, very few of the people here knew that we were working on a bomb, and just about no one knew what the status was, as relatively young engineers... it was not possible for us to know how much material was needed for a weapon or anything else. We weren’t sophisticated physicists like Oppenheimer and the rest of them out in Los Alamos.
BOB KUPP, OAK RIDGE
Did You Know?
"During the years of the Manhattan Project, I was told only one, single secret by my husband. That there were no metallurgists at the Metallurgical Laboratory [Met Lab]." (Laura Fermi, wife of Enrico Fermi)
