Manhattan Project

As a physician and former government regulator who had to make difficult and sometimes momentous decisions, I've often pondered the moral and historical implications of those events, which, despite the horrific loss of life, arguably prevented an

Tomorrow – August 6th – is an important anniversary for Americans. The question is, should we ‘celebrate’ actions that killed approximately 200,000 people, mostly civilians, in August 1945? It’s a complicated question.

Lars and I discussed the recent Oscars, notably the win for "Oppenheimer," the biopic about the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs during the 1940s.  I shared my connections to the Manhattan Project, in

I just watched the highly praised film, “Oppenheimer,” which got me musing about history, my own and America’s. 

Part of my fascination with the Manhattan Project is the science – in particular, the development of new science, the ability to adapt existing science where called for, and the merging of science with engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, and so mu

Americans are no strangers to “times that try men's souls," to borrow a phrase from Thomas Paine.