Going to see #Oppenheimer tonight w/ my boys but while reading some atomic history learned of this "hidden figure" in physics, Lise Meitner.

Not only did she suggest the first nuclear fission experiment but when her lab professor had no clue why it worked, she devised a theory ... that would become The Bomb ... and nuclear power.

(Yeah, of course, her professor won the Nobel Prizew/out crediting Meitner but that's just boys being boys, right?)

#Physics #AtomicHistory

https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/biographies/meitner.html

Today's post of Dad's photos is going to be a somber one. These are of the #Hiroshima Peace Park. The Memorial Cenotaph, and the #Genbaku Dome circa 1967

#IronJawPhotos
#photography
#HistoricalPhotography
#AtomicHistory
#AbolishNukes
#NoNukes
#Japan

I just finished reading “Atomic Days: Th Untold Stiry of the Most Toxic Place in America” by Joshua Frank (2022): a biography of the Hanford Site in Washington State, USA. The site was used to produce plutonium during WW2 and the Cold War and stored, leaked, and intentionally released an unimaginable amount of radioactive waste. Frank also covers Indigenous resistance movements (figuring nuclear power and associated activities like mining and waste disposal as a vehicle for neo-colonialism), the plight of whistleblowers, and future risks to the site. Harrowing stuff!

#AmReading #NuclearPower #AtomicHistory #AmericanHistory