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A high-speed photo of Operation Tumbler-Snapper’s tower shot. Photo via Wikimedia by STEVE WEINTZ In the spring of 1952, the U.S. government tested tactical nuclear weapons at the Nevada Proving Ground as part of Operation Tumbler-Snapper. It was the third nuke test series in 18 months at the Nevada site in an era of breakneck atomic development. At 4:00 in the morning on May 13, one of the Tumbler-Snapper bombs—code name “Fox”—was scheduled to go off. But the moment passed … and no atomic fi
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Enrico Fermi’s battle with cancer was nearing its end in late 1954 when he received a visitor. Fermi, a Nobel laureate in physics, had fled fascism in Europe and become a founder of the nuclear age, helping bring the world’s first reactor and first atom bomb to life. The visitor, Richard L. Garwin, had been Fermi’s student at the University of Chicago, the laureate calling him “the only true genius I have ever met.” Now, he had done something known at the time only by Fermi and a handful of ot
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In the 1930s and 40s, mathematician Alan Turing and other Allied cryptologists devoted monumental efforts to break the German encryption machine, the Enigma, which Nazis used to send secret messages during World War II. Today, however, modern computers and artificial intelligence could break the Enigma code without breaking a sweat, as reported by The Guardian. “Enigma wouldn’t stand up to modern computing and statistics,” Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science at the University of
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Gaming Content Creators & Long-Time Giant Bomb Staff Jeff Bakalar & Jeff Grubb Taking Full Ownership & Operations of the Gaming Media Brand News Announced on Stage During Giant Bomb Panel at PAX East Conference San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb’s programming, which was paused in order to wor
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Gaming Content Creators & Long-Time Giant Bomb Staff Jeff Bakalar & Jeff Grubb Taking Full Ownership & Operations of the Gaming Media Brand News Announced on Stage During Giant Bomb Panel at PAX East Conference San Francisco, CA - May 10, 2025 - Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform, is selling Giant Bomb to long-time Giant Bomb staff and gaming content creators Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Financials of the deal were not disclosed. Giant Bomb’s programming, which was paused in order to wor
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Forward-looking: It's a bummer that, more than two decades later, commercial flights still can't touch the Concorde's blistering speeds. Today's airliners cruise between Mach 0.74 and 0.85 – the sweet spot for fuel efficiency. But that's a far cry from the Concorde's incredible top speed of Mach 2.04. Will we ever experience those 3.5-hour jaunts from London to New York again? Not anytime soon, unfortunately. Still, one Canadian aerospace company is bringing us closer than ever to reliving that
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Aerial Incident of WW2 The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident occurred on 20 December 1943, when, after a successful bomb run on Bremen, 2nd Lt. Charles "Charlie" Brown's B-17F Flying Fortress Ye Olde Pub of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was severely damaged by German fighters. Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler had the opportunity to shoot down the crippled bomber but did not do so, and instead escorted it over and past German-occupied territory so as to protect it. After an exten
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Train traffic from and into Paris’ Gare du Nord, the third-busiest train station in the world, was severely disrupted Friday morning after the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb on the tracks. The bomb was found in the wee hours of the morning in St. Denis, a suburb north of Paris, according to city police. The bomb was about 1.55 miles (2.5 kilometers) from Gare du Nord, which services over 200 million travelers each year, and was revealed by an earth-mover during landscaping work. I
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