Sharing Land in the Nuclear Age or How to Coexist with the Atom in New Mexico by Lucie Genay

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Notorious: Hitchcock’s good neighbor film by Arlindo Castro

“…If they happened to go to Radio City Music Hall, Notorious would reassure them that the U.S. was doing well in preventing obstinate Nazis from making an atomic bomb, though at that moment of the nuclear espionage war, former Manhattan Project insider Klaus Fuchs had actually passed on to a Soviet contact in London classified information about the Manhattan Project and American atomic plans.2 Indeed, in that transitional period between World War II and the Cold War, the major political villains were still Nazis, not Communists, as exemplified by other 1946 films like Orson Welles’ The Stranger, Charles Vidor’s Gilda, and Edward Dmytryk’s Cornered. …”
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The Chicago Piles unearthed by Andrea Zoia, Albin Gagnepain, Davide Mancusi

“…Here, we fill this gap by building fully detailed three-dimensional digital twins of CP-1 and CP-2 using TRIPOLI-4, the Monte Carlo particle transport code developed at CEA, based on the aggregation of information retrieved from published and unpublished documents of the Manhattan Project. Simulation results faithfully reproduce the available experimental measurements and shed light on the early development of fuel and moderator materials.…”
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