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Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project” – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

January 8, 2022

https://thebulletin.org/2019/07/trinity-the-most-significant-hazard-of-the-entire-manhattan-project/

Selection of good quotes from The Man from the Future

January 8, 2022

At the link below are a selection of good quotes from
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Hardcover by Ananyo Bhattacharya (Author)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FIM00rGx28S0Z6cQiNhwAm8otpdphRttdabA03hPWgY/edit

(public doc: Selected-Good-Quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)

Further quotes I liked are at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noMiAy2maVVyPh94rEzEZbCwR6TPjZ2T223Hm5ylDZ0/edit

(a private doc: Full-List-of-Good-quotes-from-Man-from-the-Future–jvn0mg)

Gray goo – Wikipedia

January 8, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

Self-replicating spacecraft – Wikipedia

January 7, 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

von neumann probes

Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958 – YouTube

January 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HfFvjSAHc

Penrose Wood replicator

JP 3-72, Nuclear Operations, 11 June 2019

January 7, 2022

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/dod/jp3_72.pdf

‘Dr. Strangelove’ Is Basically a Documentary | WIRED

January 7, 2022

https://www.wired.com/2018/03/geeks-guide-doctor-strangelove/#:~:text=Strangelove%20was%20inspired%20by%20the,t%20the%20way%20it%20worked.%E2%80%9D

Fat Man | The New Yorker

January 7, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man
Kahn, the bomb & Rand

RepRap – RepRap

January 7, 2022

https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

Why Cloth Masks Might Not Be Enough as Omicron Spreads – WSJ

January 7, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cloth-face-mask-omicron-11640984082?mod=e2tw