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Splinters of Infinity is set in a paradigm-shattering era of physics and science, as a series of rapid-fire discoveries and new ideas completely upend humanity's conception of the universe. Among these revolutions, America's two foremost physicists, Robert Millikan and Arthur Compton, find themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays, one of the era's most fascinating and puzzling discoveries: cosmic rays ...

A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutually assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world's attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now 14, 000 nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though the world survived the Cold War, we need to understand ...

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The secret cold war experiment Project Argus which proposed to bomb incoming Soviet ballistics from targeting radiation into outer space, recently declassified, revealed here.

Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth . . . the feat was regarded by some of its leading participants as the greatest scientific experiment of all time." -Walter Sullivan, The New York Times, March 19, 1959

This tight narrative recounts the long overdue history of the Pioneer interplanetary probe program both as a scientific and technological achievement, and as the story of the exceptional people who made it possible.