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Lise Meitner: The Pacifist Whose Breakthrough Led to the Atomic Bomb

By Kevin Martin

Mar 13, 2020

Lise Meitner played an instrumental role in the research that led to nuclear fission and, soon after, to the creation of the atomic bomb. But she had deep misgivings about her…

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Nuclear Weapons: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Padraic Grumplestein

Feb 07, 2019

During the Cold War, accidents and other incidents involving nuclear weapons were more common than many people know, but the bombs didn’t go off. How close have we come to…

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Three Mile Island: America’s Nuclear Wake-up Call

By MagellanTV

Mar 20, 2025

One of Three Mile Island’s nuclear reactors partially melted down in 1979. As the worst disaster ever in an American nuclear power plant, it spurred the “No Nukes” movement as…

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