A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his ...

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1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, continues in the village of Prokhorovka, between Russian and German forces. The Soviets will win ...

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

The typed letter, which the Jewish physicist corrected and signed by hand, addresses “my participation in the atom bomb project.”The post Bonhmas expects Einstein letter about atom bomb to fetch ...

Leo Szilard drafted a petition urging President Truman to refrain from using it against Japan. He warned that such bombings would be both morally indefensible and strategically short-sighted: “A ...

He was one of several Hungarian Jewish émigrés who worked on the Manhattan Project — others included Leo Szilard and Edward Teller — who came to be known, jokingly, as the Martians, for ...

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

Here’s a curated list combining the most significant books that accurately predicted elements of our future. These works, through fiction and foresight, have highlighted major technological, societal, ...

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Pope Leo XIV Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in the Church's 2,000-year history on May 8, 2025. The 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order chose the papal name ...