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Oppenheimer, the film, and the Manhattan Project
By Karl Grossman Oppenheimer, the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, is a great film, extraordinary, as most movie reviews are accurately saying, and so, so important. Causing the formation of the Manhattan Project was a letter from Long Island, New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was signed by Albert…TRITIUM
By Karl Grossman On Long Island, New York, where I live, in the late 1990s the two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory were shut down because they had been leaking tritium into the water table below, part of the island’s aquifer system on which more than 3 million people depend on as their sole…Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle
By Karl Grossman With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday, the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, and, so importantly, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the time for putting the nuclear genie…The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story
By Karl Grossman “The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology. It begins with the words in 1961 of U.S.…An Extraordinary Educational Institution
By Karl Grossman It’s an extraordinary educational institution: Empire State University. Originally called Empire State College, it was elevated to being Empire State University in March.