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May 31, 2023

Did you know a Soviet physicist is behind all of America’s stealth technology?

Pyotr Ufimtsev didn’t know it, but his work would put him at the forefront of a new American industry: stealth technology and engineering.

BYLogan Nye

May 31, 2023

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Here’s how a physicist lit his cigarette with a nuclear-bomb explosion

There are all kinds of strange ways to light up a cigarette, from blowtorches to magnifying glasses. But few people on Earth have ever used as bizarre or overkill a method as devised by a Cold War physicist: the explosion of a nuclear bomb. On…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Why Albert Einstein begged the US to build an atomic bomb

On Aug. 2, 1939, one month before the outbreak of World War II, Albert Einstein, the famous German-born physicist, signed a two-page letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt that would help bring the US into the nuclear arms race and change the …

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020