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Direct linkReed, B. Cameron – Physics Teacher, 2006
In his "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," Richard Rhodes remarks of the July 16, 1945, Trinity atomic bomb test in New Mexico that "had astronomers been watching they could have seen it reflected from the moon, literal moonshine," an allusion to Ernest Rutherford's famous dismissal of the prospect of atomic energy. Investigating…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Weapons, Nuclear Physics, Astronomy
