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The Women Who Built the Bomb

Today, when we think of nuclear power, we might think of energy, or an arms race, or the incredibly tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster – which occurred two years ago today. But seventy years ago – before there was a Fukishima, or an Indian Point, or a Cold War – there was the notion that a […]

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Newly Released Files Reveal Controversy Over Chaplin’s Knighthood

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Judging the Rosenbergs

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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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German musings on American capitalism

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Just weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about the rise and fall New York. The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at how Brecht’s work hits the mark nearly 80 years later.

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