This is the grave of Leslie Groves. Born in 1896 in Albany, New York, Groves was the son of an Army chaplain. So they moved around a lot. Dad was the chaplain blessing soldiers as they wrested colonies from Spain and the people in Cuba...
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This is the grave of John von Neumann. Born in 1903 in Budapest, Neumann János Lajos grew up in a wealthy secular Jewish family. When the boy was 10, his.
This is the grave of Enrico Fermi. Born in 1901 in Rome to a prominent political family, Fermi showed an unusual aptitude for physics from a very young age and.
This is a powerful long-form piece on how the Manhattan Project and its aftermath, with the utter indifference toward disposing of nuclear waste that partially defined its domestic impact, is still creating horrible health impacts on Americans today, with a focus on a uranium enrichment...