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Lise Meitner Helped Discover Nuclear Fission—and Was Then Forgotten via Daily Beast

Posted on 2020/02/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Lise Meitner’s co-discovery of nuclear fission in the 1940s led to nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. But the scientific establishment ignored her ground-breaking work. Janice Kaplan When Lise Meitner was invited to Los Alamos in the early 1940s to work … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Abolition: A Model for International Youth Activism via Buzzflash

Posted on 2018/01/24 by nfield

[…] International treaties to reduce nuclear arsenals have been in existence for decades, so why did the Nobel Prize Committee choose to honor ICAN? The organization’s efforts are unique because the campaign reframes nuclear disarmament as a humanitarian issue. Seeing … Continue reading →

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – Nobel Lecture via Nobelprize.org

Posted on 2017/12/10 by nfield

(Setsuko Thurlow) I speak as a member of the family of hibakusha – those of us who, by some miraculous chance, survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more than seven decades, we have worked for the total … Continue reading →

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) – Nobel Lecture via Nobelprize.org

Posted on 2017/12/10 by nfield

[Beatrice Fihn:] […] At dozens of locations around the world – in missile silos buried in our earth, on submarines navigating through our oceans, and aboard planes flying high in our sky – lie 15,000 objects of humankind’s destruction. Perhaps … Continue reading →

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Beatrice Fihn Thinks We Can Abolish Nuclear Arms via The New York Times

Posted on 2017/11/02 by nfield

Congratulations on your Nobel Peace Prize! How did you become interested in nuclear disarmament? I’ve always been interested in international issues. But as with many people who grew up after the Cold War, nuclear weapons didn’t feel relevant. […] How so? Nuclear … Continue reading →

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Svetlana Alexievich Wins Nobel Prize in Literature via The New York Times

Posted on 2015/10/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and prose writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” the Swedish Academy announced. Ms. Alexievich, 67, is the 14th woman … Continue reading →

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