Manhattan Project

A recent visit the site of the first atomic bomb explosion offered desert vistas, (mildly) radioactive pebbles and troubling reflections.

Historian Alex Wellerstein: "You could get rid of all the secrecy tomorrow and the world would not measurably become more dangerous."

Every purchase evokes his design of the rectangular Universal Product Code. But although it became ubiquitous, he received no royalties.

The method involves thousands of computer simulations of a company's stock price. It was developed to understand how nuclear explosions work.

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