Also inside: a mummification workshop, taro, World Population Day
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT/PIX INC./TIME & LIFE PICTURES | | He was a brilliant physicist—and his driving, inquisitive but collaborative style united scientists and tens of thousands of workers in America’s atomic drive to defeat the Nazis.
But could J. Robert Oppenheimer (above) keep World War II’s biggest secret from Moscow?
Pragmatism overcame suspicion during wartime, and the bomb from Oppenheimer’s team ended the war—but with a massive cost of lives in two Japanese cities that haunted many of the scientists for the rest of their lives. Suspicion, however, arose after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY CORBIS HISTORICAL, GETTY IMAGES | | Bomb squad: Technicians work at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. The U.S. military tapped Oppenheimer to establish the lab in 1942. Codenamed "Project Y," this remote facility brought together the brightest minds in theoretical physics all with one aim: to create an atomic bomb. Read more.
Related: The sensitive, flawed father of the atomic bomb | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY AKOS STILLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHE COAT, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO | | Taro bubble tea, anyone? The root vegetable, taro (pictured above), is one of the oldest cultivated food plants of humankind, Nat Geo reports. And its history is sewn with folklore, flavor, and depth around the globe. | | | |
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| ILLUSTRATION BY OWEN FREEMAN | | What’s inside a mummification workshop? The mummification process took 70 days—and was a robust cultural and economic trade. Embalming vessels. Priests in god of funerary rites masks (like the one illustrated above). Layers of tombs. And in the underground maze of a mortuary, the deeper a body was buried, the more important that person was in society. See for yourself.
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Today’s soundtrack: We’re a Winner, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions. Behind the song.
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