The University of Chicago Chronicle1mon
The Doomsday Clock, explained
The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group formed by Manhattan Project scientists at the University of Chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using it ...
National Review9y
Ahmed Mohamed Didn’t Build a Clock — and Other Niggling Problems in the Story of Dallas’s Whizkid-of-the-Week
Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock. He didn’t even build a clock. . . . He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own ...
Retired ATF agent describes seeing dynamite before bomb nearly detonated in downtown Nashville 45 years ago
the alarm clock,” said Cavanaugh. “This bomb was so large. A lot of people would have been killed by that bomb.” Blocks of ...
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Wall clock that survived A-bomb keeps on ticking 77 years later
HIROSHIMA--Passed down from his grandfather, a U.S.-made wooden clock that hangs on a living room wall at Eiji Koizumi’s home here has stood the test of time and an atomic bomb blast. The ...