Princeton Science and Global Security Nuclear War Simulation
Sept. 6, 2019
Princeton Science and Global Security (SGS) developed a simulation of a possible nuclear war between the United States and Russia. This simulation, presented in video format, estimates more than 90 million casualties within the first few hours of the war. Due to the nature of nuclear weapons, slow violence fatalities from the…
Manhattan Project notebooks hold a secret - radioactivity
Oct. 7, 2009
In March 2009, papers and notebooks from experiments conducted by Princeton chemists for the Manhattan Project were uncovered. Some thought the notebooks would be great additions to Princeton’s Mudd Library collections. However, many of the documents and notebooks were contaminated with radioactive material. The documents were…