In the 1950s, nuclear was deemed the energy of the future. Unfortunately, the world's ardor for replacing fossil fuels with clean atomic energy hit a brick wall in the 1970s. It is only recently, ...
Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV Stream now with the PBS app. In the 1950s and '60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout ...
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By the mid 1950s, atomic clocks with caesium atoms that were accurate enough to be used as time standards had been built. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of ...