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65 years ago today

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The Nuclear Era begins....

The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was generated at Alonzo Stagg Field on the campus of the University of Chicago. My father was present at the birth.

Despite global warming, the weather on campus is equally snowy today.

Moore's offering is on the very spot where fission occurred.

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If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)
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