This video argues that the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bombs and nuclear reactors during World War II was a fluke, not representative of what can be accomplished with Big Science programs. There have been many failed New Manhattan Projects since World War II.
Minor Correction: Trinity, the first atomic bomb test, took place on July 16, 1945 — not in May of 1945 as stated in the audio.
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About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).