For athletes, sports is not only a form of entertainment. Many might enjoy playing basketball or tennis at home due to pandemic restrictions but this is not the case for professional athletes. Sports activities become half of their life. Ask them and they won’t deny it. Right now, many athletes are struggling to maintain their…
A ship without an anchor risks drifting into stormy waters. The same is true of governments that borrow and spend. More than six months into the global pandemic, it’s time for the Trudeau government to figure out what safeguards to put in place to ensure our temporary plunge into record deficits doesn’t become a permanent…
Until his death in 1970, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves never had a single regret about the lives that were lost as a result of the Manhattan Project
Right up until practically the last minute, only an elite few knew about the building, testing and ultimate plans to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the "gadget" was about to be tested, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves – who ran the project from its inception – tried to explain it as the…
The majority of people who worked on the Manhattan Project were only told what they needed to know to do their jobs
While Oak Ridge, Tenn., would make U-235, the fuel for the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves looked for a site in the West that was far from population centres. It also needed a generous supply of electricity to run the bomb factories and water to cool the reactors. Hanford, Wash., downriver from…
The beginnings of the Manhattan Project can be traced to research into uranium-238 conducted at the University of California, Berkeley
The beginnings of the Manhattan Project can be traced to early science and technology research into uranium-238 conducted at the University of California, Berkeley. U-238 is the most common radioactive element, making up about 99 per cent of the Earth's supply of uranium. Uranium-238 does not sustain a fission chain reaction, however, and must be…
Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves and the Manhattan Project
On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear device was tested at a remote location in New Mexico, the Alamogordo Test Range, the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death). The word "bomb" was never used. Instead, it was referred to as the "gadget" or the "thing." The Manhattan Project was named after the Manhattan Engineer…
Tickers: XCNQ:AGRO, XOTC:AGGHF, PINX:AGGHFTags: None Vancouver BC - TheNewswire - March 13, 2020 - Agrios Global Holdings Ltd. (CSE:AGRO) (CNSX:AGRO.CN) (OTC:AGGHF) (FSE: OSA - WKN-A2N62K) ("Agrios" or the "Company") announces that pursuant to the 8% unsecured convertible debentures in the principal amount of $1,010,000 (the "June 2019 Debentures") previously issued on June 14, 2019, and…
Tickers: XTSX:HPY, PINX:HPYCF, XOTC:HPYCFTags: #Mining Vancouver, British Columbia - TheNewswire - March 13, 2019 - Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:HPY) (the "Company"), is providing the following update. The Company wishes to announce that Paul Berndt, Director, has resigned from the board. Paul has shared his experience in the tungsten market and mineral processing regarding our…
Tickers: Tags: #Healthcare Vancouver, British Columbia - TheNewswire - March 13, 2020 - Cava Healthcare Inc. ("Cava" or the "Company") announces the issuance of 138,250 common shares in the capital of the Company (each, a "Common Share") to certain directors and officers of the Company. Pursuant to a consulting agreement dated October 8, 2019 (the…