The Atlantichas just digitized the first - person account of Commander E.E. Kintner ’s experience at the Submarine Thermal Reactor , a tale they first published back in January 1959 . It ’s about one of the first atomic reactor coming to life only a handful of years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and it details how exacting science must at clock time trust on guesswork and luck even while putting life at risk . [ The Atlantic ]
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