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- In 1945, a frail looking scientist drove this road on his way to the Trinity Site. It's a sad and depressing stretch of vast unforgiving desert in New Mexico, but in colonial times, it was the sorry end of many travelers' dreams. He was an ivory tower academic, a multilinguist, a polymath, an undoubted genius, had never managed more ...

Summer, 1945. During the Europe Day victory celebration, on Red Square in Moscow, in front of the Kremlin Palace and the Soviet leaders, the famous Russian army celebrated their victory over Nazi Germany. Just as it's done in the Roman Empire, Soldiers threw flags of the vanquished at the feet of the winner. The man who beat Adolf Hitler, Generalissimo ...