Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet with Oppenheimer: The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test...

The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...

Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska

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“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

The  separation of powers – legislative, executive, judicial – may have been first introduced...

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The article was written by a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Shyshkin and was first published in 2007 in Ukrainian newspaper...

Ukrainian who played the most crucial role in creating the first US atomic bomb:...

Atomic Heritage Foundation has the following entry: "George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist.He joined the Manhattan Project in late January 1944, leaving...

World’s first Anti-Reflection Lens Coating invented by Ukrainian A. Smakula in 1935 became German...

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Without the invention of anti-reflection lens coatings, modern lenses couldn’t exist. With nothing added to the surface of a glass lens, about 4% of...

Ukrainian Kistiakowsky, not Oppenheimer, should be credited for the first U.S. atomic bomb successful...

American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, named George Kistiakowsky a key figure in...