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Britain Built America's Bomb—Then America Locked Them Out

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The Tube Alloys Secret: How Britain Cracked Uranium Enrichment Before America How wartime allies who cracked uranium enrichment were betrayed by Cold War politics, Soviet spies, and congressional power plays BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Britain's Tube Alloys project pioneered uranium enrichment technologies that enabled the Manhattan Project's success. Despite wartime promises of continued cooperation, the 1946 McMahon Act abruptly severed the partnership, leaving Britain and France isolated. The Klaus Fuchs espionage case—involving a physicist American authorities knew posed security risks but chose to retain—vindicated security concerns while fueling McCarthy-era paranoia. Britain spent two percent of GDP rebuilding capabilities it had freely shared, suffering the Windscale fire disaster in 1957. France's independent program cost lives in Saharan test fallout and accidents. Britain tested its first bomb in 1952; France in 1960. Partial cooperation resumed only in 1958, ...
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Verifying Facts in Patient Care Documents Generated by Large Language Models Using Electronic Health Records | NEJM AI

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Stanford Launches VeriFact-BHC Benchmark To Audit LLM-Generated Medical Documentation Verifying Facts in Patient Care Documents Generated by Large Language Models Using Electronic Health Records | NEJM AI AI Verifying AI: The Emerging Science of Automated Fact-Checking for Medical Documentation BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Multiple research teams are developing AI systems that use large language models to verify AI-generated clinical documentation, achieving accuracy rates that match or exceed human clinicians. These "LLM-as-a-Judge" systems employ retrieval-augmented generation, multi-model architectures, and reasoning chains to cross-reference new documents against existing patient records, addressing the critical challenge of AI hallucinations in healthcare while revealing both promising capabilities and significant limitations. The Verification Paradox: Using AI to Check AI The healthcare industry faces a peculiar technological conundrum: artificial intelligence can ...
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When the Sea Broke Ships Like Eggshells: USCG said "you have to go out, but you don't have to come back"

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The Finest Hours (2016) Featurette - Behind the Scenes - YouTube The Pendleton Rescue and Hollywood's Near-Miss TL;DR On February 18, 1952, four young Coast Guardsmen in a 36-foot wooden boat rescued 32 men from a broken oil tanker during a catastrophic nor'easter off Cape Cod—the greatest small-boat rescue in Coast Guard history. Disney's 2016 film "The Finest Hours" told this remarkable story but became a box office disaster, grossing only $52 million against a $70-80 million budget. The film's failure and the rescue itself both illuminate a darker story: how America's wartime shipbuilding program produced vessels so structurally flawed they were nicknamed "Kaiser's coffins." The night of February 18, 1952, brought one of the most ferocious winter storms ever to hammer New England's coast. In the howling darkness off Cape Cod, with winds screaming at 70 knots and waves towering to 60 feet, two 500-foot oil tankers did something that...
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