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October 3, 2005

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John Adams and Peter Sellars create an atomic opera.

John Adams turned the creation of the atomic bomb into opera — music for the moment physics became moral philosophy

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How Neil Armstrong Brought the Space Program Down to Earth

Thomas Mallon reviews “First Man,” a biography of Neil Armstrong, who, as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, became the first man to set foot on the moon.

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