The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.
MANY will know that our Earth’s 4.5-billion-year-old existence has been split up into geological epochs, each spanning millions of years. In an article in ‘Nature’, in 2002, by a Nobel chemistry prize winner, Paul Crutzen, coined the term for a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.
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