Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, along with other scientists, issued the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955, which appealed directly to global public opinion and aimed to get powerful governments to agree to allow their citizens to live without fear of war.
The development of dangerous technologies across a broad front of technology could lead to the realization that they can't be used due to the high costs involved, similar to the development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, where physicists quickly realized the costs of war.
The innovation boom between 1935 and 1975 was a period where funding was plentiful and anything seemed possible. Many of the inventions from this time period continue to be the basis for today's advancements, such as the iPhone.
J. Robert Oppenheimer's legacy as the architect of the nuclear age is tragic, as some of his work has led to potentially the destruction of the human species. He believed that theory should be closely related to experiments and his new information had to do with really understanding nuclear physics.
The ADS-CFT Holographic Principle proposes that the amount of information that can be stored in a black hole depends only on the surface area of the black hole, and has led scientists to experimentally test the hypothesis of quantum entanglement in the Canary Islands.
The discussion touches on the publishing of landmark papers, such as the Poincarek paper that was published on archive and not on a journal. The platform has a lot of historical landmark papers available for annotation.