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2016
September 2016
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If he had lived to make the decision, would Roosevelt have dropped the atomic bomb?
February 2016
26
Visions
What does Frayn's famous play get wrong, and what does it get right?
2015
November 2015
13
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At what point did the Manhattan Project scientists and administrators realize they weren't in a race with Nazi Germany after all?
January 2015
 7
Meditations
Was a "Nazi nuclear bunker" recently discovered? Almost certainly not — but that hasn't stopped the story from being passed around.
2013
October 2013
11
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Who told Werner Heisenberg that an atomic bomb might be dropped on Dresden? Plus: another curious wartime leak.
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If the first atomic bomb had been ready in 1944, would it have been used against the Nazis? Surprisingly, Roosevelt may have been interested in doing it.
September 2013
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Are there any indications that the Germans penetrated into the secrecy surrounding the American atomic bomb project during World War II? Not many.
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During World War II, the United States didn't just fear a German atomic bomb, but also a German dirty bomb. But secrecy made acting on such fears difficult.
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