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2012
September 2012
19
Visions
Nuclear strategy is one part cold logic, one part emotional terror.
August 2012
31
Visions
The security badges produced for the Los Alamos project present a dizzying display of the many people who worked on the atomic bomb.
22
Redactions
What would have happened if the planes carrying the first atomic bombs had crashed on takeoff? Bad things.
15
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What the first technical history of the atomic bomb did — and didn't — say about the work of designing the bomb.
10
Visions
American newspaper front pages from the first five days of the atomic bomb's public debut.
July 2012
16
Redactions
A rare first-hand account of the first atomic bomb test, from the President of Harvard University.
11
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Even the real Dr. Strangelove dreaded getting judged by the standards of "loyalty" required for a security clearance.
6
Visions
A new comic book series imagines the Manhattan Project as a sci-fi odyssey.
4
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Enrico Fermi is today remembered as a great contributor to the American bomb project, but in the beginning, he was an "enemy alien."
June 2012
22
Visions
Do the eccentric hairstyles of two bomb designers tell us anything about the history of the bomb?
6
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A new theory on why Joseph Rotblat left Los Alamos, and Groves' warning to the AEC that he had "doubts" about certain people on the project.
May 2012
4
Visions
A brief meditation on the difficulty of recapturing the blueness of J. Robert Oppenheimer's eyes, and why it might be worth doing.
April 2012
6
Visions
A selection of Time magazine covers featuring nuclear weapons topics over the decades.
4
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What did General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer talk about in their first post-Hiroshima telephone call?
March 2012
28
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The unusual history of insuring the bomb in the United States — yes, insurance — dates back to the Manhattan Project.
14
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It should come as no surprise that so much of the work of secrecy is creating ever more baroque and detailed categorization schemes.
February 2012
20
Meditations
New footage has been found of scientists romping around Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. What does that get us, intellectually?
January 2012
27
Visions
The story behind one of the more striking photographs of the father of the atomic bomb.
25
Redactions
Differently-redacted documents from the infamous spy's FBI file, with discussions on why the FBI and MI5 weren't keen to share information.
18
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On the agonizing compromises made when one brother is the country's top nuclear scientist, and the other is a former Communist Party member.
2011
December 2011
21
Redactions
Edward Teller's (self-serving) version of the history of the hydrogen bomb, from 1953.
7
Redactions
November 2011
21
Meditations
8
Meditations
