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2024
September 2024
July 2024
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News and Notes
2023
June 2023
2022
December 2022
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Meditations
May 2022
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Redactions
What if Japan did offer nearly-full surrender terms to the US in early 1945? In the 1940s, just this was claimed — but it's not very likely.
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Redactions
Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? Short answer: no. Long answer: also no, but it's a bit complicated.
April 2022
9
News and Notes
An accounting of NUKEMAP traffic for the first few months of 2022, including the massive spike in usage during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
February 2022
3
Meditations
NUKEMAP was released into the world a decade ago, believe it or not.
2021
November 2021
19
Visions
The Rosatom historical website has an entire section devoted to "Atomic Fun" — jokes and stories from the Soviet nuclear program. It's... something.
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Redactions
Ever wonder how many people currently have the enigmatic Q Clearance, the required security clearance for access to nuclear secrets? Well, I found out.
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Meditations | News and Notes
Reflections on ten years of nuclear history blogging, where it has gotten me, and where I think I can still go with it.
October 2021
29
Redactions
The untold story of the world's largest nuclear bomb, the Tsar Bomba, and the secret US efforts to match it.
June 2021
14
Redactions
A bizarre leak from a powerful Senator made the Top Secret debate over building the hydrogen bomb part of national discourse — and doomed its direction.
May 2021
17
Redactions | Visions
How the wrong settings on a photocopier has let us have a glimpse at a forbidden image of a modern thermonuclear warhead.
April 2021
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Meditations | News and Notes
Reflections on the life of John-Coster Mullen (1946-2021), the truck driver who sought nuclear history and secrets.
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2020
August 2020
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Redactions
My new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists outlines the history of casualty estimation attempts, and why they have been inherently fraught.
July 2020
16
Meditations
If the first nuclear weapons test had been a flop, would the world be better or worse off?
June 2020
9
Meditations
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.
January 2020
8
Articles
Why the problem of "the President and the bomb" isn't about the "crazy President," but something far more pernicious and possible.
2019
December 2019
13
News and Notes | Visions
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
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Redactions
In 1953, an eminent US scientist lost the "secret of the H-bomb" under bizarre circumstances. Read the documents behind the tale.
January 2019
13
Meditations
I’ve spent the last few days in Hawaii, talking to journalists, experts, and residents about the lessons of the 2018 ballistic missile alert false alarm.
2018
June 2018
29
Redactions
What would it take to turn the world into one big fusion reaction, wiping it clean of life and turning it into a barren rock? Asking for a friend.
May 2018
10
News and Notes | Visions
A new exhibit on the first nuclear-armed submarines is opening this week at the Intrepid Museum in New York.
January 2018
19
Redactions
A remarkable set of speech drafts from August 6-9th, 1945, shows an evolution in Truman's thinking about the bomb — from an unambiguous good, to a horror that needed to justified.
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Articles » Washington Post
The Hawaiian incident was an unacceptable mistake, but perhaps a welcome wake-up call.
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News and Notes
Reflections on the end of 2017, and the start of a new nuclear year.
2017
August 2017
7
Meditations
Dispatches on a Roundtable and a Workshop with historians and political scientists in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing.
