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2013
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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News and Notes
Tune in on September 11, 2013, to hear me talk live from Philadelphia on the "nuclear age."
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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.
August 2013
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Meditations
The terrible banality of a weapon explicitly invented to target civilian populations.
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Did Klaus Fuchs tell the Soviet Union how to make a hydrogen bomb? Recently released documents from the Russian archives shed new light on the question.
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Japan managed to avoid getting the world's third plutonium core dropped on them, but it still managed to leave behind a deadly legacy.
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Meditations
Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.
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Meditations
Thoughts on the 68th anniversary of Hiroshima, and what gets lost when we focus on individual events.
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Meditations | Visions
I thought I knew a lot about nuclear fallout, but digging into the details taught me some subtle but important points about how it worked.
July 2013
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Visions
Two new photoessays about the first atomic bomb and its creators.
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News and Notes | Visions
The new NUKEMAPs are up!
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News and Notes
NUKEMAP2 and NUKEMAP3D are now online!
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News and Notes | Visions
A teaser for the things to come.
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An unusual view on the possibility of scientific secrecy from physicist who was inside the Manhattan Project but not making the bomb.
June 2013
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Redactions | Visions
Making sense of the worst radiological accident in US history.
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Meditations
A new tool for journalists who need to spice up their stories with Hiroshima references.
May 2013
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Visions
The captivating, intimate horror of the American B-29 incendiary raids against Japan during World War II.
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Visions
The Manhattan Project gaseous diffusion facility, K-25, was once the world's largest factory under a single roof. But what did it look like on the inside?
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Meditations
Of the $2 billion spent on the Manhattan Project, where did it go, and what does it tell us about how we should talk about the history of the bomb?
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A brief update to the last post: translations of leaflets dropped on the Japanese after Hiroshima.
April 2013
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Did the United States warn Japan about the atomic bombs prior to their use? A mystery is unravelled.
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Meditations | Redactions
Blacking something out is only a step away from highlighting its importance, and the void makes us curious.
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Visions
A vision of future war, only a few months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
March 2013
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Meditations
How many ways are there to talk about secrecy? Quite a few.
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Visions
When seen in color, what were cities of dust become cities of rubble.
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Meditations | Redactions
Did atomic secrets kill Lt. Col. Paul P. Stoutenburgh?
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Meditations | Redactions
Where do historians stand, in the 2010s, about the decision to use the atomic bomb? A report from a recent workshop.
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Redactions | Visions
An anonymous wartime wordsmith comes up with an novel interpretation of why Hanford was so secretive, and so unpleasant to work in.
February 2013
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A poem and song, both classified "secret," shed light on the early days of continental nuclear testing.
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Meditations
Why I get annoyed when we talk about meteors, earthquakes, and tsunamis in terms of megatonnage.
