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2012
August 2012
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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.
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Visions
American newspaper front pages from the first five days of the atomic bomb's public debut.
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When the scientists at Los Alamos made plans for how to use the atomic bomb, they optimized them for the burning of civilians.
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Meditations
The only reason we didn't cross a moral line at Hiroshima is because we'd already long since crossed it.
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Visions
Nearly seven decades into the nuclear age, there's a little bit of fallout in everyone.
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In November 1945, Beria sent an agent to interview Niels Bohr about the atomic bomb. Both Bohr and Beria, though, held their cards close.
July 2012
27
Visions
A recent Russian-language book has a treasure trove of rare images of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
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The top WWII scientific administrator's plan for controlling BW warfare was in reality a trial balloon for a plan to control the bomb.
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Meditations
Milton Leitenberg and Raymond A. Zilinskas' new book on the Soviet bioweapons program, answers big questions, and raises new mysteries.
20
Visions
A step-by-step guide to firing the Davy Crockett, the "atomic bazooka," and the smallest nuke in the Cold War US arsenal.
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A rare first-hand account of the first atomic bomb test, from the President of Harvard University.
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Visions
What does an actual nuclear explosion sound like? Not what you'd think, from most nuclear test footage.
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Even the real Dr. Strangelove dreaded getting judged by the standards of "loyalty" required for a security clearance.
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Meditations
"Be sure that no open flame, lighted cigarette, or other spark potential is present when the bomb is uncovered and opened..."
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Visions
A new comic book series imagines the Manhattan Project as a sci-fi odyssey.
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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."
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Meditations
Reports from the annual meeting for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations: Farm Hall, David Lilienthal, Atoms for Peace.
June 2012
29
Visions
The exuberance and ambivalence of the bomb, as seen through the lens of editorial cartoons from August 1945.
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Hans Bethe on why it was safe to declassify Project SUNSHINE, a study of the global effects of nuclear fallout.
25
Meditations
Two new articles on centrifuge history shed important light on US-UK nuclear interactions in the Cold War, and the problem of proliferation.
22
Visions
Do the eccentric hairstyles of two bomb designers tell us anything about the history of the bomb?
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Why Hans Bethe wanted to postpone the test of the first hydrogen bomb in 1952.
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Meditations
What would have happened if the US hadn't decided to try and build an H-bomb in early 1950? Some alternative scenarios are considered.
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Visions
Considering the test site of the first Soviet atomic bombs, from 1949 to the present.
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Hours after the first H-bomb was detonated, the press knew about it. But why did the government try to keep it secret for years after that?
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Visions
Thoughts on attempts to re-capture the horror of a nuclear explosion.
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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.
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Visions
Photographs of gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment, past and present.
May 2012
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Gas centrifuges posed a tough problem for the US in the 1960s, perched in between fears of proliferation and the desires of industry.
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Meditations
Gas centrifuges could have been made to work during the Manhattan Project, but they didn't figure out how.
