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2023
June 2023
16
Meditations
Deconstructing "The Doomsday Machine" - Part 1: The Question of Memory
Tags: 2020s, Books, Daniel Ellsberg, Historiography, RAND Corporation
2022
December 2022
21J. Robert Oppenheimer's portrait from the cover of the June 1954 TIME magazine issue covering his loss of his security clearance.
Meditations
Oppenheimer: Vacated but not Vindicated
Tags: 1950s, 2020s, Atomic Energy Commission, Clearances, Department of Energy, J. Robert Oppenheimer
February 2022
 3
Meditations
10 years of NUKEMAP
Tags: 2010s, 2020s, NUKEMAP
2021
November 2021
 7
Meditations | News and Notes
A decade of Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
Tags: 2010s, 2020s, Books, Musings
April 2021
25Photograph of John Coster-Mullen by Alex Wellerstein, 2015
Meditations | News and Notes
In Memoriam: John Coster-Mullen (1946-2021)
Tags: 2020s, Bomb design, Books, Fat Man, Leaks, Little Boy, Speculation
2020
July 2020
16
Meditations
What if the Trinity test had failed?
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, Harry S. Truman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Trinity, Truman
June 2020
 9
Meditations
What journalists should know about the atomic bombings
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, 2020s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2019
January 2019
13
Meditations
Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later
Tags: 2010s, Accidents, Civil Defense, Graphic design
2017
August 2017
 7
Meditations
Global Hiroshima: Notes from a bullet train
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Donald Trump, Hiroshima, North Korea
2016
December 2016
23
Meditations
The President and the Bomb: Redux
Tags: 2010s, Command and control, Donald Trump, President and the Bomb
November 2016
18
Meditations
The President and the Bomb
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Command and control, David E. Lilienthal, Harry S. Truman, Leslie R. Groves, President and the Bomb
July 2016
15
Meditations
A brief history of the nuclear triad
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s, H-bomb, ICBM, SLBM, Soviet Union
May 2016
27
Meditations
Obama visits Hiroshima
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1980s, 2010s, Barack Obama, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima
April 2016
 8
Meditations
Maintaining the bomb
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, Atomic Energy Commission, Books, Hanford, Historiography, Livermore, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project
March 2016
18
Meditations
My conversation on secrecy with a Super Spook
Tags: 2010s, CIA, Compartmentalization, Leslie Groves, NSA, Secrecy reform
2015
December 2015
 4
Meditations
Why spy?
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, Espionage, FBI, Klaus Fuchs, Leslie Groves, Los Alamos, Manhattan (show), Manhattan Project, Rosenbergs, Ted Hall
August 2015
21
Meditations
Hiroshima and Nagasaki at 70
Tags: 1940s, Fat Man, Hiroshima, Historiography, Nagasaki, NUKEMAP
 3
Meditations
Were there alternatives to the atomic bombings?
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Historiography, Manhattan Project, Musings, Nagasaki, Speculation
June 2015
12
Meditations
What remains of the Manhattan Project
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Anniversaries, Business and industry, Hanford, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historic Park, Oak Ridge
May 2015
29
Meditations
History in the flesh
Tags: 2010s, Archives, Hiroshima, Los Alamos, Musings, Nagasaki
January 2015
 7
Meditations
When bad history meets bad journalism
Tags: 1940s, Bad ideas, Germany, Speculation
2014
October 2014
17
Meditations
The riddle of Julius Rosenberg
Tags: 1950s, 2010s, Bomb design, Espionage, Klaus Fuchs, Rosenbergs
September 2014
22
Meditations
Tokyo vs. Hiroshima
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Firebombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Speculation, Tokyo
August 2014
22
Meditations
The luck of Kokura
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Japan, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Speculation, Tinian
June 2014
27
Meditations
A bomb without Einstein?
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Albert Einstein, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Historiography, Leo Szilard, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
 6
Meditations
Feynman and the Bomb
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Historiography, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Richard Feynman
May 2014
16
Meditations
Szilard's chain reaction: visionary or crank?
Tags: Leo Szilard, Nuclear power, Speculation
February 2014
28
Meditations
Castle Bravo at 60
Tags: 1950s, Accidents, Bad ideas, H-bomb, Nuclear fallout, Nuclear testing
2013
December 2013
23
Meditations
Kilotons per kilogram
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Bomb design, Graphic design, H-bomb, Nuclear testing
 6
Meditations
The trouble with airbursts
Tags: Hiroshima, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, NUKEMAP
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