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2012
April 2012
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One of the trickiest parts of the Manhattan Project was the fact that it was a secret; that there was *a* secret was *the* secret.
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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.
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The degree to which the UK and Canada should be equal partners with the US in the atomic bomb project was a controversial subject in 1942.
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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.
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Dissecting President Truman's announcement of the atomic bomb, which was neither written nor actually said by Truman himself.
February 2012
29
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A Civil Defense pamphlet from 1956 explains how to dispose of the millions of corpses after a "nuclear bomb disaster." Includes a flowchart!
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The famous collaboration that led to the creation of the hydrogen bomb.
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General Groves' scientific adviser discusses the implications of the US stopping the production of atomic bombs just after WWII.
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The story behind the broadcast of the first hydrogen bomb test -- two years after it happened.
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An engineer close to the development of the atom bomb considers the relative risks and benefits of declassifying the concept of "implosion."
January 2012
25
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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.
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One of the most famous documents of the nuclear age was actually censored when it was first released. Find out what was removed, and why.
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A close read of what the famous 1967 report on the ease of proliferation actually says -- and doesn't say.
2011
December 2011
28
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Can something be secret even if it is wrong?
26
Meditations | Redactions
Describing my archival techniques, plus a document about the H-bomb's development.
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The attempt by staffers on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy to run-around the AEC while pushing for a second nuclear weapons lab.
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Edward Teller's (self-serving) version of the history of the hydrogen bomb, from 1953.
20
Meditations | Redactions
I discuss my archival techniques, plus showcase a curious memo about whether Ted Hall was a "second Fuchs" at Los Alamos.
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Communicating the results of the first atomic bomb from Tinian to Washington, DC, was no easy thing.
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November 2011
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