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2013
July 2013
30
Visions
Two new photoessays about the first atomic bomb and its creators.
25
News and Notes | Visions
The new NUKEMAPs are up!
12
News and Notes | Visions
A teaser for the things to come.
June 2013
21
Redactions | Visions
Making sense of the worst radiological accident in US history.
May 2013
31
Visions
The captivating, intimate horror of the American B-29 incendiary raids against Japan during World War II.
24
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?
April 2013
5
Visions
A vision of future war, only a few months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
March 2013
22
Visions
When seen in color, what were cities of dust become cities of rubble.
1
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
8
News and Notes | Visions
Some data from a year of NUKEMAP, and a promise of new things to come...
January 2013
22
Visions
The U.K. Atomic Energy Authority's bizarre coat of arms, and more H-bomb drawings from George Gamow.
11
Visions
An investigation into the graphical history of the UN nuclear watchdog.
2012
December 2012
25
Visions
Decorating a tree, Hanford-style.
14
Visions
How does one recruit nuclear weapons designers? In the 1950s, you could just take out ads in popular magazines.
November 2012
30
Redactions | Visions
The US government doesn't like to draw atomic bombs, but the Russians don't mind drawing American nukes.
7
Meditations | Visions
Reflections on a year of nuclear secrecy blogging. Plus some neat images.
September 2012
19
Visions
Nuclear strategy is one part cold logic, one part emotional terror.
August 2012
31
Visions
The security badges produced for the Los Alamos project present a dizzying display of the many people who worked on the atomic bomb.
24
Visions
In 1945, Tinian was the hub of the Pacific Front. Today, it's a nearly-empty tropical paradise. For now, anyway.
17
Visions
When "atomic" beat "nuclear," and when we stopped defining our age by our reactors.
10
Visions
American newspaper front pages from the first five days of the atomic bomb's public debut.
3
Visions
Nearly seven decades into the nuclear age, there's a little bit of fallout in everyone.
July 2012
27
Visions
A recent Russian-language book has a treasure trove of rare images of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
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.
13
Visions
What does an actual nuclear explosion sound like? Not what you'd think, from most nuclear test footage.
6
Visions
A new comic book series imagines the Manhattan Project as a sci-fi odyssey.
June 2012
29
Visions
The exuberance and ambivalence of the bomb, as seen through the lens of editorial cartoons from August 1945.
22
Visions
Do the eccentric hairstyles of two bomb designers tell us anything about the history of the bomb?
15
Visions
Considering the test site of the first Soviet atomic bombs, from 1949 to the present.
8
Visions
Thoughts on attempts to re-capture the horror of a nuclear explosion.
