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2020
August 2020
 4
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How many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
My new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists outlines the history of casualty estimation attempts, and why they have been inherently fraught.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, Hiroshima, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki
2018
June 2018
29
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Cleansing thermonuclear fire
What would it take to turn the world into one big fusion reaction, wiping it clean of life and turning it into a barren rock? Asking for a friend.
Tags: 1940s, 1970s, Bad ideas, Edward Teller, H-bomb, Nuclear testing, Speculation, Trinity
2016
July 2016
15
Meditations
A brief history of the nuclear triad
How the US came to have three major strategic nuclear platforms, and why it started calling them a "triad."
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s, H-bomb, ICBM, SLBM, Soviet Union
2015
December 2015
11
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The curious death of Oppenheimer's mistress
Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, Espionage, Historiography, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos, Manhattan (show), Manhattan Project, Speculation
March 2015
27
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H-bomb headaches
The US government has once again created a headache for itself in trying to censor information about the hydrogen bomb.
Tags: 1950s, 1970s, 2010s, Atomic Energy Commission, Declassification, Department of Energy, Howard Morland, Hydrogen bomb, New York Times, Speculation, The Progressive case
2013
October 2013
25
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Nixon and the bomb: "I just want you to think big, Henry!"
The 37th President had a strange relationship with nuclear weapons — he didn't think they mattered very much.
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Bad ideas, Books, Proliferation
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