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2020
August 2020
 4
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How many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, Hiroshima, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki
2018
June 2018
29
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Cleansing thermonuclear fire
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
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
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
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!"
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Bad ideas, Books, Proliferation
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