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2021
May 2021
17Warheads... revealed!
Redactions | Visions
How not to redact a warhead
How the wrong settings on a photocopier has let us have a glimpse at a forbidden image of a modern thermonuclear warhead.
Tags: 1990s, Bomb design, H-bomb, Los Alamos
2020
June 2020
 9
Meditations
What journalists should know about the atomic bombings
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, 2020s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2016
April 2016
 8
Meditations
Maintaining the bomb
Inventing the bomb was hard. Maintaining the bomb was harder.
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, Atomic Energy Commission, Books, Hanford, Historiography, Livermore, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project
2015
December 2015
 4
Meditations
Why spy?
What caused the atomic spies of Los Alamos to do what they did? Somewhere in the zone between ideology and ego, monsters live.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, Espionage, FBI, Klaus Fuchs, Leslie Groves, Los Alamos, Manhattan (show), Manhattan Project, Rosenbergs, Ted Hall
January 2015
30
Visions
Preserving, and interpreting, the Manhattan Project
Why creating a "Manhattan Project National Park" is an important and necessary step to preserve the past.
Tags: 1990s, 2010s, Manhattan Project
2012
April 2012
20
Visions
Nevada Test Site's "Arnold" OPSEC Videos
Crude OPSEC ("operations security") animations from the late-80's, early-90's Department of Energy.
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, Department of Energy, Graphic design, Leaks
January 2012
13
Visions
Excavating an H-bomb (1998)
When Sandia found the casing of an old H-bomb in a classified landfill, they did the sensible thing: take photos of themselves with it.
Tags: 1950s, 1990s, H-bomb, Post-Cold War
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