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2024
September 2024
2022
February 2022
3
Meditations
NUKEMAP was released into the world a decade ago, believe it or not.
2021
November 2021
12
Redactions
Ever wonder how many people currently have the enigmatic Q Clearance, the required security clearance for access to nuclear secrets? Well, I found out.
7
Meditations | News and Notes
Reflections on ten years of nuclear history blogging, where it has gotten me, and where I think I can still go with it.
2020
January 2020
8
Articles
Why the problem of "the President and the bomb" isn't about the "crazy President," but something far more pernicious and possible.
2019
December 2019
13
News and Notes | Visions
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
January 2019
13
Meditations
I’ve spent the last few days in Hawaii, talking to journalists, experts, and residents about the lessons of the 2018 ballistic missile alert false alarm.
2018
16
Articles » Washington Post
The Hawaiian incident was an unacceptable mistake, but perhaps a welcome wake-up call.
8
News and Notes
Reflections on the end of 2017, and the start of a new nuclear year.
2017
August 2017
7
Meditations
Dispatches on a Roundtable and a Workshop with historians and political scientists in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing.
July 2017
13
News and Notes
Announcing a new, provocative venture at the Stevens Institute of Technology, for building the next-generation of nuclear risk communication.
May 2017
2
Redactions
Was the first history of the atomic bomb biased towards physics to avoid public associations with chemical weapons? My take on a recent article.
April 2017
10
Redactions
New sources further illuminate the tricky issue of the nuclear chain of command.
2016
December 2016
23
Meditations
Yes, the president has the unilateral authority to order nuclear strike; yes, there is something we can do about that if that disturbs you.
November 2016
18
Meditations
Why asking whether there are checks on the US President's ability to order a nuclear attack gets the issue exactly backwards.
September 2016
23
Visions
With nuclear weapons, sometimes you have to agree to know less if you want to know anything.
July 2016
15
Meditations
How the US came to have three major strategic nuclear platforms, and why it started calling them a "triad."
May 2016
27
Meditations
Some thoughts about the first sitting President to have visited Hiroshima.
April 2016
22
Visions
What do the shapes of nuclear weapons reveal, and what do they hide?
March 2016
18
Meditations
If you could talk about secrecy with the former head of the CIA and the NSA, what would you say?
February 2016
5
Redactions
The year in historical nuclear scholarship.
January 2016
9
News and Notes
Brief thoughts on the recent North Korean "H-bomb" test.
2015
October 2015
13
Visions
Some notes on doing historical consulting for the period-piece, neo-noir drama, "Manhattan."
September 2015
8
News and Notes
Richard Hewlett, the first official historian of the Atomic Energy Commission, has died at the age of 92.
June 2015
12
Meditations
What remains of the Manhattan Project? A lot of documents. Some people. A few places. And a handful of artifacts.
May 2015
29
Meditations
Historians sometimes need a reminder that places and people, not just documents, make up the past.
March 2015
27
News and Notes | Redactions
The US government has once again created a headache for itself in trying to censor information about the hydrogen bomb.
January 2015
30
Visions
Why creating a "Manhattan Project National Park" is an important and necessary step to preserve the past.
16
Redactions
What do the newly released Oppenheimer transcripts tell us about the security hearing, and its original redaction?
9
Redactions
In October 2014, the lost Oppenheimer security hearing transcripts were released. This is the story behind the story.
