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2019
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.
2017
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.
2013
25
News and Notes | Visions
The new NUKEMAPs are up!
April 2013
5
Visions
A vision of future war, only a few months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2012
December 2012
21
Meditations
Children and existential fear, from the high Cold War to Stockton, California, from Stockton to Newtown, Connecticut.
September 2012
5
Redactions
In 1955, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission experimentally answered the question none of us were asking: if you nuke beer, does it change the taste?
May 2012
16
Redactions
Why Norris Bradbury didn't want to build the bomb... again. And what they ended up eventually doing about it.
February 2012
29
Redactions
A Civil Defense pamphlet from 1956 explains how to dispose of the millions of corpses after a "nuclear bomb disaster." Includes a flowchart!
17
Visions
An obscure Soviet publication on nuclear weapons reveals differences in how different countries draw their atomic bombs.
10
Visions
A proto-NUKEMAP from 1950 tried to help industrialists assess their risk from atomic warfare.
8
Redactions
The story behind the broadcast of the first hydrogen bomb test -- two years after it happened.
January 2012
23
Meditations
New nuclear tidbits from eight just-declassified secret transcripts of the Congressional committee charged with atomic oversight issues.
2011
November 2011
30
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