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2019
December 2019
 3Image of Wheeler's statement to the FBI
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John Wheeler's H-bomb Blues
In 1953, an eminent US scientist lost the "secret of the H-bomb" under bizarre circumstances. Read the documents behind the tale.
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Teller, Espionage, FBI, H-bomb, J. Edgar Hoover, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
2016
May 2016
27
Meditations
Obama visits Hiroshima
Some thoughts about the first sitting President to have visited Hiroshima.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1980s, 2010s, Barack Obama, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima
2012
June 2012
13
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The Ivy MIKE leak
Hours after the first H-bomb was detonated, the press knew about it. But why did the government try to keep it secret for years after that?
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Dwight D. Eisenhower, FBI, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Leaks, Restricted Data
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