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2013
March 2013
22
Visions
When seen in color, what were cities of dust become cities of rubble.
8
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Where do historians stand, in the 2010s, about the decision to use the atomic bomb? A report from a recent workshop.
2012
November 2012
15
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What would make a nuclear bomb attack even worse? How about a nuclear attack that generates its own thunderstorm?
October 2012
18
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Did Truman know about the radiation effects of the atomic bombs before they were used? Does it matter?
September 2012
28
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A debate by Leo Szilard and Edward Teller on the moral responsibility of the scientist just before the bombing of Hiroshima.
August 2012
24
Visions
In 1945, Tinian was the hub of the Pacific Front. Today, it's a nearly-empty tropical paradise. For now, anyway.
22
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What would have happened if the planes carrying the first atomic bombs had crashed on takeoff? Bad things.
10
Visions
American newspaper front pages from the first five days of the atomic bomb's public debut.
8
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When the scientists at Los Alamos made plans for how to use the atomic bomb, they optimized them for the burning of civilians.
6
Meditations
The only reason we didn't cross a moral line at Hiroshima is because we'd already long since crossed it.
June 2012
29
Visions
The exuberance and ambivalence of the bomb, as seen through the lens of editorial cartoons from August 1945.
May 2012
16
Redactions
Why Norris Bradbury didn't want to build the bomb... again. And what they ended up eventually doing about it.
April 2012
25
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What would have happened if Japan hadn't surrendered and the US had continued to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities?
18
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General Groves gets grilled by the press at Oak Ridge on the subject of "the secret," the "Super," and radioactivity at Hiroshima.
2011
December 2011
14
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Communicating the results of the first atomic bomb from Tinian to Washington, DC, was no easy thing.
