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2023
June 2023
2020
9
Meditations
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.
2016
April 2016
8
Meditations
Inventing the bomb was hard. Maintaining the bomb was harder.
2015
December 2015
11
Redactions
Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?
November 2015
27
Visions
What does an atomic bomb scientist look like? Not just white men.
October 2015
9
Redactions
Niigata was one of the possible targets for atomic attack in 1945. Why was it spared? And why don't we ever talk about it?
September 2015
8
News and Notes
Richard Hewlett, the first official historian of the Atomic Energy Commission, has died at the age of 92.
4
Redactions
Did "Big Science" pioneer Ernest Lawrence believe that Japan should have been warned before Hiroshima?
August 2015
21
Meditations
Seven decades later, how do we talk about the atomic bombs?
3
Meditations
Considering a few of the options that were on the table in 1945.
January 2015
16
Redactions
What do the newly released Oppenheimer transcripts tell us about the security hearing, and its original redaction?
2014
September 2014
5
Redactions
When the head of the Manhattan Project had questions about the history of the atomic bomb, he had a special, secret place to look for answers.
June 2014
27
Meditations
How important was Albert Einstein's work or personal intervention to the making of the atomic bomb? Not as important as most people think.
6
Meditations
Most of Feynman's stories about the bomb are about his hijinks. But what did he really do on the Manhattan Project, and what did he think about the bomb?
May 2014
23
Visions
What did Oppenheimer mean when he famously said, "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds"? A foray into the Bhagavad-Gita.
2013
December 2013
27
Redactions
Why did three major DOE historical databases go offline in late 2013?
August 2013
9
Meditations
Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.
May 2013
17
Meditations
Of the $2 billion spent on the Manhattan Project, where did it go, and what does it tell us about how we should talk about the history of the bomb?
March 2013
29
Meditations
How many ways are there to talk about secrecy? Quite a few.
8
Meditations | Redactions
Where do historians stand, in the 2010s, about the decision to use the atomic bomb? A report from a recent workshop.
2012
November 2012
7
Meditations | Visions
Reflections on a year of nuclear secrecy blogging. Plus some neat images.
May 2012
4
Visions
A brief meditation on the difficulty of recapturing the blueness of J. Robert Oppenheimer's eyes, and why it might be worth doing.
April 2012
25
Redactions
What would have happened if Japan hadn't surrendered and the US had continued to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities?
February 2012
Meditations
Should we try to show that people in the past were just like us, or lived in another country? Each direction has its perils.
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