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2021
June 2021
14
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A bizarre leak from a powerful Senator made the Top Secret debate over building the hydrogen bomb part of national discourse — and doomed its direction.
April 2021
25Photograph of John Coster-Mullen by Alex Wellerstein, 2015
Meditations | News and Notes
Reflections on the life of John-Coster Mullen (1946-2021), the truck driver who sought nuclear history and secrets.
2014
March 2014
 7
Visions
A rare find: science fiction giant John Campbell wrote about dirty bombs and U-235 in the summer of 1941.
2013
November 2013
 8
Meditations
A portrait of a year in flux, when the possibilities of a new order moved from the limitless to the concrete.
October 2013
11
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Who told Werner Heisenberg that an atomic bomb might be dropped on Dresden? Plus: another curious wartime leak.
September 2013
20
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How did an article about the work at the Los Alamos laboratory come to be published in March 1944?
2012
June 2012
20Hans Bethe's Los Alamos ID badge
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Why Hans Bethe wanted to postpone the test of the first hydrogen bomb in 1952.
13
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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?
April 2012
20
Visions
Crude OPSEC ("operations security") animations from the late-80's, early-90's Department of Energy.
2011
December 2011
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November 2011
 8
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