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2016
April 2016
 8
Meditations
Maintaining the bomb
Inventing the bomb was hard. Maintaining the bomb was harder.
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, Atomic Energy Commission, Books, Hanford, Historiography, Livermore, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project
2014
October 2014
16
News and Notes
Public lecture: "The Secret Histories of Laser Fusion"
A public lecture on how laser fusion came to be, and the unique classification problems it posed for the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tags: 2010s, Fusion, H-bomb, Livermore
2012
December 2012
14
Visions
Advertising for weapons designers
How does one recruit nuclear weapons designers? In the 1950s, you could just take out ads in popular magazines.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Bomb design, Business and industry, Gender issues, Graphic design, Livermore, Los Alamos
January 2012
 4
Redactions
Re-examining the The Nth Country Experiment (1967)
A close read of what the famous 1967 report on the ease of proliferation actually says -- and doesn't say.
Tags: 1960s, Bomb design, Livermore, Proliferation, Terrorism
2011
December 2011
22
Redactions
Archives Week, Day 4: Conspiring for Livermore (1952)
The attempt by staffers on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy to run-around the AEC while pushing for a second nuclear weapons lab.
Tags: 1950s, Archives, Bad ideas, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Livermore, Los Alamos
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