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2017
May 2017
 2
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Was the first history of the atomic bomb biased towards physics to avoid public associations with chemical weapons? My take on a recent article.
2016
February 2016
12
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How did the first history of the atomic bomb end up in a Soviet Gulag prison?
2014
September 2014
 5
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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.
2012
November 2012
30
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The US government doesn't like to draw atomic bombs, but the Russians don't mind drawing American nukes.
August 2012
17
Visions
When "atomic" beat "nuclear," and when we stopped defining our age by our reactors.
15
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What the first technical history of the atomic bomb did — and didn't — say about the work of designing the bomb.
10
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American newspaper front pages from the first five days of the atomic bomb's public debut.
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In November 1945, Beria sent an agent to interview Niels Bohr about the atomic bomb. Both Bohr and Beria, though, held their cards close.
June 2012
29
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The exuberance and ambivalence of the bomb, as seen through the lens of editorial cartoons from August 1945.
May 2012
 2
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In 1946, scientists at the U. of Penn. attempted to publish a book about atomic bomb design. 60+ years later, here is the censored chapter.
April 2012
 4
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What did General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer talk about in their first post-Hiroshima telephone call?
March 2012
30
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Alternative views of the first nuclear test.
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Why Life magazine's speculative August 1945 story on the atomic bomb -- and its drawings -- raised the censors' eyebrows.
January 2012
27
News and Notes
In early 1942, General Leslie Groves wrote to the future author of the famous Smyth Report for advice about whether his son study physics.
2011
December 2011
 7
November 2011
 8
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