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2022
May 2022
 6
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Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 2)
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
 2Photograph of the Suzuki cabinet, June 1945
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Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 1)
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hiroshima, Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
2021
November 2021
19
Visions
Surely You're Joking, Comrade Beria!
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Bad ideas, Lavrenty Beria, Richard Feynman, Rosatom, Soviet Union
October 2021
29
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"The possibility of bigger bangs"
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Atomic Energy Commission, Bad ideas, Bomb design, H-bomb, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
2020
June 2020
 9
Meditations
What journalists should know about the atomic bombings
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, 2020s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2016
July 2016
25
Visions
Operation Crossroads at 70
Tags: 1940s, Accidents, International control, Manhattan Project, Marshall Islands, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union, Trinity
15
Meditations
A brief history of the nuclear triad
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s, H-bomb, ICBM, SLBM, Soviet Union
May 2016
 9
Visions
Mapping the US nuclear war plan for 1956
Tags: 1950s, Bad ideas, China, North Korea, Nuclear fallout, Nuclear war, Overkill, Soviet Union
February 2016
12
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Solzhenitsyn and the Smyth Report
Tags: 1940s, Leslie R. Groves, Smyth Report, Soviet Union
2015
June 2015
26
Visions
Dogs in space
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Books, Graphic design, Soviet Union, Space Race
2014
February 2014
14
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Leo Szilard, war criminal?
Tags: 1940s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Leo Szilard, Leslie Groves, Soviet Union
January 2014
31
Visions
Sakharov's turning point: The first Soviet H-bomb test
Tags: 1950s, Bad ideas, Bomb design, H-bomb, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
2013
November 2013
 8
Meditations
Liminal 1946: A Year in Flux
Tags: 1940s, Atomic Energy Commission, David E. Lilienthal, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leaks, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Non-proliferation, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
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How many people worked on the Manhattan Project?
Tags: 1940s, Hanford, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Soviet Union
August 2013
23
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The Spy, the Human Computer, and the H-bomb
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Edward Teller, Espionage, H-bomb, Klaus Fuchs, Patents, Soviet Union
July 2013
 5
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Shurcliff on Secrecy
Tags: 1940s, Espionage, Manhattan Project, Proliferation, Soviet Union, Vannevar Bush
April 2013
 5
Visions
The 36-Hour War: Life Magazine, 1945
Tags: 1940s, Bad ideas, Civil Defense, Graphic design, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Soviet Union, Speculation, Trinity
March 2013
 8
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The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Consensus View?
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2012
November 2012
30
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Soviet drawings of an American bomb
Tags: 1940s, 2000s, Bomb design, Fat Man, Graphic design, Klaus Fuchs, Manhattan Project, Smyth Report, Soviet Union, Trinity
 2
Meditations
Lessons from the Crisis
Tags: 1960s, Bad ideas, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nuclear war, Soviet Union
October 2012
25
Meditations
About those nukes in Cuba....
Tags: 1960s, Bad ideas, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nuclear war, Soviet Union
September 2012
12
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In Search of a Bigger Boom
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Bad ideas, Edward Teller, H-bomb, Klaus Fuchs, Manhattan Project, Soviet Union
August 2012
10
Visions
The Week of the Atom Bomb
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Smyth Report, Soviet Union, William L. Laurence
 1
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What Bohr told Beria
Tags: 1940s, Espionage, Lavrenty Beria, Manhattan Project, Smyth Report, Soviet Union
July 2012
27
Visions
Rare Photos of the Soviet Bomb Project
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Books, Espionage, Klaus Fuchs, Lavrenty Beria, Nuclear power, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union, Trinity
23
Meditations
Mysteries of the Soviet Biological Weapons Program
Tags: Bad ideas, Bioweapons, Books, Disinformation, Espionage, FBI, Soviet Union
June 2012
18
Meditations
What If Truman Hadn't Ordered the H-bomb Crash Program?
Tags: 1950s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
15
Visions
Semipalatinsk Then and Now
Tags: 1940s, Books, Espionage, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
May 2012
28
Meditations
Zippe's Centrifuges
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Centrifuges, Manhattan Project, Nuclear power, Proliferation, Soviet Union
 9
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The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements (September 1945)
Tags: 1940s, Bad ideas, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Soviet Union
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