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2021
April 2021
25Photograph of John Coster-Mullen by Alex Wellerstein, 2015
Meditations | News and Notes
In Memoriam: John Coster-Mullen (1946-2021)
Tags: 2020s, Bomb design, Books, Fat Man, Leaks, Little Boy, Speculation
2018
June 2018
29
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Cleansing thermonuclear fire
Tags: 1940s, 1970s, Bad ideas, Edward Teller, H-bomb, Nuclear testing, Speculation, Trinity
2016
April 2016
22
Visions
Silhouettes of the bomb
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Bomb design, Declassification, Graphic design, H-bomb, Speculation
February 2016
26
Visions
Historical thoughts on Michael Frayn's Copenhagen
Tags: 1940s, Germany, Manhattan Project, Speculation
2015
December 2015
11
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The curious death of Oppenheimer's mistress
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, Espionage, Historiography, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos, Manhattan (show), Manhattan Project, Speculation
November 2015
13
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When did the Allies know there wasn't a German bomb?
Tags: 1940s, Alsos, Espionage, Germany, Leo Szilard, Leslie Groves, Manhattan (show), Manhattan Project, Speculation
October 2015
 9
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Neglected Niigata
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Historiography, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Speculation
August 2015
 3
Meditations
Were there alternatives to the atomic bombings?
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Historiography, Manhattan Project, Musings, Nagasaki, Speculation
March 2015
27
News and Notes | Redactions
H-bomb headaches
Tags: 1950s, 1970s, 2010s, Atomic Energy Commission, Declassification, Department of Energy, Howard Morland, Hydrogen bomb, New York Times, Speculation, The Progressive case
 6
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To demonstrate, or not to demonstrate?
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Metallurgical Laboratory, Nagasaki, Speculation, Trinity
January 2015
 7
Meditations
When bad history meets bad journalism
Tags: 1940s, Bad ideas, Germany, Speculation
2014
December 2014
15
Visions
The button that isn't
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Bad ideas, Bomb design, Hiroshima, Speculation
November 2014
14
Visions
Visualizing fissile materials
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, Bomb design, Books, Chuck Hansen, Fat Man, Graphic design, John Coster-Mullen, Little Boy, plutonium, Speculation
September 2014
22
Meditations
Tokyo vs. Hiroshima
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Firebombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Speculation, Tokyo
August 2014
22
Meditations
The luck of Kokura
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Japan, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Speculation, Tinian
May 2014
16
Meditations
Szilard's chain reaction: visionary or crank?
Tags: Leo Szilard, Nuclear power, Speculation
March 2014
 7
Visions
Death dust, 1941
Tags: 1940s, Censorship, Graphic design, Leaks, Nuclear power, Radiation, Science fiction, Speculation, Vannevar Bush
2013
October 2013
11
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Heisenberg's Dresden story: A wartime atomic mystery
Tags: 1940s, 1960s, Espionage, Germany, Leaks, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Speculation
September 2013
20
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The worst of the Manhattan Project leaks
Tags: 1940s, Espionage, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leaks, Leslie Groves, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Speculation
13
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What did the Nazis know about the Manhattan Project?
Tags: 1940s, Espionage, FBI, Germany, Hiroshima, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Speculation
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
15
Meditations | Redactions
Death of a patent clerk
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Espionage, FBI, FOIA, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Speculation
 1
Redactions | Visions
Hanford doggerel
Tags: 1940s, Hanford, Manhattan Project, Speculation
2012
June 2012
27
Redactions
Bethe on SUNSHINE and Fallout (1954)
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Bomb design, Declassification, H-bomb, Nuclear fallout, Nuclear testing, Speculation
20Hans Bethe's Los Alamos ID badge
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Bethe argues against the MIKE test (1952)
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb, Leaks, Speculation
May 2012
11
Visions
Visualizing the Stockpile
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, Graphic design, Speculation, Stockpile
 2
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The Censored Chapter (1946)
Tags: 1940s, Atomic Energy Commission, Bomb design, Censorship, Fat Man, Manhattan Project, Smyth Report, Speculation
April 2012
25
Redactions
The Third Shot and Beyond (1945)
Tags: 1940s, Hiroshima, Historiography, Manhattan Project, Speculation
March 2012
 2
Visions
Illustrating the Manhattan Project (1945)
Tags: 1940s, Graphic design, Manhattan Project, Smyth Report, Speculation, Trinity, William L. Laurence
February 2012
17
Visions
Nuclear Bombs, Soviet Style (1958)
Tags: 1950s, Bomb design, Civil Defense, H-bomb, Soviet Union, Speculation
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