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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
September 2016
30
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If he had lived to make the decision, would Roosevelt have dropped the atomic bomb?
2014
June 2014
27
Meditations
How important was Albert Einstein's work or personal intervention to the making of the atomic bomb? Not as important as most people think.
March 2014
7
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A rare find: science fiction giant John Campbell wrote about dirty bombs and U-235 in the summer of 1941.
2013
July 2013
5
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An unusual view on the possibility of scientific secrecy from physicist who was inside the Manhattan Project but not making the bomb.
January 2013
18
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The colorful physicist's postwar concerns about the teaching of nuclear physics, and an H-bomb doodle.
2012
July 2012
25
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The top WWII scientific administrator's plan for controlling BW warfare was in reality a trial balloon for a plan to control the bomb.
16
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A rare first-hand account of the first atomic bomb test, from the President of Harvard University.
May 2012
25
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Did the President of Harvard draw an atomic bomb in 1943?
March 2012
21
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The degree to which the UK and Canada should be equal partners with the US in the atomic bomb project was a controversial subject in 1942.
5
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Vannevar Bush had a problem: French physicists had filed for a patent on the nuclear reactor. A novel form of secrecy was his answer.
2011
December 2011
5
Meditations
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