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Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb
On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
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Alex Wellerstein
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 30, 2023
Counting the Dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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August 4, 2020
What Journalists Should Know About the Atomic Bombings
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings, we're going to see a lot of journalistic takes on them — many of them totally wrong.
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Alex Wellerstein
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
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June 9, 2020
John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues
In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.
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Alex Wellerstein
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Physics Today
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December 1, 2019
A 'Purely Military' Target? Truman’s Changing Language about Hiroshima
A set of speech drafts suggests that Truman may not have fully understood the implications of dropping an atomic bomb on the city.
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Alex Wellerstein
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
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January 19, 2018
The Curious Death of Oppenheimer’s Mistress
Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?
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Alex Wellerstein
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
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December 11, 2015
Why Nagasaki?
Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.
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Alex Wellerstein
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Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
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August 9, 2013
