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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.
by
Alex Wellerstein
via
Physics Today
on
December 1, 2019
The Atomic Bomb, Exile and a Test of Brotherly Bonds: Robert & Frank Oppenheimer
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.
by
KC Cole
via
Knowable Magazine
on
March 5, 2024
The True Story Behind Oppenheimer’s Atomic Test—And How It Just Might Have Ended The World
It turns out there was an "unlikely" chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.
by
Kelsey Piper
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Vox
on
July 19, 2023
The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table
From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy.
by
Neima Jahromi
via
The New Yorker
on
December 27, 2019
'Atomic Bill' and the Birth of the Bomb
Reconsidering the journalistic ethics of a New York Times reporter who chronicled the Manhattan Project from the inside.
by
Mark Wolverton
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UnDark
on
August 9, 2017
Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
by
E. L. Doctorow
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The Nation
on
August 14, 1995
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What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War
Japanese survivors recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and warn of future risks.
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Retro Report
on
April 10, 2025
How Do We Know the Motorman Is Not Insane?
Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.
by
James Robins
via
The Dreadnought
on
December 20, 2023
Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb
On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
by
Alex Wellerstein
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 30, 2023
Did We Really Need to Drop the Bomb?
American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.
by
Paul Ham
via
American Heritage
on
August 6, 2023
"Cry Baby Scientist": What Oppenheimer the Film Gets Wrong about Oppenheimer the Man
The so-called "father of the bomb" helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk.
by
Haydn Belfield
via
Vox
on
July 22, 2023
Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist was Oppenheimer?
A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes.
by
Adrian Cho
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David C. Cassidy
via
Science
on
July 17, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer Cleared of “Black Mark” Against His Name After 68 Years
Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.
by
Jennifer Ouellette
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Ars Technica
on
December 25, 2022
Forgetting the Apocalypse
Why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The Guardian
on
May 12, 2022
The History of the Family Bomb Shelter
Throughout history, the family bomb shelter has reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties, and cynicism of the nuclear age.
by
Thomas Bishop
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Zócalo Public Square
on
April 18, 2022
Why Scientists Become Spies
Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.
by
Rivka Galchen
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The New Yorker
on
January 5, 2022
Bombs and the Bikini Atoll
The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.
by
Lina Zeldovich
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Steve Brown
via
JSTOR Daily
on
October 13, 2020
More UFOs Than Ever Before
What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
by
Rich Cohen
via
The Paris Review
on
August 26, 2019
TV and the Bomb
During the Cold War, nuclear weapons were a frequent plot point on television shows. Fearful depictions in the 1950's became more darkly comedic in the 1960s.
by
Reba A. Wissner
via
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
on
August 13, 2018
Neutron Sunday
In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America what nuclear war looks like. We were never the same again.
by
Donald Fagen
via
Slate
on
October 14, 2016
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