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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.

by Alex Wellerstein via Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 4, 2020

Person getting a vaccination.

A Coronavirus Vaccine Can’t Come at the Expense of Fighting the Virus Now

Government investment into a cancer vaccine had drawbacks.

by Robin Wolfe Scheffler via Made By History on July 24, 2020

We Remember World War II Wrong

In the middle of the biggest international crisis ever since, it’s time to admit what the war was—and wasn’t.

by Adam Tooze via Foreign Policy on May 7, 2020

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

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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

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.

by Maki Naro, Matthew Francis via The Nib on May 15, 2019

Library card noting a book checked out to Dr. Oppenheimer.

Atomic Bonds

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

by Nadine Zimmerli via Uncommon Sense on May 3, 2018

When Science Was Big

This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?

by David Singerman on October 19, 2017

Why Nagasaki?

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

by Alex Wellerstein via Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog on August 9, 2013

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