J. Robert Oppenheimer

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. came with censorship and obfuscation about the effects of the radiation on those who were exposed.

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.

The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control.

Only a certain kind of person, both foolish and resolute, would choose to study a subject so extensive, yet so restrictive, as the secrets of nuclear weapons.

What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.