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• A Nuclear History Blog
• About me
• NUKEMAP roadmap
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• NUKEMAP
• News and Notes
• footnotes
• New book: The Most Awful Responsibility
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• mermaids
• 1940s
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• Manhattan Project fissile material inventories
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• Coster-Mullen
• this post
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• Archives
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• Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
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• like the ones I wrote about previously
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• can put “brackets” around the possibilities of truth
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• Joint DOE/DoD Topical Classification Guide for Nuclear Assembly Systems
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• this
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• 2000s
• 2010s
• Bad ideas
• Bomb design
• Graphic design
• Hydrogen bomb
• Sandia National Laboratories
• footnotes
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• About the blog
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• Resources for Teachers, Students, and Researchers
• Announcing DOOMSDAY MACHINES
• Henry Stimson didn’t go to Kyoto on his honeymoon
• Deconstructing “The Doomsday Machine” – Part 1: The Question of Memory
• Oppenheimer: Vacated but not Vindicated
• Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 2)
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• Visions
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• Articles
• 1960s
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• Accidents
• Atomic Energy Commission
• Business and industry
• Civil Defense
• Counterfactuals
• David E. Lilienthal
• Department of Energy
• Edward Teller
• Espionage
• FBI
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• Franklin D. Roosevelt
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• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Japan
• John Coster-Mullen
• Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
• Klaus Fuchs
• Leaks
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• Livermore
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• Tinian
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• Vannevar Bush
• William L. Laurence

• NUKEMAP
• Protomaps
• Ploughshares
• Future of Life Institute
• Tweet
• https://alexwellerstein.com/writing/books/the-most-awful-responsibility/
• strange URL
• D8719897
• SF Materials Shipped or Received from 12/31/1946 thru 05/01/1947
• this cover letter
• https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/131522
• Doomsday Machines
• Nuclear Knowledges group
• this presentation given to NASA
• Unclassified Illustration of a Staged Weapon
• Nuclear Matters Handbook 2020
• https://amzn.to/3Mv7EjA
• Howard Morland
• Cox Committee’s report
• my book
• http://doomsdaymachines.net/
• Utah Teapot
• Sandia National Laboratories and Engineering Sciences Overview
• Modeling and Simulation at Sandia: An Overview
• 1523 General Capability Overview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEB3LJ5psk
• a Los Alamos presentation on computer modeling
• Large-Scale Inverse Capabilities in Sierra Mechanics
• Joint venture
• The Non-Intrusive Model Testing of Delicate and Critical Structures
• an in-house AWRE publication (
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• @wellerstein
• https://alexwellerstein.com/writing/books/restricted-data/
• https://amzn.to/4pRq5k8
• https://doomsdaymachines.net
• Oregon Road '83
• Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (2021)
• Recent posts from DOOMSDAY MACHINES
• The spoils of nuclear war
• A strange, unloved apocalypse
• Bomber arithmetic
• "To build a shelter was to admit to the kind of age we lived in..."
• Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
• "It isn’t a happy picture, is it?"
• It came from the deep
• Burning up the world
• "Strange even to the men who used them"
• A long look at a QUICK STRIKE

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