Alex Wellerstein    I’ve been working on upgrades to the NUKEMAP for several years now, but I actually would like to get them implemented this year. I figured that one...

Alex Wellerstein    This is just a brief post to make sure I have announced on here formally that my new book from HarperCollins is now on sale The Most Awful...

Alex Wellerstein    Understanding how much fissile material enriched uranium and separated plutonium was produced, and at what time, by the Manhattan Project is one of...

Alex Wellerstein    I realized I haven’t updated things here for a long while, and that it would be worth consolidating a few overdue news updates. First and foremost,...

Alex Wellerstein    I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one...

Alex Wellerstein    I have been busy this summer (and spring, and the winter before that& and the fall before that& and the summer before that&), but one of the things I...

Alex Wellerstein    The city of Kyoto was the only great city of Japan to be spared serious bombing during World War II, despite being among the top targets preferred...

Alex Wellerstein    When I learned several months ago that Daniel Ellsberg had pancreatic cancer, and was opting not to treat it, I was not quite sure what I ought to do...

Alex Wellerstein    One of the sleeper news items of last week was that the Department of Energy officially vacated the Atomic Energy Commission decision that stripped J...

Alex Wellerstein    This is second post of a two part series on this topic. Click here for part one. Did the Japanese offer to surrender before the atomic bombs were...