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Wired
September 2005
Jonathon Keats |
The Epic, Tragic, Operatic Inside Story of Doctor Atomic Maverick composer John Adams set off a chain reaction in the opera world with his explosive works on Nixon and the Middle East. Now he's taking on the father of the A-bomb.   |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
John Carey |
The Family That Built The Bomb "109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos," by Jennet Conant, is a vivid account of the U.S. community that developed the atomic bomb. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006 |
Q&A: Richard L. Garwin, Expert on Nuclear Weapons Richard L. Garwin talks about his views on the presumed North Korean nuclear test of 9 October. Four days later the U.S. government detected radiation, and on Monday 16 October it confirmed that a nuclear test had indeed occurred. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2005
Erico Guizzo |
The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark--and it faces an uncertain future. The U.S. Department of Energy has been laboring for years to clean up the radioactive and chemical contamination there. |
Popular Mechanics
June 15, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
10 Geekiest Elements Ever Created in a Lab The periodic table doesn't end at 92 -- not even close. Last week the official tally reached 112 |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
John Carey |
Enrico Fermi: Unleashing The Atom The Italian physicist made the key theoretical leap that led to the atom bomb and nuclear power. A history of Enrico Fermi. |
Wired
April 2000
Bill Joy |
Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. |
Scientific American
December 18, 2006
Graham P. Collins |
Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2016
Derry Jones |
Atomic -- the first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939--49 Jim Baggott, aims to describe the competitive actions of several countries in what became a race involving the UK, Canada, the US, Germany, the USSR, (and even Norway up to June 1940). |
Wired
July 2003
Gregg Easterbrook |
We're All Gonna Die! But it won't be from germ warfare, runaway nanobots, or shifting magnetic poles. A skeptical guide to Doomsday. |
National Defense
June 2009
Erwin & Magnuson |
7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror. |
Popular Mechanics
November 1, 2007
Kate Winick |
During Iran Nuke Controversy, a Look Back at the Manhattan Project The controversy over Iran's nuclear ambitions comes 62 years after the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
M. V. Ramana |
More Missiles Than Megawatts India's nuclear choices have favored warheads over civilian reactors, and those choices are taking their toll. Between its burgeoning economy and a population that is projected to eclipse China's by 2050, India has difficult choices to make regarding its energy future. |
World War II
September 2007 |
Letters From Readers Unlikely Comrades in Arms... The Shot Heard 'Round Shanghai... A Survivor Who Spoke for Many... etc. |
Reason
June 2000 |
Looking Back in Anger The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, by Eileen Welsome |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Using Nukes To Extract Oil: Time Machine 1960 Forty-seven years ago the Atomic Energy Commission's Plowshare Program looked into using nuclear bombs for energy and industrial purposes. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Kieron Murphy |
Frank Oppenheimer, the Man Who Made Science Fun The brother of Robert Oppenheimer marched to the beat of his own drummer. A new biography, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens, by K.C. Cole, tells his story. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Sharon Weinberger |
Best: Never-Used Weapon Systems, From the USSR's Ekranoplan to the Puckle Gun A list of weapons systems that are probably best left in storage. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
William Sweet |
Book: Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies One man's theft of nuclear secrets dispersed atom bomb technologies to North Korea and Libya |
Wired
November 2002
Steven Johnson |
Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb? |
Aviation History
March 2008 |
Letter From Aviation History Paul Tibbets Jr. did not ask to deliver the first atomic bomb to his target, but was merely doing his job. |
National Defense
March 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Poor Intelligence Hampers Precision Weapon Performance Despite the widely publicized success in precision strike operations during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. military lacks the intelligence and sensor capability to assess its targets and battle damage, according to a top Defense Department weapons expert. |
Reason
October 2005
Nick Gillespie |
Artifact: War's Nightmare Landscape This horrifying image shows a young boy scarred by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945. Almost unbelievably, he would not only survive, but live into the 21st century. |
National Defense
October 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Squads Need the Best Tools Available Bomb squads -- both military and civilian -- deserve and need the very best technologies the nation can offer them. |
Fast Company
June 2002
Charles Fishman |
Boomtown, U.S.A. Far from the front lines of combat, there is a place where people do the unlikeliest work imaginable. Here is the story of the men and women of McAlester, Oklahoma, who run the factory that makes virtually every non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal... |
