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The new NUKEMAP is coming 12 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
I’m excited to announce, that after a long development period, that the new NUKEMAP is going to debut on Thursday, July 18th, 2013. There will be an event to launch it, hosted by the James Martin Cent...
Shurcliff on Secrecy 5 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
William A. Shurcliff is one of my favorite Manhattan Project dramatis personae. I’ve written about him before on here, some time back. In a nutshell, Shurcliff was a physicist who worked as a technica...
Castle Bravo revisited 21 Jun 2013 | 09:52 pm
No single nuclear weapons test did more to establish the grim realities of the thermonuclear age than Castle BRAVO. On March 1, 1954, it was the highest yield test in the United States’ highest-yield ...
The Hiroshima-Equivalent: A Modest Proposal 7 Jun 2013 | 07:31 pm
Given that the media community seems to love comparing all manners of energy release to Hiroshima, no matter how inappropriate, I humbly propose a new scientific unit: the Hiroshima-equivalent, abbrev...
Bombers Over Japan 31 May 2013 | 06:07 pm
When I was in high school, I had my first real exposure to strategic bombing through a volume of the Time/Life World War II series titled simply, Bombers Over Japan. The book was written by a Life jou...
Inside K-25 24 May 2013 | 07:13 pm
The K-25 plant at Oak Ridge was the single most expensive part of the Manhattan Project. It was cost about a fourth more than the entire Hanford site. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the building that housed ...
The price of the Manhattan Project 18 May 2013 | 12:44 am
There’s been a little radio silence over here last week; the truth is, I’ve been very absorbed in NUKEMAP-related work. It is going very well; I’ve found some things that I thought were going to be di...
The Hiroshima leaflet 2 May 2013 | 07:33 pm
Last week I went over, in painful detail, the question of whether leaflets had been dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki warning them about bombing, atomic or otherwise. Some of the information was in Jap...
A Day Too Late 26 Apr 2013 | 08:30 pm
Ever since I set up an e-mail alert for the phrase, “Manhattan Project,”1 I’ve been getting an interesting cross-section of discussions on the Internet about the history of the atomic bomb. One of the...
The Problem of Redaction 12 Apr 2013 | 05:17 pm
Redaction is one of those practices we take for granted, but it is actually pretty strange if you think about it. I mean, who would imagine that the state would say, “well, all of this is totally safe...
