Category Archives: Cold War History
Bringing Oppenheimer Back To Life: An Interview With Richard Rhodes
Originally published here. Way back when I was in college, someone gave me a book that they thought I should read. “You’ve been working with plutonium, and you have an interest in nuclear weapons. You really ought to read this book.” The book was The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. He was [...]
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The Doomsday Gap
Originally published here. Last week marked the sixty-fourth anniversary of one of the most controversial achievements of the human race: the birth of the atomic bomb. Regardless of your personal feelings about the effect of nuclear weaponry on the outcome of the Second World War, it is impossible to argue otherwise: once the nuclear genie [...]
‘They have no idea what a nuclear bomb is.’ – Americans’ Changing Perception of Nuclear Weapons