Tom Zeller

Dec 25, 2024 | undark.org | Michael Schulson |Peter SMith |Tom Zeller

The project was so secret, most members of Congress didn’t even know it existed. In 1942, when an elite team of physicists set out to produce an atomic bomb, military leaders took elaborate steps to conceal their activities from the American public and lawmakers. There were good reasons, of course, to keep a wartime weapons development project under wraps.

Nov 18, 2024 | undark.org | Tom Zeller

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Oct 9, 2023 | undark.org | Michael Schulson |Tom Zeller

The child falls sick shortly after Christmas. At first he has a cough and a runny nose. Soon his breathing grows labored. On the afternoon of Dec. 30, 1966, he arrives at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. A clinical report describes him as a “well-developed, well-nourished Negro boy in acute respiratory distress.” He is 14 months old. That evening, another child arrives at the same hospital: a previously healthy Black boy, aged 16 months, running a fever and struggling to breathe.

Jul 4, 2023 | undark.org | Tom Zeller