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Sep 4, 2024 | blog.nuclearsecrecy.com | Alex Wellerstein

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit last night, and one particular slide jumped out at me: It’s a little graphic advertising the different kinds of modeling software that are part of something called the SIERRA framework, as part of a pretty standard “overview” presentation on computer modeling at Sandia that was given at a meeting in Luxembourg.1Did you catch the part that made me stop and audibly say, “uhhhhh“?

Jul 12, 2024 | blog.nuclearsecrecy.com | 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’ve been busy with has finally launched: Doomsday Machines, a new blog dedicated to exploring the post-apocalyptic imagination from several different perspectives.

Jul 24, 2023 | blog.nuclearsecrecy.com | 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 for the atomic bomb, thanks to the unprecedented and extraordinary efforts by the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, to protect it. I have written at length on this, and why I have come to think that the issue of Kyoto is actually the key to understanding quite a lot about Truman and the bomb, both prior to and after its use.

Jun 16, 2023 | blog.nuclearsecrecy.com | Alex Wellerstein

Dec 21, 2022 | blog.nuclearsecrecy.com | Alex Wellerstein