Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America’s dark history with nuclear weapons. Nol… Read More
Calder Walton, Harvard Kennedy School
“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheim… Read More
Sixty-two newly declassified videos have just been released by the US government showing footage of atmospheric nuclear tests from the first half of the 20th century. The videos, never befor… Read More
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The detonation of the first nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is seared into our collective memory, and the worl… Read More
A consortium of American and British science institutions, led by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is working on a way to use antineutrinos to remotely monitor nuclear reac… Read More
Russia just declassified footage of the moments main up to the Tsar Bomba blast — the world’s major nuclear-bomb explosion.The blast was equal to 50 megato… Read More
Beyond wild allegations, what’s clearly true about Trump and Russia is disturbingWith reports that the Russian government may have dirt that they are using to blackmail Donald Trump se… Read More
Human error nearly results in the accidental detonation of a nuclear warhead in Command and Control. On September 18, 1980, a maintenance crew working on the Titan-II missile, at Little Rock… Read More