Below is a selected list of major press appearances that Alex Wellerstein has made, as an expert on the history of nuclear weapons and on the impact of nuclear detonations. Journalists should feel free to contact him for inquiries.
Segment on nuclear warfare and Russia, Piers Morgan Uncensored (22 September 2022), live television broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8kjoQBhbsM
Tony Dokoupil, “Conflict in Ukraine Triggers Fear of Nuclear Warfare,” CBS Mornings (29 April 2022), television broadcast: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/conflict-nuclear-warfare-ukraine-russia/
“Still Armed, Still Dangerous,” NPR’s On the Media (1 April 2022): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-still-armed-still-dangerous
Brian Walsh, “Thinking Through the Unthinkable,” Vox (20 March 2022): https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22981207/russia-ukraine-nuclear-war-civil-defense
Matthew Gault, “Nuclear War Anxiety is Back. Here’s How to Manage it,” Vice (3 March 2022): https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmke8/nuclear-war-anxiety-is-back-heres-how-to-manage-it
Charlie Warzel, “A 10-Year-Old Nuclear-Blast Simulator Is Popular Again,” The Atlantic’s Galaxy Brain, (3 March 2022): https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62210e0ddc551a0020883980/online-americans-nuke-themselves/
William Broad, “When the Soviets Set Off the Biggest Nuclear Bomb, J.F.K. Didn’t Flinch,” New York Times (30 October 2021), N13.
William Broad, “The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb,” New York Times (10 August 2021), D1.
William Broad, “How a Star Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered,” New York Times (10 August 2021), D1.
Shashank Joshi, “Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information,” The Economist (7 August 2021), 16-19.
Susan D’Agostino, “Alex Wellerstein pulls back the curtain on nuclear secrecy,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (26 April 2021).
Jennifer Ouellette, “That time physicist John Wheeler left classified H-bomb documents on a train,” Ars Technica (30 December 2020).
“The Nuclear Football,” Legal Talk Today (28 October 2020).
William J. Broad, “New Video Shows Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Exploded,” New York Times (25 August 2020).
Geoff Brumfiel, “A Look at the History of the Nagasaki Bombing, 75 Years Later,” NPR’s Weekend Edition (8 August 2020).
“Nuclear Disarmament,” NPR’s All Sides with Ann Fisher (6 August 2020).
Joseph Ditzler, “‘Irresistible weapon’: Historians say American history oversimplifies atomic bombings on Japan,” Stars and Stripes (5 August 2020).
Basit Mahmood, “Will a Nuclear Weapon Ever Be Fired Again?” Newsweek (5 August 2020).
Maria Yamaguchi, “Survivors mark 75th anniversary of U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, which killed 140,000,” CTV News (Canada) (5 August 2020).
Episode 6 (“Nukes”), Connected, Netflix (2 August 2020).
Maria Cramer, “‘Now I Am Become Death’: The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test,” New York Times (15 July 2020), A12.
William J. Broad, “Fourth Spy at Los Alamos Knew A-Bomb’s Inner Secrets,” New York Times (27 January 2020), D1.
John Kryzyzaniak, “Interview with Alex Wellerstein on NUKEMAP VR,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (16 September 2019).
“Atomic Age Declassified,” Smithsonian Channel (June 2019).
“Loose Nukes? You Betcha,” Bill Nye’s “Science Rules!”, Stitcher Media (March 2019).
Max Fisher, “An Unpredictable Trump and a Risk-Prone Kim Mean High Stakes and Mismatched Expectations,” New York Times (23 April 2018).
Clyde Haberman, “This Is Not A Drill: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation,” New York Times Retro Report (13 May 2018).
Daron Taylor, “What should you do if a nuclear weapon is heading your way?” Washington Post (26 January 2018).
“Why are ICBMs so hard to shoot down?” Fareed Zakariya, GPS (CNN) (20 January 2018).
“The ABCs of Nuclear War,” NPR’s Science Friday (29 September 2017).
Sarah Vowell, “The Dangers of an Incurious President,” New York Times (9 August 2017), A19.
Ralph Vartabedian and W.J. Hennigan, “Duck and Cover 2.0: How North Korea is prompting new efforts to prepare for a nuclear attack,” Los Angeles Times (25 July 2017).
Elisabeth Eaves, “NUKEMAP creator Alex Wellerstein puts nuclear risk on the radar,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 73, no. 4 (July 2017).
“Nukes,” NPR’s Radiolab (7 April 2017).
Joshua Brustein, “Congratulations, Your Genius Patent Is Now a Military Secret,” Bloomberg (8 June 2016).
Armin Rosen, “A North Korean hydrogen-bomb test would be a game-changer,” Business Insider (6 January 2016).
Scott Shane, “1950s U.S. Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight,” New York Times (22 December 2015), A10.
“The 27 Best Feeds to Follow in the World of Science,” Wired (18 August 2015).
Mariko Oi, “The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb,” BBC World News (9 August 2015).
Herman Wong, “How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world,” Washington Post (6 August 2015).
Geoff Brumfiel, “Why did the U.S. choose Hiroshima?” NPR’s Morning Edition (6 August 2015).
Michal Meyer, “Telling Secrets,” Distillations (Fall 2015).
Ana Swanson, “What it would look like if the Hiroshima bomb hit your city,” Washington Post Wonkblog (5 August 2015).
Interview with Robert Gast, “Ein Atomkrieg ist noch immer möglich,” Süddeustche Zeitung (24 July 2015).
“Zündung der ersten Atombombe am (16.7.1945),” Westdeutscher Rundfunk’s ZeitZeichen (16 July 2015).
“Destroyer of Worlds,” BBC Radio 4 (11 July 2015).
American Heroes Channel, What History Forgot, “Verge of Destruction” (30 June 2015).
National Geographic Channel, American Genius, Episode 7, “Oppenheimer vs. Heisenberg,” (22 June 2015).
Jefferson Morley, “Getting to Know Alex Wellerstein,” Arms Control Today (May 2015).
John Moritz, “Does Philly author reveal nuclear-bomb secrets?” Philadelphia Inquirer (6 April 2015).
“Buttons Not Buttons,” NPR’s Radiolab (12 December 2014).
William J. Broad, “Dawn of Nuclear Arms, Declassified,” New York Times (9 November 2014), D6.
Shirley Li, “The Future of Plutonium,” The Atlantic (6 November 2014).
William J. Broad, “Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer’s Loyalty,” New York Times (11 October 2014), A16.
NHK Special, “Mach Stem: The Nagasaki Bombing Intensified,” NHK World (Japan) (4 October 2014).
Rob Garfield, “The Manhattan Project,” NPR’s On the Media (11 October 2013).
Rebecca J. Rosen, “The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project,” The Atlantic (20 September 2013).
Mark Thompson, “Nuclear Perspective: What’s the Fallout in Your Neighborhood?” TIME (22 July 2013).
Rebecca J. Rosen, “On Nuclear Weapons as Units of Measurement,” The Atlantic (22 February 2013).
Robert Krulwich, “The End of the World, My Way,” NPR’s Krulwich Wonders (20 December 2012).
Robert Krulwich, “U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers to See if They are Safe to Drink,” NPR’s Krulwich Wonders (19 September 2012).
Robert Krulwich, “Five Men Agree to Stand Directly Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb,” NPR’s Krulwich Wonders (17 July 2012).
Tom Siegfried, “It’s Not Easy, or Wise, to Suppress Nature’s Secrets,” Science News 181, no. 11 (2 June 2012), 2.
Damien Gayle, “Want to know the effect of a nuclear bomb on your home town? There’s an app for that,” Daily Mail (UK) (16 February 2012).
“Manhattan Project Patent,” History Detectives, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)–Lion Television (29 June 2009).
David Kestenbaum, “The Rush to Patent the Atomic Bomb,” NPR’s Morning Edition (28 March 2008).