Since 2011, Alex Wellerstein has written about the nuclear history and present at Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog, with over 250 entries, many of which are extensively documented and footnoted. His blog has been invoked a model for non-traditional academic scholarship, and individual entries been cited by many peer-reviewed academic publications.
What follows is a sampling of representative or important posts from the blog. See the blog archives for a more complete listing.
“What if the Trinity test had failed?”
“What journalists should know about the atomic bombings”
“The President and the Bomb,” an ongoing series on presidential nuclear use authority (parts 1, 2, 3, 4)
“Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later”
“Global Hiroshima: Notes from a bullet train”
“A brief history of the nuclear triad”
“Mapping the US war plan for 1956”
“When did the Allies know there wasn’t a German bomb?”
“What remains of the Manhattan Project”
“What did Bohr do at Los Alamos?”
“Oppenheimer, Unredacted: Part I – Finding the Lost Transcripts”
“The riddle of Julius Rosenberg”
“General Groves’ secret history”
“Who smeared Richard Feynman?”
“How many people worked on the Manhattan Project?”
“Would the atomic bomb have been used against Germany?”
“Heisenberg’s Dresden story: A wartime atomic mystery”
“The worst of the Manhattan Project leaks”
“What did the Nazis know about the Manhattan Project?”
“The Spy, the Human Computer, and the H-bomb”
“The price of the Manhattan Project”
“Narratives of Manhattan Project secrecy”
“Soviet drawings of an American bomb”
“How to make an atomic thunderstorm”
“Rare Photos of the Soviet Bomb Project”
“The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements”
“Do We Want Another Manhattan Project?”
“Assassination as Non-Proliferation: Historical and Sociological Thoughts”
“The Uncensored Franck Report”
