Academic writing

Secrecy and Verification in Nuclear Disarmament,” in Pavel Podvig, ed., Verifying Disarmament in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 2022), 34-50.

The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn’t Know, About Hiroshima,” in Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, eds., The Age of Hiroshima (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020), 34-55.

John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues,” Physics Today, 72, no. 4 (2019): 42-51.

NC3 Decision Making: Individual Versus Group Process,” Nautilus Institute, Special Reports (August 2019).

Manhattan Project,” Encyclopedia for the History of Science (April 2019).

(with Edward Geist), “The Secrets of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb,” Physics Today 70, no. 4 (March 2017), 40-47.

The Epistemology of Civility and the Civility of Epistemology,” Isis 108, no. 1 (March 2017), 140-142.

The Psychological Power of Nuclear Weapons,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 72, no. 5 (2016), 298-303.

(with Hanna Rose Shell), “Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive,” Technology and Culture 56, no. 1 (2015), 204-208.

A Tale of Openness and Secrecy: The Philadelphia Story,” Physics Today 65, no. 5 (2012), 47-53.

Nuclear bomb” and “Nuclear proliferation,” in Encyclopedia of Military Science, ed. G. Kurt Piehler (SAGE Publications, 2013).

States of Eugenics: Institutions and the Practices of Compulsory Sterilization in California,” in Sheila Jasanoff, ed., Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011): 29-58.

“Die geheimen Patente – eine andere Sicht auf die Atombombe,” in Atombilder: Ikongraphien des Atoms in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit des 20. Jahrhundertsts, Jochen Hennig and Charlotte Bigg (Berlin: Wallstein Verlag, 2009): 159-167.

From Classified to Commonplace: The Trajectory of the Hydrogen Bomb ‘Secret,’Endeavour 32, no. 2 (June 2008): 47-52.

Inside the Atomic Patent Office,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 64, no. 2 (May/June 2008): 26-31, 60-61.

Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Intellectual Property, and Technological Control,” Isis 99, no. 1 (March 2008): 57-87. Reprinted in David Kaiser and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, eds., Science and the American Century: Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Medicine (Readings from Isis), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).