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The Way Nukes Work (*Sort of)
Often when I am interviewed, I am asked variations on the question: “when and why did you start getting interested in nuclear weapons?” My sense is always that the interviewer is hoping for a good “personal connection” to the topic, which m...
Une apocalypse française
The idea of post-apocalypse does not seem universal or disconnected from history. Different cultures, at different times, have embraced the idea, particularly as a literary genre, and the different apocalypses contemplated all feel very of...
The secret to avoiding dirty bombs
The concept of a “dirty bomb” has two distinct and different technical meanings in the nuclear literature: a weapon that uses conventional explosive (like TNT) to distribute a radioactive contaminant, or a nuclear weapon that derives a sign...
Doomsday Puppers
If you’re wandering around a ruined post-apocalyptic landscape, who do you want at your side? You have a few options:
- Nobody, you are truly the Last Person on Earth: A depressing state of affairs, once you get bored of running around t...
Running on empty
Oregon Road ‘83 is a video game (in progress) about, among other things, driving around the western United States after a full-scale nuclear war in 1983. To drive a car1 in 1983 means having access to gasoline/petrol. Consequently, “fuel” i...
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Historian, author, programmer, tenured professor. I'm best known as a historian of nuclear weapons, but I also have a broad interest in the history of science and technology.
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