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Richard Rhodes

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‘It’s Really First-Class Work’

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

by Richard Rhodes, Alec Nevala-Lee via The Atlantic
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on July 27, 2023

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Energy: A Human History

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Artistic collage fire, cars trains, factories, and air pollution.

Endless Combustion

Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas have permanently remade our world.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on February 6, 2019

Photo of 5 skeletons controlling panels.

Notes from the Cold War Underground

The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.

by Emily Harnett via The Baffler on October 22, 2024

Senator Brien McMahon and J. Robert Oppenheimer. April 26, 1954.

The True Story Behind Oppenheimer’s Atomic Test—And How It Just Might Have Ended The World

It turns out there was an "unlikely" chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.

by Kelsey Piper via Vox on July 19, 2023

Nuclear weapon mushroom cloud

Mythologizing the Bomb

The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.

by E. L. Doctorow via The Nation on August 14, 1995

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