Alex Wellerstein

Only a certain kind of person, both foolish and resolute, would choose to study a subject so extensive, yet so restrictive, as the secrets of nuclear weapons.

The Cold War may be over, but an arms race continues, even as safeguards once in place have fallen away.

The U.S. government’s failure to recognize nuclear Downwinders in New Mexico is part of a broader failure to reckon with the legacies of the Manhattan Project.

The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?

The duck-and-cover school exercises from the nuclear era are being invoked as a parallel to active shooter drills.

What to know before equating "fire and fury" to the "rain of ruin."

Reconsidering the journalistic ethics of a New York Times reporter who chronicled the Manhattan Project from the inside.