Erstellt am: 24. 11. 2014 - 11:47 Uhr

Today's Webtip: Nuclear Secrets

A history blog about nuclear weapons. A very different side of that history.

I think I might belong to the last generation to grow up under the shadow of the mushroom cloud. At least I hope I do.

The fallout of ideas like Mutually Assured Destruction had a massive impact on the culture I grew up with, and found it's way into cultural artifacts like music, literature and even computer and board games. Then the Berlin wall fell and it suddenly seemed like we might just survive.

As a teenager and wannabe physicist I devoured histories on the scientific and political development of the technology, and despite being a pacifist found that one of my heroes had been involved with the Manhattan Project.

And now I am reading it again, but this time from a much different perspective and with resources that hadn't previously been available.

nuclearsecrecy.com

Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog is chock full of interesting articles about the bomb. Written by a historian of science, it is surprising readable. It can even be a bit light hearted. Like the article about an interpretive dance performed and documented during a detonation test. Angels Dance