Manhattan Project

The Iran Deal: A Pathway for North Korea? October 14, 2015

by Manit Shah and Jose Trevino The majority of all nuclear experts and diplomats, as well as aspiring nuclear and policy students, must have their eyes set on North Korea’s…

Review of Benjamin E. Schwartz’s Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism (Overlook Press, 2015) October 14, 2015

by Edward A. Friedman Roadside bombs were devastating to American troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The press has categorized the moment prior to such an explosion as…

Marshall and the Atomic Bomb October 14, 2015

by Dr. Frank A. Settle General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb (Praeger, 2016) provides the first full narrative describing General Marshall’s crucial role in the first decade of…

Rob Goldston: A Scientist on the Cutting Edge of Fusion and Arms Control Research October 14, 2015

Professor Rob Goldston teaches in the areas of nuclear energy and non-proliferation at Princeton University. Rob is a leading researcher in plasma physics and fusion energy. He was…

Not Much Below the Surface? North Korea’s Nuclear Program and the New SLBM October 14, 2015

by Markus Schiller, Robert Schmucker, and James Kim In May 2015, only a month after key figures in the U.S. military publicly acknowledged the possibility that North Korea has perfected…

Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction October 14, 2015

by Steven Starr While it is impossible to precisely predict all the human impacts that would result from a nuclear winter, it is relatively simple to predict those which would…

Who was Willy Higinbotham? May 29, 2015

Editor’s note: The following is a compilation of letters by Dr. William Higinbotham, a nuclear physicist who worked on the first nuclear bomb and served as the first chairman of…

Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Manhattan Project: Questions and Answers February 19, 2015

by B. Cameron Reed I began my professional life by obtaining degrees in physics and entering a conventional academic career in teaching and astronomical research, but I had always been…

The Making of the Manhattan Project Park February 19, 2015

by Cynthia C. Kelly The making of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park took more than five times as long as the making of the atomic bomb itself (1942 to…