Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Here's a fun history quiz: Which President is this op-ed describing? Bonus question: how many COULD it describe? No cheating now 🧐… https://t.co/WKBPwFqsvg"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 7 Sep 2018
  
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  Correct answers are: 1. Reagan, 2. Basically all post-WWII administrations and maybe earlier ones as well (but definitely post-WWII ones).
  
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1. Will Saetren‏ @WillSaetren 7 Sep 2018
  
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  1: Reagan 2: All of them
  
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1. SRH‏ @BlackSheep0ne 7 Sep 2018
  
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  That's Nixon. But it COULD be at least 3 in my lifetime: Nixon, Reagan, this idjit drumpf.
  
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1. M. Kei‏ @kujakupoet 7 Sep 2018
  
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  Woodrow Wilson. ~12
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1. Will Stancil‏ @whstancil 7 Sep 2018
  
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  Reagan?
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1. ‏ @nacreousnereid 7 Sep 2018
  
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  "Most of his recent predecessors suffered from the same malady [of paranoia]" is an interesting clue here.
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1. Noah Brown‏ @Noahjamesbrown 7 Sep 2018
  
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  My guess is Reagan
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1. (((Herid Fel)))‏ @heridfan 7 Sep 2018
  
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  Nixon?
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1. 1,000s of Cat Pictures (eventually)‏ @jeffreygrove 7 Sep 2018
  
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  Has to be LBJ. That said, it could easily be everyone from Truman onward, except maybe - *maybe* - Obama, who ran a relatively leakless WH.
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1. ((KevFromTex))‏ @sturgidcyclist 7 Sep 2018
  
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  oBaMA!1
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1. Alexis Turner‏ @surliertexan 7 Sep 2018
  
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  I cheated.
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1. NotTheFakeNate‏ @NotTheFakeSkate 7 Sep 2018
  
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  1) Carter 2) All... seriously ALL... even Washington.
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1. Joshua House‏ @wanderingyankee 7 Sep 2018
  
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  John Adams
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