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Alex Wellerstein
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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.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer (⧖)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @NuclearAnthro May 13
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      Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer (⧖)  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted Alex Wellerstein

      A “potential proliferator” for sure. I know who I’m going to for design help when I activate my top secret codenamed plan: PROJECT IMPROVISED NUCLEAR DEVICE! #PhDLifehttps://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1128071698601791490 …

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      Alex WellersteinVerified account @wellerstein
      Replying to @NarangVipin @ArmsControlWonk
      I have a folder of about 90 "bomb diagrams" I've scanned in over the years, ranging from 1945 through the present. Does that make me a proliferator? Asking for a friend. pic.twitter.com/U9M7qHeryb
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    2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 13
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      Replying to @NuclearAnthro

      Here's one I think you'll find especially enjoyable... from the radical feminist newspaper "Majority Report," 1978. A nice blend of the humorous and the technical... (This sucker was hard to track down!)pic.twitter.com/JqtRWJXECc

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    3. Robert Dougherty‏ @Skipp_ToMyLou May 13
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      Replying to @wellerstein @nyrath @NuclearAnthro

      Now I want to know more about why a radical feminist newspaper was printing a design for The Bomb... was that a thing for a while, culminating in the publication of the Teller-Ulam design?

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    4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 14
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      Replying to @Skipp_ToMyLou @nyrath @NuclearAnthro

      It was a thing in the 1970s, spurred by John McPhee's "The Curve of Binding Energy" and Ted Taylor's claims that anyone could do it if they tried. Ultimately they were displays of power/knowledge mixed with arguments in favor of fissile material safeguards.

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    5. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 14
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      Replying to @wellerstein @Skipp_ToMyLou and

      You can see Morland's Teller-Ulam work as pushed by a similar "draw the bomb" drive though his politics were very different (his was not a safeguards argument, it was an anti-secrecy argument).

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    6. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 14
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      Replying to @wellerstein @Skipp_ToMyLou and

      I have an entire chapter in my forthcoming book on dedicated to the "draw the bomb" activism of the 1970s, as an aside. It's a pretty fascinating story... "anyone can design an atomic bomb" has been a very popular trope since at least 1946.

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    7. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 14
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      Replying to @wellerstein @Skipp_ToMyLou and

      "Anyone" is most potent when it includes groups that are not typically thought of as "bomb designers," like children and college students. You can see the coverage of John Coster-Mullen as a variant on this them ("trucker draws the bomb").

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    8. Robert Dougherty‏ @Skipp_ToMyLou May 14
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      Replying to @wellerstein @nyrath @NuclearAnthro

      You actually answered a question I had asked on Reddit about the potential legality of Coster-Mullen's book! I remember you mentioned a study by... DoE? that had undergrads w/ only basic nuclear physics knowledge drawing bombs & they seemed to have been mostly successful.

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein May 14
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      Replying to @Skipp_ToMyLou @nyrath @NuclearAnthro

      Grad students, not undergrads, but yeah — the Nth Country Experiment, 1967.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/01/04/weekly-document-8-reexamining-the-the-nth-country-experiment-1967/ …

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