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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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    Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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    Kind of odd how many people apparently just opened up their browser and typed in the direct NUKEMAP URL... usually when I have this much traffic at once it comes from a linked site.pic.twitter.com/HmEeUcK3We

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      2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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        And it's mostly people on phones?pic.twitter.com/AnICeYbgyE

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      3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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        So weirdpic.twitter.com/dDndKtCUky

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      4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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        So I think the answer is that this was linked to from some kind of Google phone app or something and so the referrer is stripped out. Which would make sense. Mystery resolved!

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      2. Cheryl Rofer‏ @CherylRofer 22 Jan 2018
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        Russian bots?

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      3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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        I mean, but why? Nobody can see the stats but me. (They all are hits from within the US, for whatever that is and isn't worth.)

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      4. Cheryl Rofer‏ @CherylRofer 22 Jan 2018
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        Failed DDOS?

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      5. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 22 Jan 2018
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        Nah, they're actually nuking stuff.

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      6. Cheryl Rofer‏ @CherylRofer 22 Jan 2018
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        BTW, here's another Los Alamosan gone, although not a Manhattan Project person. Well-known in town. http://www.ladailypost.com/content/epifanio-j-trujillo-sr-eppie-oct-27-1923-%E2%80%93-jan-18-2018 …

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      1. Regime Change Ghoul‏ @AramShabanian 22 Jan 2018
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        I may or may not have the nukemap URL as an autofill option that I regularly select

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      1. Lukas Simonis‏ @lsimonis 22 Jan 2018
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        Probably just some botnet poking around. What kind of http requests in the access log?

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      1. Eric Lawrence  🎻‏ @ericlaw 22 Jan 2018
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        If your URL isn't HTTPS, then (by default) the Referer is blank for all visits from a HTTPS site.

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      1. JH‏ @metal7654 22 Jan 2018
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        I used this to demonstrate to my wife what a 100MT bomb would do if it were ever dropped in the city 35 miles to the north of us.

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      1. Tom Keidel‏ @tk299 22 Jan 2018
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        Very clever way to get traffic to your site 👏🏻

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      1. Pls retweet ma witticisms‏ @Cancun771 23 Jan 2018
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        Can you really tell the difference between people that type in the URL and people who start to type a fragment of the website title and the URL is auto-completed by the browser?

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      1. Harry Tucker‏ @HarryTucker 24 Jan 2018
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        Renewed interest in your work probably coincides with the announced re-release of the UK movie Threads, one of the scariest nuclear holocaust movies made.

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