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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. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 14 Mar 2018
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      My great-great uncle Leo's 1914 photo while in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI. As a Warsaw Jew, he fled in WWII, but his wife and child were swallowed by the maw of the Ghetto, despite his continued efforts to get them out.pic.twitter.com/NDMF9iTSq4

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    2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 14 Mar 2018
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      His flight was exhausting: he fled first on foot, with nothing but the suit he was wearing. He headed first to Vilnius, then Moscow, then Kobe, then Shanghai, then Johannesburg, then Lisbon, then London, and finally New York City, to live with his sister (my great-grandmother).

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    3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 14 Mar 2018
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      In Warsaw, he had owned five movie theaters and was married to the heiress of a banking fortune. In New York, he flipped hot dogs at a Nedick's. Easy come, easy go.

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 14 Mar 2018
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      I'm spending Spring Break making interviews with my great-aunt, getting down the family history. Here is her father's (my great-grandfather's) Butter and Egg store, in Port Chester, New York (he is second from left).pic.twitter.com/rupfoi3UW8

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          In the mid-1930s they upgraded the store and enlarged it, and put an apartment on top of it. The photos are kind of amazing — lots of detail. Lots of things other than just butter and eggs!pic.twitter.com/BY8Ct2mDF4

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          But in 1937, my great-grandfather suddenly died. His nephew opened up a competitor store across the street, and drove my great-grandmother out of business. After the store was gone, my grandfather, aged 17, became the household's breadwinner, working in a bolt and nut factory.pic.twitter.com/qAxSgrHewq

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        1. Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer (⧖)  🏳️‍🌈‏ @NuclearAnthro 16 Mar 2018
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          How very cool!

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