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Personal Essay

A personal tribute to Rod Ewing, the man against a mountain. And my friend.

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Waste, Personal Essay

A Japanese scholar gives her personal view on J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Shiho Nakazawa | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

A timeline of Oppenheimer and his legacy

By Dan Drollette Jr | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Presentation

Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours

By Robert Jay Lifton | Personal Essay, Special Topics

Hiroshima Memories

By Hideko Tamura Friedman | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Personal Essay

Gadget is readied for the Trinity test.

A foul and awesome display

By Kenneth T. Bainbridge | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision

By Rachel Bronson | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law

By Harold P. Green | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Oppenheimer Replies

By J. Robert Oppenheimer | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now

By Daniel M. Kammen | Opinion, Personal Essay

A nuclear weapon test by the US military at Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Credit: US Defense Department image via Wikimedia Commons, licensed with PD-USGov-Military)

What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testing

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow

Some disagree that it is 100 seconds to midnight. These undergrads held a debate

By Nitish Vaidyanathan | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay