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Manhattan Project

The explosive musical score to Oppenheimer

By Reba A. Wissner | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Bulletin reviews ‘Oppenheimer’

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer security badge photo at Los Alamos

“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Oppie—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer movie scene

An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Overview: nuclear scientists as assassination targets

By William Tobey | Nuclear Weapons

In their own words: Trinity at 75

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

Manhattan Project oral history: Peter Lax

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Manhattan Project oral history: Jean Bacher

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Manhattan Project oral history: Mary Lou Curtis

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