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Tiara on a Test Site: Miss Atomic Bomb
She is not the chick from The Killers’ new hit single One wouldn’t intuitively put U.S. nuclear tests and pin-up girls together, but the two share a little-known history in the barren deserts of...
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Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones DO Exist*
Iran’s shady nuclear program launched a spectacular melodrama that has taken over our TVs, laptops, iPads, and Youtubes. Since the media spotlight is stuck on Israel’s response towards Iran (let us...
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Gojira vs. Godzilla: Two nuclear narratives in one monster
A decade after the Hiroshima bombings, the effects of nuclear disaster re-emerged in Japan’s popular consciousness as Gojira (ゴジラ), a mythical beast awakened by a hydrogen bomb test. Gojira is one of...
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Unpacking the Meaning of “Twitter Diplomacy”
Nuclear diplomacy through social media isn’t just “point and click.” The arms control world recently met social media and is now furiously in love. But to harness the power of social media, policy...
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Radio[active]heads: The Champions of “Atoms for Peace”
I am speaking today in a language that is new – a language which I who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of...
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Bringing the conversation online isn't enough. If you're using the same jargon, you're Tweeting to yourself.
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Don’t let societal verification turn you into a Borg
Illustration: Adriel Luis for Bombshelltoe This piece was originally published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on August 12, 2013. Most Trekkies consider the Borg one of the most sinister...
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From The Wolverine to Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – in Hollywood, nukes are a target hit
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The origin story of Marvel’s “Big Hero 6" and their encounter with one bad nuclear villain.
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