Alex Wellerstein
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Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear technology. He is a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and and a visiting researcher at the Nuclear Knowledges program, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris. His first book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2021), was the first attempt at a comprehensive history of how nuclear weapons ushered in a new period of governmental and scientific secrecy in the USA. His second book, The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age (Harper, 2025) is about the paradoxical attitudes of Harry Truman towards the atomic bomb. His writings on the history of nuclear weapons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and the Washington Post, among other venues, and his online nuclear weapon effects simulator, the NUKEMAP, has been used by over 50 million people globally.
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