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March 22, 2026

Hiroshima mushroom clouds

By Andres Kabel
22March

My interest is the “peaceful atom,” not nuclear weapons, but I’m eternally grateful for the deep nuke-related research of Alex Wellerstein. His recent newsletter, “The clouds of Hiroshima,” hammers home the obscene destruction wrought by the Americans to end World War II. In the newsletter, he dissects thirteen photos, from high up or (horifically) from the ground. . .

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March 3, 2026

Greetings after so long

By Andres Kabel
03March

I haven’t sent anything out about the history of nuclear power since mid-December. In the previous eight-and-a-half years, I consistently wrote a small piece every week or so, forty pieces a year, 342 in total. I had no grand aim. I just needed an outlet in which to jot down those minor aspects of nuclear power’s story (and not the entire tale, just the first fifteen years) that were. . .

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