It's somewhat heartening to find that the people who made this classification markings guidance document had a sense of humor… pic.twitter.com/llzETkJxuR
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) September 13, 2019
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on: September 13, 2019 at 08:18AM
These declassified NSA security posters are A M A Z I N G. The level of surreal whimsy is… unexpected pic.twitter.com/FaEcy25s1n
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) June 4, 2018
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on: June 03, 2018 at 10:05PM
Chesley Bonestell's imagination of a post-nuclear New York, Collier's Magazine, August 1950. http://pic.twitter.com/lV2iCFMI5s
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) December 4, 2017
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on: December 04, 2017 at 07:47PM
Some of the imagery from a rather grim @BulletinAtomic special issue about Civil Defense from 1953… http://j.mp/2hpL6W6 http://pic.twitter.com/Gqc0wd2FQU
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) September 24, 2017
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on: September 24, 2017 at 08:29PM
A nice AEC table of weapons in the US stockpile in the 1950s — note that Little Boy and Fat Man (Mk-3) bombs still used as late as 1950. http://pic.twitter.com/xCrMXm3QsW
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) January 29, 2017
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on: January 29, 2017 at 05:06PM
Jezebel — Los Alamos unshielded nuclear assembly, 17 kg bare sphere of plutonium. A bomb in very, very slow motion. http://pic.twitter.com/g77imFLe6C
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) May 14, 2015
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on: May 14, 2015 at 10:20AM
Cover of the program from an early German film about Einstein's work — "Der Einstein-Film," 1922. http://j.mp/1vU7liR
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) October 10, 2014
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on: October 10, 2014 at 10:45AM
OMG. The USAF's Nuclear Energy Powered Airplane (NEPA) project (1946-1951) had an impressively cool logo. http://j.mp/1tWPZ3y
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) September 15, 2014
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on: September 14, 2014 at 10:17PM
I REALLY love secret documents with inappropriate fonts! This one is from 1953. http://j.mp/1nGv2Xc
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) September 8, 2014
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on: September 08, 2014 at 03:30PM