Alex Wellerstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Wellerstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Wellerstein |
| SIGNATURE | WELLERSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado
Journal Article A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado Get access A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado, https://www.coloradonuclearatlas.org. Edited by Sarah Kanouse and Shiloh Krupar. Reviewed May 2023. Alex Wellerstein Alex Wellerstein Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 397–398, https:/…
The Kyoto Misconception
The Age of Hiroshima
The Many Places of Cold War Science
Technologist-Historian
NukeMap is an interactive data-visualization website that allows visitors to detonate virtual nuclear bombs on global targets of their choice.1 It is the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and technology who launched the site in early 2012. In NukeMap, the visitor selects a type of nuclear device, defining its size, or chooses from a menu of predefined options that model the effects that an actual historical bomb would have on a…
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race
Patenting the Bomb
During the course of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government secretly attempted to acquire a monopoly on the patent rights for inventions used in the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The use of patents as a system of control, while common for more mundane technologies, would seem at first glance to conflict with the regimes of secrecy that have traditionally been associated with nuclear weapons. In explaining the origins and o…
Patenting the Bomb
During the course of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government secretly attempted to acquire a monopoly on the patent rights for inventions used in the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The use of patents as a system of control, while common for more mundane technologies, would seem at first glance to conflict with the regimes of secrecy that have traditionally been associated with nuclear weapons. In explaining the origins and o…
Patenting the Bomb
During the course of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government secretly attempted to acquire a monopoly on the patent rights for inventions used in the production of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The use of patents as a system of control, while common for more mundane technologies, would seem at first glance to conflict with the regimes of secrecy that have traditionally been associated with nuclear weapons. In explaining the origins and o…
Contingencies of the early nuclear arms race
Technologist-Historian
NukeMap is an interactive data-visualization website that allows visitors to detonate virtual nuclear bombs on global targets of their choice.1 It is the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and technology who launched the site in early 2012. In NukeMap, the visitor selects a type of nuclear device, defining its size, or chooses from a menu of predefined options that model the effects that an actual historical bomb would have on a…
The Many Places of Cold War Science
The Kyoto Misconception
The Age of Hiroshima
A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado
Journal Article A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado Get access A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado, https://www.coloradonuclearatlas.org. Edited by Sarah Kanouse and Shiloh Krupar. Reviewed May 2023. Alex Wellerstein Alex Wellerstein Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 397–398, https:/…
Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 work)