Mark Wolverton

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Atoms and Ashes: The World’s Six Major Nuclear Accidents and Their Aftershocks

The Apollo Missions Were Driven More by Politics Than Science

How a Wartime Disaster Led to the Invention of Chemotherapy

Apollo 11’s Political Journey to the Moon

Science as a Cold War Propaganda Tool

One of the Vanguard satellites in Florida in 1958. Credit: NASA

The Uneasy Alliance Between Astrophysics and Warfare