Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Alex Wellerstein
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In my last show guest-hosting for Bill, I talk with nuclear historian @wellerstein.bsky.social about Truman’s struggle to control the atomic bomb. He never considered it a military weapon - a far cry from those now pushing to build more bombs and to use them. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Podcast Episode · The Bill Press Pod · June 9 · 33m
Did I mistakenly check an option that says, "please assume I don't know what I'm doing, and can't read?" I get annoyed by all of the AI offers for "help" anyway but the tone really seemed to suggest that I might want to be careful with all of those pages, like I didn't know what I was in for.
I opened a PDF on my non-usual computer, which opened it in Adobe Reader (which I have switched from on my main computer). The first thing it did was to offer up a warning that the document I had opened was long, and maybe I ought to have its AI summarize it for me. I mean, really.
