Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh

male, 72 years old
Worth Bingham Prize recipient, war correspondent, New York Times, Jewish person, American, author…nuclearweapon
Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in...
Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1967)
scientist, physicist, Throat cancer death, German-American, los alamos national laboratory, World War II…nuclearweapon, nuclear arms race
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the...
Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu

male, 55 years old (Israel)
Nuclear weapons and Israel, convert to Anglicanism, Palestinian state, Jewish state, Israeli Christian, Israeli nuclear development…Israel's nuclear weapons program, nuclear, nuclearweapon
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear...
Wen Ho Lee

Wen Ho Lee

male, 69 years old
black market, American, Clinton administration controversy, taiwanese, University of California, chinese…nuclear arsenal, Nuclear secrecy, nuclearweapon
Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National...
Avner Cohen

Avner Cohen

male
Israel and the Bomb, Deterrence theory, Nuclear weapons and Israel, Israeli nuclear program, University of Maryland, College Park, M.I.T…nuclearweapon, nuclear proliferation
Avner Cohen is writer, historian, and professor, and is well known for his works on nuclear weapons. Cohen received a B.A. in Philosophy from Tel...
James R. Schlesinger

James R. Schlesinger

male, 80 years old
Lutheran, convert to Christianity, Jewish person, F-16, A-10, A-10 Thunderbolt II…nuclearweapon
James Rodney Schlesinger (born February 15, 1929) was United States Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under presidents Richard Nixon and...
Samuel Glasstone

Samuel Glasstone

male, 112 years old
nuclearweapon, outer space, Manhattan Project, technical writer, nuclear reactor, space…The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Effects of nuclear explosions, nuclear testing
Samuel Glasstone authored 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry, rate reactions, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, Mars,...
J. Carson Mark

J. Carson Mark

male, deceased (1997)
nuclearweapon, World War II, mathematician, university of manitoba, University of Toronto alumni, Canadian American
J. Carson Mark (July 6, 1913 - March 2, 1997) was a Canadian-born American mathematician known especially for his work on developing nuclear...

Gernot Zippe

male, 91 years old
University of Virginia, physicist, nuclear proliferation, nuclearweapon, World War II, luftwaffe…nuclear reactor, Nuclear physicist
Gernot Zippe (born 1918, Austria) is an engineer responsible for leading the team which developed the Zippe-type centrifuge, a machine for the...
Ted Taylor

Ted Taylor

male, deceased (2004)
United States Navy, YMCA, Congregationalist, physicist, nuclearweapon, Mexican…nuclear disarmament, Mexican nuclear physicist, nuclear reactors, nuclear weapon design
Theodore Brewster Taylor, was a prominent Mexican-born American physicist and nuclear weapons designer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico, the son...