Alex Wellerstein

Alex Wellerstein (born 5 September 1981) is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. He is the creator of NUKEMAP.

Background

Wellerstein grew up in Stockton, California. He received a BA in History from University of California, Berkeley in 2002, and a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in 2010. He was once a graduate fellow for the United States Department of Energy, a lecturer at Harvard University, a postdoc at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an Associate Historian at the American Institute of Physics. Since 2014 he has been a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Selected publications

• "Patenting the bomb: Nuclear weapons, intellectual property, and technological control," Isis 99, no. 1 (March 2008): 57-87.
• "Inside the Atomic Patent Office," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 64, no. 2 (May/June 2008): 26-31, 60-61.
• "From Classified to Commonplace: The Trajectory of the Hydrogen Bomb 'Secret'," Endeavour 32, no. 2 (June 2008): 47-52. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.03.002
• "Die geheimen Patente – eine andere Sicht auf die Atombombe," in Atombilder: Ikongraphien des Atoms in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit des 20. Jahrhundertsts, ed. Jochen Hennig and Charlotte Bigg (Berlin: Wallstein Verlag, 2009): 159-167.
• "States of Eugenics: Institutions and the Practices of Compulsory Sterilization in California," in Sheila Jasanoff, ed., Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011): 29-58.
• "A Tale of Openness and Secrecy: The Philadelphia Story," Physics Today 65, no. 5 (May 2012), 47-53. doi:10.1063/PT.3.1560

External links

• "About me". Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
• "The Rush to Patent the Atomic Bomb". Npr.org. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
• "Contributor: Alex Wellerstein". New Yorker. Retrieved 10 October 2017.