Mark Wolverton is a science writer who has written widely on the history of the Cold War for a variety of national publications, including American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Smithsonian Air & Space, and American History. He is the author of A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer and The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. In 2016-2017, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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“Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth…The feat was regarded by some of its leading participants as the greatest scientific experiment of all time.” ―Walter Sullivan, the New York Times, March 19, 1959 ... SEE MORE