Working at Cold War Los Alamos

A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos.

By Alex Wellerstein
December 12, 2025
Alex Wellerstein

Alex Wellerstein is the Director of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology and the author of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States.

 
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