Garrett M. Graff

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I think it’s the evening of the 10th!

I’ve been listening to @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s new season of “Long Shadow” and the ways social media has messed up society are infinite. It’s not as if these things weren’t present before, it’s just that social media exacerbated and turbocharged it.

Video New book uses oral history to tell story of the atomic bomb ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz speaks with author Garrett Graff about his new book on the atomic bomb during WWII ahead of the event’s 80th anniversary.

ABC News’ “This Week” looks back at the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings and interviews me about my new oral history and the importance of remembering first-hand accounts: abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

This quote is about Laura Loomer, and that's a really odd way to describe her ascent, which was about racist stunts not foreign policy.

The real story here is how bizarre it is that a far right conspiracy theorist can sink the appointment of someone who is fully qualified to teach West Point cadets

My guess is the AI bubble popping will be similar to the dot com bubble popping at the turn of the century. There’s a real technological advancement, it will have real long-term impact on the world, but a lot of the money now is hype, FOMO, and irrational exuberance.

But I guess we’ll see.

Yay! Thanks so much — and keep me posted on your own work!

Schumer caving on the budget will probably be seen as the biggest legislative mistake of this administration but that crypto bill is gaining fast and probably ends up being an early exhibit in explaining how we lost a republic

If you read one thing today, read Mr. Graff’s chapter with writings from German scientists and scholars in the 1930s. History matters and the parallels to today should not be ignored.

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From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

Old enough to remember how, 35 years ago, Dersh was a very big deal and, though a known camera hog, was a respected advocate whose opinion was much sought after. It's hard to believe this pathetic spectacle is the same guy.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
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Great read on early Nazi years & crumbling of democracy. Nothing’s surprising abt institutions caving once authoritarians gain substantial power. Everything depends on keeping fascists far from power in the first place. If we get our country back, worth thinking abt how to guard against next Trump.

hell yes yet another atomic bomb book for me ☢️

Graff quoting Heisenberg:

“Now I made the sad discovery that men of weak or pathological character can inject their twisted political passions even into scientific life.”

Who does that make you think of today?

#Trump

#Poilievre

Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

Two years before he hypothesized nuclear chain reactions, seven before he left for the U.S., fourteen before the Trinity test. Talk about chain reactions.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff discusses his new book about the atomic bomb Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

I had the pleasure to speak with Scott Simon for @npr.org Weekend Edition about my new oral history of the atomic bomb, THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY. Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/08/02/n...

Pick up the book itself, THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY, wherever books are sold Tuesday: amzn.to/4oidOoQ

Signed/inscribed copies here: www.phoenixbooks.biz/devil-reache...

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We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

Even in death, the CPB can’t bring itself to name the political party that killed it.

Two Books on the Bomb and the Men Who Built It Garrett Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s “The Hiroshima Men.”

Wall Street Journal review of @vermontgmg.bsky.social's new book that's out on Aug. 5. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

This, to be clear, is a bad thing.

Goodhart's Law says that when a metric becomes a goal, it ceases to be a useful measurement. Now that the person who holds the BLS job needs the jobs number to look a certain way, the data are basically useless as a measure of the economy.

This is Banana Republic stuff.

* Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data 🤡

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Headed down to sign them right now!