Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

David Holloway, author of Stalin and the Bomb: the Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939-1956, is a professor of History at Stanford University. An expert on the international history of nuclear weapons, Dr. Holloway traces the development of the Soviet Union’s nuclear capabilities and policy throughout the Cold War, also offering some remarks on the current state of nuclear weapons internationally.

Related Profiles

Dr. Ruth Patrick

Dr. Ruth Patrick was an American botanist and limnologist who studied the effects of pollution in water ways.

Robert “Bo” Jacobs

Japan

Robert “Bo” Jacobs is an American historian of nuclear technologies and radiation technopolitics.

Alexander Klementiev

Hanford, WA

Alexander Klementiev was born in Moscow in 1942 and grew up in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. As a student, he attended the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he studied radio physics and earned his Ph.

Masao Tomonaga

Japan

Dr. Masao Tomonaga is the honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital and a hibakusha, an atomic bomb survivor.