Alex Wellerstein


Alex Wellerstein 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