Martin is Professor Emeritus of EE at Stanford University.
Stanford, CA
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My last post was about Daniel Ellsberg. I did an interview with him just before he died in 2023 that you should read if you haven’t already. thebulletin.org/2023/06/dani…
My late friend Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers and The Post fame, has a riveting 29-minute short about nuclear war. Acting on it would be a fitting tribute to the man who risked spending the rest of his life in jail to save humanity. anordinaryinsanity.com/scree…
Scott Peters (D-CA-50) just had an OpEd about a bill I’ve been working on with him to prevent the president from ordering a nuclear first strike solely on his say-so. This bill is passable and currently has 21 cosponsors. More to come. thehill.com/opinion/national…
The ACM just released a 6-minute video on the importance of Federal funding for research. As I note, my work cost the government a tiny fraction of the trillions of dollars it protects every day. vimeo.com/1137714985
Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is a must see movie. My post detailing a number of post-Cold War nuclear near misses shows how relevant it is. nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/20…
No one wants a civilization-destroying nuclear war, but as in 1962’s Cuban missile crisis, both sides may find themselves caught in an escalating spiral that ends with threats becoming grim reality. bneeditor.substack.com/p/are…
Echoing the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto to prevent a nuclear war, I and 33 other computer scientists issued a call to world leaders to “keep a human in the loop” and not allow Autonomous Weapons Systems to act on their own. potsdamcall.dgdg.blog/
A NYT column mistakenly & dangerously says, “If we are unlucky … then the struggles in Ukraine and the Middle East will be retroactively assigned to histories of World War III.” If we are unlucky, there are unlikely to be any histories of World War III. nytimes.com/2025/07/12/opini…
HOW A NUCLEAR ATTACK ON THE U.S. MIGHT UNFOLD, STEP BY STEP is from the highly respected Federation of American Scientists. Time to wake up! washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
“Nuclear Roulette” in The Atlantic is excellent. I’ll admit to liking the conclusion: “Most of all, we forget the rule articulated by the mathematician and cryptologist Martin Hellman: that the only way to survive Russian roulette is to stop playing.” theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Following my last post, you can read more in the Iran section of our book which we’ve made freely available as a PDF. ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/pub…
A good WaPo article on the 1953 CIA Iran coup that overthrew a democratically elected government and installed a police state under the Shah. For why we did that, see my next post. washingtonpost.com/history/2…
Per my last post, Dick Garwin signed the following call for “rethinking national security” along with former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and others: ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/rns…
When Dick Garwin died yesterday, the world lost a true genius and a great man. And I lost a friend and supporter. See my next post as well. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/scien…
My last post was to a podcast which mentions that you can download a free PDF of the book my wife and I wrote on “creating true love at home & peace on the planet” (its subtitle). Here’s the link: ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/pub…
Software Engineering Daily has a podcast interview with me about cryptography, nuclear weapons, climate change, & more. It also explains how my wife and I reclaimed the true love that we felt when we met, but lost in the mess of life. softwareengineeringdaily.com…
If we fear something enough, we tend to bring it about. Worse, the article notes, “[Taiwan’s declaring the PRC] a ‘foreign hostile force’ … appeared partly aimed at Taiwanese voters … to recall opposition lawmakers who dominate the legislature.” washingtonpost.com/world/202…
Christian Zionists believe that Israel must expand its borders to bring about the Second Coming of Christ. They are a more powerful political force than most people realize. nytimes.com/2025/03/08/world…
(Continuation of previous posts:) As evidence, note that if Crimea and the Donbass had not been part of Ukraine in 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko would have defeated Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential election. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_U…
