Ross Andersen
@andersen
staff writer @theatlantic // writing a book for @randomhouse // rep’d by @elysecheney // [email protected]
🚨 Beyond thrilled to announce that I am, at long last, writing a book.🚨

Join Jeffrey Goldberg for a discussion about our August issue on nuclear tensions and the future of national security, with @andersen, @RadioFreeTom, and @missy_ryan. Tune in to this subscriber-only event tomorrow, July 15, at 10 a.m. ET. theatlantic.com/national-secur…
Tomorrow: The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security, an exclusive behind-the-scenes exploration of @TheAtlantic August issue with EIC Jeffrey Goldberg and writers Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan. July 15 at 10 a.m. ET. theatlantic.com/national-secur…
"So long as anyone has them, there is always a risk of proliferation cascades . . . . The desire for these weapons is contagious, and could spread well beyond nervous national-security types in Seoul and Tokyo." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"For me, it was seeing the burned clothes of very small children in the museum and thinking about what happened to them and also what happened to 20,000 other children. The enormity of that suffering is hard to even hold in your mind," @andersen on his visit to Hiroshima. ⤵️…
My latest on important new The Atlantic story on a visit to Hiroshima--and yet others may now join "nuclear club," such as Japan and S. Korea. @andersen @griffwitte oppenheimer2023.substack.com/p/scary-report…
The tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have turned Japan into a longtime proponent of nuclear disarmament. But that national identity is starting to shift, @andersen told @IsabelFattal in The Atlantic Daily. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
For @TheAtlantic's August issue, I wrote about the last time the U.S. government said a group of immigrants posed a threat to national security, and what one man did in response: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
The decades-long effort to keep nuclear weapons from spreading across the planet may be about to collapse. @andersen on the new arms race: theatln.tc/K6gsOzuh
People feel horrible about what happened here, Hiroshima Gov Yuzaki told @andersen. But they don’t seem to understand that humanity is now risking something even more terrible. They think that Hiroshima is the past, Yuzaki said. It’s not. It’s the present.
As a writer you sometimes have to sit back and marvel — with a bit of jealousy, I’ll admit — at someone else’s work. Y’all simply must read @andersen’s dive into the RoK and Japan’s nuclear flirtations as the hibakusha generation enters its twilight. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
An extraordinary and unsettling story, beautifully written by the great @andersen theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
As American power recedes, South Korea and even Japan may pursue nuclear weapons. @andersen reports on the arms race unfolding in East Asia: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
As a writer you sometimes have to sit back and marvel — with a bit of jealousy, I’ll admit — at someone else’s work. Y’all simply must read @andersen’s dive into the RoK and Japan’s nuclear flirtations as the hibakusha generation enters its twilight. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
The first images from the $1 billion Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released today. Last year, @andersen reported that the telescope will almost certainly see some spy satellites. How to survey the cosmos without giving away national-security secrets: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
(left a smoking crater where the subscribe button was) x.com/DKThomp/status…
On moving to Substack
Tonight, join @RobGMacfarlane to discuss IS A RIVER ALIVE? - a revelatory book that transforms how we imagine rivers—and life itself - w/ @andersen - 7PM @ P&P bit.ly/4kns65e
🚨🚨🚨@CaityWeaver in The Atlantic! Caity Weaver in The Atlantic! theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
The standard model of cosmology is going down and I am here for it. Good profile of Adam Riess from @andersen. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Friday, join @zoeschlanger to discuss THE LIGHT EATERS - a deep immersion into the drama of green life & the complexity of this wild world that challenges our understanding of agency, consciousness, & intelligence - w/ @andersen - 7PM @ P&P @TheWharfDC - bit.ly/4dzuqnb
Friday, join @craigmod to discuss THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS - blending memoir and travel writing at their best, transporting readers to an otherwise inaccessible Japan - w/ @andersen - 7PM @ P&P @TheWharfDC - bit.ly/430qS8r
He’s now delivered two legendary press conferences after a playoff loss. a champ in every sense of the word
Giannis’ full response to what happened with John Haliburton x.com/ESPNNBA/status…