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Jamie Holmes (born April 8, 1980) is an American author. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Slate, among many other publications. Holmes has written two books. The first, Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, was published by Penguin Random House (Crown) in 2015 and explores the psychology of uncertainty. He is also the author of 12 Seconds of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon, about the creation of the proximity fuse, which was published on August 4, 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.