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Forgetting the bomb
Can nuclear weapons be un-invented?
Mar 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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The clouds of Hiroshima
A look at what few photographs we have of the mushroom and smoke clouds from the first atomic bombing
Mar 21
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Alex Wellerstein
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How I destroyed the world
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "PLAN A" (2017)
Mar 12
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Alex Wellerstein
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"It is obvious that the immediate destruction of the complete list of 66 cities would have an even more devastating effect on Russia"
The earliest postwar American planning for waging a full-scale nuclear war from 1945
Mar 6
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Alex Wellerstein
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Cutting the head off the Soviet chicken
"By Dawn's Early Light" (1990): a contrived, late-Cold War, made-for-TV nuclear thriller
Feb 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Launching missiles is your job."
The sublime banality of Frederick Wiseman's "Missile" (1988)
Feb 20
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Alex Wellerstein
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Hitting the jackpot
William Gibson's disturbingly plausible 21st-century slow disaster
Feb 13
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bananas for BRAVO
An early attempt to visualize the broader implications of thermonuclear war
Feb 6
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Take me to your shelter, leader!"
Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!
Jan 29
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Alex Wellerstein
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Playing at the End of the World
An interview with historian and game designer Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop role playing games in the Cold War
Jan 22
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Alex Wellerstein
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You too can survive a nuclear war — if you have a flying car
The essential contradictions of Dean Ing’s Survivalist novel “Pulling Through” (1983)
Jan 13
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Zero time was speeding toward me like a car you cannot dodge"
A gripping first-hand account of a nuclear test from 1957
Jan 1
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Alex Wellerstein
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