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The first portable digital nuclear weapons effects computer
The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part II
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Nuke Beat
Gregory Corso's 1958 poem, "BOMB"
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What if NUKEMAP had been made in the 1960s?
The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part I
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"The battlefield is everywhere"
The wild nuclear maps of "Wild" William Bunge (1988)
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Exponential stockpiles
How the meaning of the Cold War nuclear arms race both is and isn't revealed in the data
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How to get sick and die in the post-apocalypse
Modeling health conditions in Oregon Road '83
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The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"
The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor
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"Where black is the color, where none is the number"
Bob Dylan's dark, gnomic, and adaptable post-apocalyptic masterpiece
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"When I go to my grave, my head will be high"
Bob Dylan's little-known protest song against Civil Defense from 1962
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Emergences and emergencies
On the limits of our ability to recognize and act upon dangerous situations before it's too late
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Five years, that's all we've got!
Humming along to David Bowie while the Climate Clock counts down
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Not a drop to drink
The plausible eco-horror of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife"
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