Doomsday Machines
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
About
Archive
Newsletters
The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
19 hrs ago
•
Alex Wellerstein
20
Share this post
The Occasion Instant, 1961
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
6
The Trigger Effect
James Burke's vision of a suddenly un-connected world
Sep 6
•
Alex Wellerstein
20
Share this post
The Trigger Effect
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
13
Cinéma verité, cinéma mort
How guerrilla filmmaking and the French New Wave gave birth to the modern zombie apocalypse film with Romero's Night of the the Living Dead
Sep 3
•
Billy Middleton
12
Share this post
Cinéma verité, cinéma mort
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
Famished barbarians
The very British fears of Sam Youd's The Death of Grass
Aug 27
•
Alex Wellerstein
16
Share this post
Famished barbarians
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
24
How much time will our civilization survive?
A conversation with historian Nasser Zakariya on "doomsday statistics" and other forms of scientific catastrophism
Aug 23
•
Alex Wellerstein
7
Share this post
How much time will our civilization survive?
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
6
Latest
Top
Discussions
The perfect horror of Chesley Bonestell's nuked New York
Gritty realism in the artwork for a 1950 article on "Hiroshima, U.S.A."
Aug 21
•
Alex Wellerstein
27
Share this post
The perfect horror of Chesley Bonestell's nuked New York
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
13
Pantex employee photos, 1980s
Team photographs at a nuclear weapons factory offer a glimpse into the mundanity and materiality of the bomb
Aug 13
•
Alex Wellerstein
33
Share this post
Pantex employee photos, 1980s
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
10
Why Oregon? Why 1983? Why a game? Why anything?
On the motivations behind the Oregon Road '83 game project
Aug 9
•
Alex Wellerstein
28
Share this post
Why Oregon? Why 1983? Why a game? Why anything?
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
2
Strange games
Even if you can "win" some nuclear video games, maybe it's still good advice "not to play"
Aug 6
•
Alex Wellerstein
23
Share this post
Strange games
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
20
Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. after a Nuclear Attack, 1976
The surprising secret to surviving a nuclear war is... to not be near the bombs when they go off
Aug 1
•
Alex Wellerstein
25
Share this post
Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. after a Nuclear Attack, 1976
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
21
Lord Byron's "Darkness"
One of the earliest works of post-apocalyptic fiction in English, from the "year without a summer"
Jul 31
•
Alex Wellerstein
7
Share this post
Lord Byron's "Darkness"
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
4
The Big Board
How does one visualize the scope of a full-scale nuclear war?
Jul 25
•
Alex Wellerstein
15
Share this post
The Big Board
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
6
See all
Doomsday Machines
Post-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.
Subscribe
Doomsday Machines
Subscribe
About
Archive
Sitemap
Share this publication
Doomsday Machines
doomsdaymachines.net
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
Share
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Note
Other
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts