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"The Most Awful Responsibility"
My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released on December 9!
17 hrs ago
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Alex Wellerstein
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“Mars is signaling a dark star”
A vision of "The End of the World" from the beginning of the 20th century
Nov 28
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war
Nov 14
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 7
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Alex Wellerstein
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"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay"
Oct 16
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Alex Wellerstein
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Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
Sep 26
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Understanding nuclear weapons"
Techno-political nuclear graphic design in the 21st century
Sep 19
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Alex Wellerstein
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Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
Sep 12
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Alex Wellerstein
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Irradiating the planet
Los Alamos scientists calculate the limits of radioactivity, 1947-1949
Sep 5
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Alex Wellerstein
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Trinity goes to Hollywood
Which movie did the first atomic bomb test best?
Jul 16
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
Jun 13
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Alex Wellerstein
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Nuclear families
The imagery of the "family" in fallout shelter pamphlets, 1959-1961
Apr 11
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Alex Wellerstein
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