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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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Christmas at Ground Zero
Weird Al Yankovic's post-apocalyptic carol (1986)
Dec 25, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Will the survivors envy the dead?
Tracing the origins of a popular trope about nuclear war
Dec 19, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
Dec 12, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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"The Most Awful Responsibility"
My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released on December 9!
Dec 4, 2025
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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, 2025
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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, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 7, 2025
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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, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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