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October 2024

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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Alex Wellerstein
16
Five years, that's all we've got!
Humming along to David Bowie while the Climate Clock counts down
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Alex Wellerstein
9
Not a drop to drink
The plausible eco-horror of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife"
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Alex Wellerstein
9
Two generations of nuclear hopes and nuclear fears
A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats
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Alex Wellerstein
4

September 2024

Dreaming the undreamable
The narrative value of literal nuclear nightmares
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Alex Wellerstein
11
"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs
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Alex Wellerstein
14
The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
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Alex Wellerstein
8
The Trigger Effect
James Burke's vision of a suddenly un-connected world
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Alex Wellerstein
14
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
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Billy Middleton
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