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The scarred women of Hiroshima
The complicated political and cultural memory of the "Hiroshima Maidens"
Aug 6
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bomb shadows of the future
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950)
Aug 4
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Alex Wellerstein
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July 2026
Signs of the end times
What would be the opposite of the Doomsday Clock?
Jul 31
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Alex Wellerstein
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How to fight a nuclear war in 1950
OFFTACKLE, the first US war plan after the loss of the nuclear monopoly
Jul 23
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Alex Wellerstein
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Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
"The bomb, Dimitri, the hydrogen bomb."
Jul 16
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Alex Wellerstein
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"When civilization gets civilized again, I’ll re-join"
The jazzy paranoia of "Panic in Year Zero!" (1962)
Jul 10
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Alex Wellerstein
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Hiroshima from below
Experiences of atomic bombing victims through the medium of photography
Jul 2
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Alex Wellerstein
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June 2026
Survival is a drag
Simulating shelter tedium in the video game "60 Seconds!"
Jun 26
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Alex Wellerstein
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Haggling with God
Abraham and Lot debate the destruction of Sodom
Jun 18
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Alex Wellerstein
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The spoils of nuclear war
A surreal-yet-serious study of post-nuclear economics from 1965
Jun 11
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Alex Wellerstein
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A strange, unloved apocalypse
Philip K. Dick's "Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb" (1965)
Jun 4
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Alex Wellerstein
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May 2026
Bomber arithmetic
A revealing memo from 1957 about the pitfalls of Air Force nuclear planning methodology
May 29
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Alex Wellerstein
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