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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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Civil Defense and Preppers
A brief history of Preppers, part 1
Apr 4
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Alex Wellerstein
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March 2025
The first portable digital nuclear weapons effects computer
The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part II
Mar 28
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Alex Wellerstein
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The first portable digital nuclear weapons effects computer
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January 2025
Nuke Beat
Gregory Corso's 1958 poem, "BOMB"
Jan 24
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Alex Wellerstein
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What if NUKEMAP had been made in the 1960s?
The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part I
Jan 17
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Alex Wellerstein
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What if NUKEMAP had been made in the 1960s?
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December 2024
"The battlefield is everywhere"
The wild nuclear maps of "Wild" William Bunge (1988)
Dec 28, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Exponential stockpiles
How the meaning of the Cold War nuclear arms race both is and isn't revealed in the data
Dec 19, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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How to get sick and die in the post-apocalypse
Modeling health conditions in Oregon Road '83
Dec 7, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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How to get sick and die in the post-apocalypse
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November 2024
The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"
The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor
Nov 20, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"
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"Where black is the color, where none is the number"
Bob Dylan's dark, gnomic, and adaptable post-apocalyptic masterpiece
Nov 8, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Where black is the color, where none is the number"
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"When I go to my grave, my head will be high"
Bob Dylan's little-known protest song against Civil Defense from 1962
Nov 1, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"When I go to my grave, my head will be high"
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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
Oct 25, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Five years, that's all we've got!
Humming along to David Bowie while the Climate Clock counts down
Oct 17, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Five years, that's all we've got!
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Not a drop to drink
The plausible eco-horror of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife"
Oct 11, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
Oct 4, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Two generations of nuclear hopes and nuclear fears
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September 2024
Dreaming the undreamable
The narrative value of literal nuclear nightmares
Sep 27, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs
Sep 18, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
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The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
Sep 11, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Occasion Instant, 1961
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The Trigger Effect
James Burke's vision of a suddenly un-connected world
Sep 6, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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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, 2024
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Billy Middleton
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Cinéma verité, cinéma mort
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August 2024
Famished barbarians
The very British fears of Sam Youd's The Death of Grass
Aug 27, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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How much time will our civilization survive?
A conversation with historian Nasser Zakariya on "doomsday statistics" and other forms of scientific catastrophism
Aug 23, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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How much time will our civilization survive?
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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, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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The perfect horror of Chesley Bonestell's nuked New York
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Pantex employee photos, 1980s
Team photographs at a nuclear weapons factory offer a glimpse into the mundanity and materiality of the bomb
Aug 13, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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