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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
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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Not a drop to drink
The plausible eco-horror of Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife"
Oct 11
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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September 2024
Dreaming the undreamable
The narrative value of literal nuclear nightmares
Sep 27
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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