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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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"To build a shelter was to admit to the kind of age we lived in..."
The moral dilemmas explored by The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" (1961)
May 21
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Alex Wellerstein
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Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s
May 15
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Alex Wellerstein
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"It isn’t a happy picture, is it?"
A grim briefing on the consequences of the US nuclear war plan from June 1956
May 8
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Alex Wellerstein
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It came from the deep
The bad movie that made Godzilla good
May 1
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Alex Wellerstein
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