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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
35
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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
34
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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
43
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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
43
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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
42
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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
45
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April 2026
Burning up the world
The "nightmare dream" of a runaway nuclear reaction, 1903–1979
Apr 24
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Alex Wellerstein
43
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"Strange even to the men who used them"
"Atomic bombs" before the discovery of fission
Apr 17
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Alex Wellerstein
54
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A long look at a QUICK STRIKE
The grim realities of a faux nuclear war plan from 1958
Apr 9
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Alex Wellerstein
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