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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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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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