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"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay"
Oct 16
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Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
Sep 26
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Alex Wellerstein
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Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
Sep 12
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
Jun 13
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Alex Wellerstein
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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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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The Big Board
How does one visualize the scope of a full-scale nuclear war?
Jul 25, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Dr. Strangelove's War Room
Could claustrophobic design be a strategic asset?
Jul 16, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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