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1960s

"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay"
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Alex Wellerstein
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Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
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Alex Wellerstein
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Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
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Alex Wellerstein
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Nuclear families
The imagery of the "family" in fallout shelter pamphlets, 1959-1961
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Alex Wellerstein
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Civil Defense and Preppers
A brief history of Preppers, part 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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?
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Alex Wellerstein
Dr. Strangelove's War Room
Could claustrophobic design be a strategic asset?
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Alex Wellerstein
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