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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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"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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Will the survivors envy the dead?
Tracing the origins of a popular trope about nuclear war
Dec 19, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
Dec 12, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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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, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
Sep 26, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
Sep 12, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
Jun 13, 2025
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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, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Civil Defense and Preppers
A brief history of Preppers, part 1
Apr 4, 2025
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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, 2025
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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, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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