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1970s

Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
"The bomb, Dimitri, the hydrogen bomb."
 • Alex Wellerstein
Burning up the world
The "nightmare dream" of a runaway nuclear reaction, 1903–1979
 • Alex Wellerstein
Forgetting the bomb
Can nuclear weapons be un-invented?
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Take me to your shelter, leader!"
Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!
 • Alex Wellerstein
Playing at the End of the World
An interview with historian and game designer Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop role playing games in the Cold War
 • Alex Wellerstein
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
 • Alex Wellerstein
Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
 • Alex Wellerstein
The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
 • Alex Wellerstein
The first portable digital nuclear weapons effects computer
The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part II
 • Alex Wellerstein
Five years, that's all we've got!
Humming along to David Bowie while the Climate Clock counts down
 • Alex Wellerstein
The Trigger Effect
James Burke's vision of a suddenly un-connected world
 • Alex Wellerstein
Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. after a Nuclear Attack, 1976
The surprising secret to surviving a nuclear war is... to not be near the bombs when they go off
 • Alex Wellerstein
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