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1980s

Critical mastery
The sublime art of nuclear posters
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Trinity goes to Hollywood
Which movie did the first atomic bomb test best?
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"The battlefield is everywhere"
The wild nuclear maps of "Wild" William Bunge (1988)
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"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs
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Pantex employee photos, 1980s
Team photographs at a nuclear weapons factory offer a glimpse into the mundanity and materiality of the bomb
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Why Oregon? Why 1983? Why a game? Why anything?
On the motivations behind the Oregon Road '83 game project
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Strange games
Even if you can "win" some nuclear video games, maybe it's still good advice "not to play"
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The Big Board
How does one visualize the scope of a full-scale nuclear war?
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The fate of cities
Building a video game model for the impact of a large-scale nuclear war on American cities
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