1980s

Christmas at Ground Zero

Weird Al Yankovic's post-apocalyptic carol (1986)

Dec 25 • Alex Wellerstein

"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"

Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war

Nov 14 • Alex Wellerstein

Critical mastery

The sublime art of nuclear posters

Sep 12 • Alex Wellerstein

Trinity goes to Hollywood

Which movie did the first atomic bomb test best?

Jul 16 • Alex Wellerstein

"The battlefield is everywhere"

The wild nuclear maps of "Wild" William Bunge (1988)

Dec 28, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"

The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs

Sep 18, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

Pantex employee photos, 1980s

Team photographs at a nuclear weapons factory offer a glimpse into the mundanity and materiality of the bomb

Aug 13, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

Why Oregon? Why 1983? Why a game? Why anything?

On the motivations behind the Oregon Road '83 game project

Aug 9, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

Even if you can "win" some nuclear video games, maybe it's still good advice "not to play"

Aug 6, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

How does one visualize the scope of a full-scale nuclear war?

Jul 25, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

The fate of cities

Building a video game model for the impact of a large-scale nuclear war on American cities

Jul 19, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

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