Maps

How I destroyed the world

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "PLAN A" (2017)

Mar 12 • Alex Wellerstein

"It is obvious that the immediate destruction of the complete list of 66 cities would have an even more devastating effect on Russia"

The earliest postwar American planning for waging a full-scale nuclear war from 1945

Mar 6 • Alex Wellerstein

Bananas for BRAVO

An early attempt to visualize the broader implications of thermonuclear war

Feb 6 • Alex Wellerstein

The first portable digital nuclear weapons effects computer

The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part II

Mar 28, 2025 • Alex Wellerstein

What if NUKEMAP had been made in the 1960s?

The Weapons Effects Display System (WEDS), Part I

Jan 17, 2025 • Alex Wellerstein

"The battlefield is everywhere"

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

Dec 28, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

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