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"Strange even to the men who used them"
"Atomic bombs" before the discovery of fission
Apr 17
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Alex Wellerstein
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A long look at a QUICK STRIKE
The grim realities of a faux nuclear war plan from 1958
Apr 9
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Alex Wellerstein
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Forgetting the bomb
Can nuclear weapons be un-invented?
Mar 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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How I destroyed the world
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "PLAN A" (2017)
Mar 12
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Alex Wellerstein
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"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
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Alex Wellerstein
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Cutting the head off the Soviet chicken
"By Dawn's Early Light" (1990): a contrived, late-Cold War, made-for-TV nuclear thriller
Feb 27
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Launching missiles is your job."
The sublime banality of Frederick Wiseman's "Missile" (1988)
Feb 20
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bananas for BRAVO
An early attempt to visualize the broader implications of thermonuclear war
Feb 6
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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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"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war
Nov 14, 2025
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 7, 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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