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Nuclear war
"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war
Nov 14
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Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 7
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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
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Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
Sep 26
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Understanding nuclear weapons"
Techno-political nuclear graphic design in the 21st century
Sep 19
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Alex Wellerstein
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Nuclear families
The imagery of the "family" in fallout shelter pamphlets, 1959-1961
Apr 11
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"The battlefield is everywhere"
The wild nuclear maps of "Wild" William Bunge (1988)
Dec 28, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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Exponential stockpiles
How the meaning of the Cold War nuclear arms race both is and isn't revealed in the data
Dec 19, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
Sep 11, 2024
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The perfect horror of Chesley Bonestell's nuked New York
Gritty realism in the artwork for a 1950 article on "Hiroshima, U.S.A."
Aug 21, 2024
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