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Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
"The bomb, Dimitri, the hydrogen bomb."
Jul 16
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Alex Wellerstein
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"When civilization gets civilized again, I’ll re-join"
The jazzy paranoia of "Panic in Year Zero!" (1962)
Jul 10
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Alex Wellerstein
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13
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The spoils of nuclear war
A surreal-yet-serious study of post-nuclear economics from 1965
Jun 11
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Alex Wellerstein
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11
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Bomber arithmetic
A revealing memo from 1957 about the pitfalls of Air Force nuclear planning methodology
May 29
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Alex Wellerstein
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"To build a shelter was to admit to the kind of age we lived in..."
The moral dilemmas explored by The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" (1961)
May 21
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Alex Wellerstein
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Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s
May 15
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Alex Wellerstein
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"It isn’t a happy picture, is it?"
A grim briefing on the consequences of the US nuclear war plan from June 1956
May 8
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Alex Wellerstein
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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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"Civil defense should include spiritual civil defense"
The role of religious organizations in preparing for and recovering from nuclear war, 1951-1956
Apr 4
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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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"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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