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“Mars is signaling a dark star”
A vision of "The End of the World" from the beginning of the 20th century
Nov 28
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Alex Wellerstein
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Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
Nov 7
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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
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Alex Wellerstein
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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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Irradiating the planet
Los Alamos scientists calculate the limits of radioactivity, 1947-1949
Sep 5
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Alex Wellerstein
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The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
Jun 13
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Alex Wellerstein
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Civil Defense and Preppers
A brief history of Preppers, part 1
Apr 4
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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 meme-ification of the "Demon Core"
The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor
Nov 20, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"When I go to my grave, my head will be high"
Bob Dylan's little-known protest song against Civil Defense from 1962
Nov 1, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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"Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs
Sep 18, 2024
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Alex Wellerstein
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