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"Take me to your shelter, leader!"
Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!
 • Alex Wellerstein
Playing at the End of the World
An interview with historian and game designer Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop role playing games in the Cold War
 • Alex Wellerstein
You too can survive a nuclear war — if you have a flying car
The essential contradictions of Dean Ing’s Survivalist novel “Pulling Through” (1983)
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Zero time was speeding toward me like a car you cannot dodge"
A gripping first-hand account of a nuclear test from 1957
 • Alex Wellerstein
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
 • Alex Wellerstein
“Mars is signaling a dark star”
A vision of "The End of the World" from the beginning of the 20th century
 • Alex Wellerstein
Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
 • Alex Wellerstein
"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible."
The rabid, apocalyptic Beat poetry that is "Mission with LeMay"
 • Alex Wellerstein
Inventing the Doomsday Machine
It is not a thing a sane man would do
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Understanding nuclear weapons"
Techno-political nuclear graphic design in the 21st century
 • Alex Wellerstein
Irradiating the planet
Los Alamos scientists calculate the limits of radioactivity, 1947-1949
 • Alex Wellerstein
The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
 • Alex Wellerstein
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