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How to fight a nuclear war in 1950
When most people imagine “nuclear war,” they imagine the push-button “wargasm” that only became possible for the United States to do by the mid-to-late 1950s, and some time later than that by the Soviet Union. From the mid-1940s through the...
Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a special issue this month (July 2026) dedicated to Doomsday and the Movies. There are great articles about many specific movies. They asked me to come up with a list of 13 essential films for under...
"When civilization gets civilized again, I’ll re-join"
Panic in Year Zero! (1962) was an early and today fairly obscure entry into the genre of post-apocalyptic films. Directed by and starring the Welsh actor Ray Milland, it was a low-budget the post-apocalyptic road trip following the activiti...
Hiroshima from below
The first views of Hiroshima that were seen in the United States were from the air: the view from B-29 bombers of the mushroom cloud, and surveying the damage as a whole. This is the view of the person dropping the bomb, not the person bein...
Survival is a drag
60 Seconds! is a video game about spending some quality family time in a fallout shelter after a nuclear detonation, developed by a Polish video game studio (Robot Gentlemen) and released in 2015 (and a remastered version was released in 20...
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Historian, author, programmer, tenured professor. I'm best known as a historian of nuclear weapons, but I also have a broad interest in the history of science and technology.
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