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Doomsday Machines

Alex Wellerstein
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Post-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.

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The scarred women of Hiroshima

As part of my work as a Senior Fellow of the The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, I am writing several articles for them, which I am allowed to republish here on Doomsday Machines. You can read the original article here.


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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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