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

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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...

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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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Haggling with God

I had an interesting conversation recently with Ward Wilson about the historicity of the moral revulsion of destroying cities. Ward brought up the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, a case he has written about before, and how even people in...

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The spoils of nuclear war

One of the things that makes Civil Defense interesting to me, as a historian, is that if one takes it truly seriously — which not all of its advocates do or have done — it involves trying to think very concretely about what would happen dur...

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A strange, unloved apocalypse

There are a lot of books about nuclear apocalypses, ranging from the very “grounded” to the fairly fantastic. But none of them, to my knowledge, are as strange as Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965)....

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