Doomsday Machines
Alex WellersteinPost-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.
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"The Most Awful Responsibility"
On December 9, 2025, my newest book will go on sale from HarperCollins: The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age. I thought it would be worth writing up a bit, in my own words, about what t...
“Mars is signaling a dark star”
Who writes about “the end of the world,” and why? Sometimes the motivations (if not the authorship) are fairly clear: in many depictions of the “end of the world,” there are explicit moralizations and arguments, which are always about the p...
"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis’s Einstein’s Monsters (1987) is a collection of five short stories that are, to one degree or another, are meant to be reflective of the nuclear age. Amis clarifies in an author’s note that the title refers to nuclear weapons, “...
Bolt out of the blue
Katheryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, released by Netflix in 2025, is the latest film seeking to spark a public conversation about nuclear weapons. There is much one can say about it, and my limited conversations about it with people in t...
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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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