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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...
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)....
Bomber arithmetic
In February 1957, Captain John H. Morse, Jr., a former US Navy aviator and a special advisor for the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), wrote a long memo to AEC Commissioner Lewis Strauss about the “arithmetic” of Air Force strategic planni...
"To build a shelter was to admit to the kind of age we lived in..."
The end of the world is a recurrent themes in several episodes of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), but none perhaps are quite as direct about it as “The Shelter,” which aired on September 29, 1961. Its focal point was a family b...
Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
While working on my post about the clergy and Civil Defense, I stumbled across a collection of scanned issues of The Georgia Alert, a publication of the Civil Defense Division of the State of Georgia, USA, from the 1950s, hosted by the Digi...
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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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