Post-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.
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The great equalizer?
“Survivalist” fiction has typically been expressed in a very “masculine” way. By capital-S “Survivalist,” I mean fiction that is not just a “survival” narrative, but embodies or reflects a version of “Survivalism,” an ideological preoccupat...
The speed of war
The horror potential of nuclear weapons is not just their enhanced capacity for destruction, but the speed at which they can inflict it.
The first atomic bombs did with a single plane, in a single instant, what would have taken hundreds o...
“Do you know what to do in a radiation emergency?”
In the fall of 2022, while living in northern New Jersey, I began to see signs. I saw them on buses, in windows, and on the train that goes to New York City: signs telling me that “SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH,” and asking quest...
The Way Nukes Work (*Sort of)
Often when I am interviewed, I am asked variations on the question: “when and why did you start getting interested in nuclear weapons?” My sense is always that the interviewer is hoping for a good “personal connection” to the topic, which m...
Une apocalypse française
The idea of post-apocalypse does not seem universal or disconnected from history. Different cultures, at different times, have embraced the idea, particularly as a literary genre, and the different apocalypses contemplated all feel very of...
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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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