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"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...
"It isn’t a happy picture, is it?"
What did the people who planned for actual nuclear war during the Cold War think their nuclear wars would look like? What would they be targeting? What would the consequences be?
Understanding the answer to this question, at different time...
It came from the deep
The 1954 film Gojira, known in the United States as Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), is famous as the exemplar of the genre of giant radioactive monsters who go on destructive rampages. There had previously been giant monsters (e.g. K...
Burning up the world
The idea that scientists might be able to quite literally detonate the planet, or at least set its entire atmosphere or oceans on fire, is not one that had much plausibility prior to the discovery of nuclear reactions. But once that little...
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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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