Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein
Update: 2024-08-12
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Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein stops by Angry Planet this week to tell us all about his new project Doomsday Machines. It’s a deep dive into the weird post-nuclear futures we’ve built in pop culture.
- How Warcraft orcs got ICBMs
- Matthew confuses Camus and Sartre
- Food poisoning as practice for the radical acceptance of death and suffering
- Is there any hope in The Road?
- Alex is hung up on the cannibals
- The video game aesthetics of the post-nuclear world
- Debunking gasoline futures
- Working for the authoritarian government to get the petroleum industry back on its feet
- The Civil Defense truncheon
- Deep thoughts on the Fallout franchise
- The American libertarian lone survivor
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