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
