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Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein

What do our visions of the post-apocalypse tell us about the present?
Matthew Gault
Aug 09, 2024
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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

This American Life - Ends of the Earth

Doomsday Machines
Post-apocalyptic Road Trips, End of the World-building, and Interesting Times.
By Alex Wellerstein

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