Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein

Angry Planet

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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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