• Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein

  • Aug 12 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein

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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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