Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein
Angry Planet12 Elo 2024

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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