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By Alex Wellerstein
| Doomsday Machines
I had an interesting conversation recently with Ward Wilson about the historicity of the moral revulsion of destroying cities. Ward brought up the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, a case he has written about before, and how even people in the Ancient world seemed to regard the destruction of an entire city as a moral hazard unlike most of those found in war.
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Wasteland wrap-up #81

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By Alex Wellerstein
| Doomsday Machines
Greetings from somewhere in the air Iin between Germany and France… I was in Germany for much of last week, attending a conference, the 25th meeting of the Science and Democracy Network. I am, as I write this, flying back to Paris from Berlin.
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The spoils of nuclear war

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By Alex Wellerstein
| Doomsday Machines
One of the things that makes Civil Defense interesting to me, as a historian, is that if one takes it truly seriously — which not all of its advocates do or have done — it involves trying to think very concretely about what would happen during a nuclear war, and what kind of world would exist for those who survived a nuclear war. These imagined scenarios, particularly when they get very granular in their attacking the problem of nuclear war survival, often feel surreal.
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