{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3dd76634-7b1c-45c2-a9cf-2f6f96d4e0b4/66ba0e5b3889f01ccfc2e6a2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Doomsday Machines With Nuclear Historian Alex Wellserstein","description":"<p><strong>Listen to this episode commercial free at </strong><a href=\"https://angryplanetpod.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://angryplanetpod.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein stops by Angry Planet this week to tell us all about his new project <a href=\"https://doomsdaymachines.net/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Doomsday Machines</a>. It’s a deep dive into the weird post-nuclear futures we’ve built in pop culture.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>How Warcraft orcs got ICBMs</li><li>Matthew confuses Camus and Sartre</li><li>Food poisoning as practice for the radical acceptance of death and suffering</li><li>Is there any hope in <em>The Road</em>?</li><li>Alex is hung up on the cannibals</li><li>The video game aesthetics of the post-nuclear world</li><li>Debunking gasoline futures</li><li>Working for the authoritarian government to get the petroleum industry back on its feet</li><li>The Civil Defense truncheon</li><li>Deep thoughts on the Fallout franchise</li><li>The American libertarian lone survivor</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/779/ends-of-the-earth\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">This American Life - Ends of the Earth</a></p>","author_name":"Matthew Gault and Jason Fields"}