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Jonathan Schell

The Village of Ben Suc

Jonathan Schell, Wallace Shawn

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Vietnamese refugees preparing to evacuate a village during an American air raid.

The End of a Village

Jonathan Schell’s account of the US military’s destruction of the village of Ben Suc in Vietnam laid bare the problem with many American interventions.

by Wallace Shawn via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2024

Dr. Strange Love, from the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name

Watching the End of the World

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

by Stephen Phelan via Boston Review on June 11, 2019

Tennessee Valley Authority.

The Dam and the Bomb

On Cormac McCarthy.

by Walker Mimms via n+1 on April 3, 2024

The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War

How an appendix to an obscure government report helped launch a blockbuster and push back the possibility of atomic war.

by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on January 25, 2018

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