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Why Is There Still So Much Nostalgia for Nuclear Apocalypse?

Why Is There Still So Much Nostalgia for Nuclear Apocalypse?

The popularity of nuclear apocalypse is nostalgia for a time when our worries were wrapped in a single nuclear package, and all we needed was a bunker and a dream.

Manual for Survival’s History of Chernobyl Resonates in Our Time of COVID-19

Manual for Survival’s History of Chernobyl Resonates in Our Time of COVID-19

Shortly after the reactor explosion in Chernobyl in 1986, officials in Belarus offered up an argument that will be hauntingly familiar to those tracking the spread of COVID-19.

On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’

On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’

Journalist Katya Cengel's memoir, From Chernobyl with Love, is more illuminating of the American mindset than it is of Latvia and Ukraine.

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