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Today’s AI Sublime Was Forged in Cold War Cinema’s Atomic Monsters

Ioannis Mademlis / 4 August 2025

Horror and sci-fi nuclear cinema of the Cold War era is our finest rehearsal for the AI future, and that’s why pop culture still reaches for monstrous metaphors when technology leaps beyond comprehension.

Books/History

Hardly an Accident: Harry S. Truman’s ‘Accidental Presidency’

Chadwick Jenkins / 30 March 2018

A. J. Baime offers his readers an "aw shucks" story of an American Everyman thrust into a position of awesome power and somehow "makin' good".

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What Is the Real Story of the Atomic Bombings?

Rhea Rollmann / 6 August 2015

America claimed the atomic bomb ended World War II and saved American lives. Journalist and historian Paul Ham calls that “a pack of lies”.

Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews

Now, Voyager: Barry Hill’s ‘Peacemongers’

Farisa Khalid / 20 April 2015

'Peacemongers', by the Australian poet and journalist Barry Hill, is an epic travelogue and probing meditation on the importance and elusiveness of peace.

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The Atom Bomb’s Blast Shadows

William Gibson / 6 August 2014

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima forever altered popular culture, and the earliest traces of that tectonic shift can be found in an obscure government report and newsreel about the event.