If you live in the UK, tomorrow night at 10:20, BBC 4 will broadcast the grim and harrowing anti-nuclear war drama âThreads,â preceded at 10:00pm by a retrospective interview with director and producer Mick Jackson to mark the unforgettable filmâs 40th anniversary.
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Abandon de la réforme du corps électoral qui avait mis le feu aux poudres en Nouvelle-Calédonie et report des élections locales: les annonces mardi du Premier ministre Michel Barnier signalent une vol...
Have you ever dreamed about the end of the world? I have â but only twice that I can remember. But I think dreams are an interesting way to peer into anxieties and concerns, and so built a "dream system" into the post-apocalyptic video game I've been working on. open.substack.com/pub/doomsday...
The narrative value of literal nuclear nightmares
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L'Etat va débloquer un nouveau soutien de 87 millions d'euros à la Nouvelle-Calédonie en crise depuis les émeutes du mois de mai et en proie à d'importantes difficultés financiÚres, a annoncé le minis...
Paris sans bouteilles : le plastique à usage unique banni des courses à pied organisées dans la capitale
La mairie de Paris a annoncĂ©, lundi, lâinterdiction des bouteilles en plastique dans toutes ses courses, comme les 20 km de Paris, Ă la mi-octobre, ou le marathon de Paris.
Aujourd'hui, plus de 40 ans aprĂšs sa parution je dĂ©couvre que ce que je croyais n'ĂȘtre qu'une sorte de tube de l'Ă©tĂ© de mon enfance Ă©tait en fait quelque chose d'autre. radio.vinci-autoroutes.com/article/righ...
I find the "mainstream" nature of nuclear war fears in the early 1980s, and the way they "bled" into the zeitgeist, fascinating. It's a little hard for me to imagine successful pop songs about nuclear war today. open.substack.com/pub/doomsday...
The West German nuclear zeitgeist as reflected in two pop songs from 1983-1984
In the late 1950s, there were several cases of "nuclear false alarms," where large numbers of Americans were exposed to warnings that nuclear war was taking place. This study from 1961 looks at what people did, and didn't do, when they got the signal. open.substack.com/pub/doomsday...
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?