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Russia is at war with Ukraine and Vladimir Putin is making vague nuclear threats. Both Russian and U.S. officials are, mostly, trying to dial things down. A Russian defense official said they don’t have their hands on the button and the Pentagon said it had canceled the test of a Minuteman missile. And yet … days later the U.S. head of Strategic Command said America needed to modernize its nuclear forces and reminded everyone that the test had been postponed and not canceled.
If all this is leaving you a bit anxious about the possibility of nuclear war, you’re not alone. To be clear, the possibility of nuclear war is still damn low … but that doesn’t always make the anxiety go away. Something that has always helped me deal with the threat of nuclear hellfire … is pop culture.
That’s what we’re gonna talk about today.
Here to help me with that is Jacqueline Bryk. Bryk is an analog Roleplaying Game personality, a nuclear policy dilettante, and a nuke wonk gadfly. She’s the writer of many fine games including the Ten Candles hack, Nuke: “A simple, stark game about slowly dying in a city hit by a nuclear weapon.”
Iran's Cycle of Protest and Suppression
Forgetting 9/11
The Report the U.N. Didn't Want You to See
How Ukraine Routed the Russian Military
A Classical View of the Afghan Collapse
Steve Inskeep Is Back From Afghanistan
When Soldiers Tell the Pentagon That It's Wrong
When War Became a Crime
All About Bout
Afghanistan Was Always Worse Than You Thought
Ukraine's Alamo: The Siege of Azovstal
Biden in Jerusalem
ICYMI: The Origins of Russia's War in Ukraine
The Assassination of Shinzo Abe and the Roots of Political Violence
Why America Can't Quit Saudi Arabia
The Hooligans Fighting for Ukraine
On the Frontline in Ukraine and a Roe Reaction in Real Time
Why India and the U.S. Aren't Best Buds
Proud Boys, January 6, and When a U-Haul Is a Clown Car
The Dream of the Kurds Is Alive and In Danger
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