History Watch: The BBC's 1982 guide to nuclear armageddon Rob Beschizza

climate change The Pentagon wants to spend $100 billion on a new nuclear arsenal Thom Dunn

happy mutants I reviewed William Gibson's novel "Agency" for today's LA Times Cory Doctorow

animation This dark and amazing animation about the end of humankind aired on Ed Sullivan in 1956 David Pescovitz

climate change Humanity isn't likely to extinguish itself, writes SETI scientist David Pescovitz

nuclear war The story of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet missile commander whose disobedience averted nuclear war Cory Doctorow

mistakes Nuclear War Survival Skills (PDF) Rob Beschizza

trump North Korea says it won't nuke Guam this week while Kim Jong-Un waits for Trump's next move Xeni Jardin

war Listen: 'Nuclear War,' Sun Ra (1982) Xeni Jardin

Book Will malfunction or incompetence start World War Three? Andrea James

religion Pacifist sect controls a Mayan-inspired pyramid in North Dakota Andrea James

happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn

Soviet Union The Soviet Union's TOPGUN counterpart Andrew Yi

quentin tarantino Django Unchained at 10: an observation and celebration of the first hour  Lee Keeler

movies Christopher Nolan' Oppenheimer "recreated the first atomic detonation" set without CGI Devin Nealy

crime High-ranking U.S. energy department official accused of stealing passenger luggage from airports Mark Frauenfelder

nuclear University student arrested for threatening to detonate on-campus nuclear reactor if school's football team lost David Pescovitz

russia Watch: Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons. "It's not a bluff." David Pescovitz

politics The blowback of embargoes, cigars and capitalist wars A.E. Gómez

Space Webb and Hubble combine power for astonishing image of Phantom Galaxy David Pescovitz