Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Inspired by rising tensions with North Korea, I have taken to blowing myself up with a nuclear war simulator. Yes, you read that right. “Nukemap,” the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of ...