Stories
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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How can we prevent violence?
Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
Date: 1971Reference: 660567i- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED- Books
Pathogens for war : biological weapons, Canadian life scientists, and North American biodefence / Donald Avery.
Avery, Donald, 1938-Date: [2013]- Videos
The Bomb.
Date: 1980- Books
Attack warning red! : how Britain prepared for nuclear war / Julie McDowall.
McDowall, JulieDate: 2023