Alas, Babylon Resources

Every year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists release their annual "Doomsday Clock," which measures how close we currently are to the nuclear apocalypse. We're scared to click.

On the bright side, here's Florida's tourism website if you're looking to book a trip. Hopefully Babylon will still be standing by the time you get back.

Although Alas, Babylon hasn't been adapted into a feature film, the story was told on the anthology television series Playhouse 90 a mere year after it was published.

This piece details a 2017 effort to curtail the global nuclear weapon trade. Just goes to show that nuclear war isn't a bygone concern.

As dark as it is to read someone obituary, Frank's is worth reading because it provides insight into his life—and boy was it an interesting one.

Oh come on now; we're going to have nightmares for weeks.

For more insight into the history of the Cold War, check out this short but informative video from History.

Does this list include crying in the fetal position? No? Well, back to the drawing board for us.

Want to know who exactly in the government has the power to launch nukes? Listen to this killer (literally) NPR piece for more insight.

This is Mount Dora, Florida in 1920, thirty-nine years before the publication of Alas, Babylon. It's supposedly the real-life inspiration for the fictional Fort Repose.

This is a picture of the horrible nuclear explosion over Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II. And just think—the nukes dropped in Alas, Bablyon are way bigger than this one. Scary.