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Apocalypse Week

The magazine was optimistic about the chances of your survival in a nuclear attack - so long as you were prepared (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld)
Apocalypse Week

The bleakest magazine ever published?

By Chris Baraniuk

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The bunkers built to survive apocalypse

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How prepared are we for nuclear war?

By Chris Baraniuk
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How to survive the end of the world

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The two ways civilisation can collapse

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Nasa’s bold plan to stop a supervolcano

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The atomic bomb too big to use

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