It's totally normal to recommend that one's friends check out https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ , right?
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And then I thought: well how do I do that? And I concluded that spending all my time on a long, academic monograph wasn't how it was going to happen. So kind of ironically given the context, I decided instead I ought to start a blog, and see where that regimen of writing led me.
It led me to try a number of little projects, out of which eventually the NUKEMAP (February 2012) also emerged, and that thing got super famous/viral, and then everything else I did got sort of attached to that as a result.
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So it's one part deliberate action, one part huge lucky break (that I was already in the position and mood to capitalize on). The whole thing worked out a lot better than I would ever have predicted at the time. I still kind of marvel at its strangeness.
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(And I did submit the manuscript for the book last December, so I finally did get around to trying to finalize that conversation with Karen...)
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