Alex WellersteinVerified account

Ping also @sociologybomb. I see @CherylRofer came in and pinged @wellerstein. What are you asking/wabt to know?

At a thing and a claim was made about how urban planners don’t think about war anymore.

The real question is "did they actually ever even do anything more than think about it" — it's harder to establish than you might think, other than a few very obvious examples (e.g. Abo Elementary School).

(In my experience the only people in the US gov't who think about the effects of nuclear war on American cities anymore are emergency management people and some public health people.)

And even they probably prefer not to think about it too much.

They're more interested in thinking about it these days than they have been in awhile. I've had a lot of interesting conversations. The question again is whether you move beyond talking/thinking and towards "doing" anything, which becomes trickier.