Manmade Catastrophes

What began in the 90s as a constructive mutual support network, 'involuntary celibacy' would gradually give rise to a grotesquely misogynist worldview that would radicalize scores of young men. Its unbelievable and still-growing death toll has some governments wondering whether Inceldom should be considered a terrorist ideology. 

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Often remembered simply as the less momentous second atomic bombing, Nagasaki was a separate event from Hiroshima that some historians have a much harder time justifying. Marked by miscalculations before, blunders during and censorship after, the city's (likely completely unnecessary) obliteration was shocking enough that nuclear weapons were taken away from the US military's sole discretion.

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Engineering hubris and political fanaticism in Mao’s China led to the deadliest structural and technological failure in human history, claiming as many as 230,000 lives. Yet to this day, very few know anything about it.

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An introduction to our series that unpacks the disasters wrought by human folly..