A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Priscilla and the Pigs
The Priscilla Test and its experiments on pigs
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Pennies and Gravediggers
Nuclear retaliation in the age of Harold Macmillan
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Fail Safe
We look at the harrowing nuclear war film, and ask how realistic it was.
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1983: Cruise Missiles in Britain
The controversial arrival of cruise missiles at Greenham Common and Molesworth.
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Disaster Syndrome and Project East River
The human response to disaster, and how the American authorities tried to manage our nuclear terror.
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Sick Presidents and Broken Biscuits
Can a sick or dangerous President be replaced, and how does he launch a nuclear attack? We look at the 25th Amendment, the Biscuit, and the Football.
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Panic!
Panic in wartime: how the people react.
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Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan
The horrible legacy of nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk site.
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Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
A tour of the Cheshire bunker
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