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Ladybug, Ladybug
The 1963 film about the fear of nuclear attack in an American school.
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5 years, 6 months ago
The Russian Woodpecker
The Duga radar near Chernobyl which watched the skies for nuclear attack.
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5 years, 6 months ago
The Irish Triangle
Why did so many trawlers sink in the Irish Sea during the Cold War?
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5 years, 7 months ago
Priscilla and the Pigs
The Priscilla Test and its experiments on pigs
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5 years, 7 months ago
Pennies and Gravediggers
Nuclear retaliation in the age of Harold Macmillan
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5 years, 8 months ago
Four Minutes of Threads, Part VII
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5 years, 8 months ago
Fail Safe
We look at the harrowing nuclear war film, and ask how realistic it was.
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5 years, 8 months ago
1983: Cruise Missiles in Britain
The controversial arrival of cruise missiles at Greenham Common and Molesworth.
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5 years, 8 months ago
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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5 years, 9 months ago
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.…
5 years, 9 months ago