Podcast Episodes

Hurricane! Britain gets the bomb

Britain gets the bomb! Then gets left behind again...

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2 years, 5 months ago

Why Australia?

Why did Britain choose Australia for its first nuclear test - and why did Australia say yes?

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2 years, 5 months ago

Four Minutes of Threads, Part 27

Ruth! Work! Up!

In this episode we see the fine reward Ruth gets for rearing her child and guarding her from the ultimate horrors of the world.

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2 years, 5 months ago

Canadians Don't Flap!

Looking at a Canadian civil defence magazine from the 1960s, called Survival.

Its main purpose was to overcome apathy amongst Canadians about nuclear …

2 years, 6 months ago

N.E.A.R.

In the 1960s, America considered the N.E.A.R. system: a little black box you plug into the wall which acts as a personal air raid alarm.

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2 years, 7 months ago

Atomic Wonderland

It's 1951 and Churchill is back in Downing Street - but is he living in "atomic wonderland"?

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2 years, 7 months ago

Sorry We Missed You!

Clement Attlee's efforts in 1950 to make America promise to consult Britain before launching the nukes.

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2 years, 8 months ago

Ted Turner's Doomsday Video

The short video recorded by CNN which would be broadcast if nuclear war started.

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2 years, 8 months ago

Four Minutes to Midnight - 1981 BBC lecture

In 1981, Protect and Survive Monthly claimed they had been "attacked" in a BBC lecture. I found the lecture, and analyse it here.

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2 years, 8 months ago

The Growling Bombers

The arrival in Britain of the B-29s in 1948.

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2 years, 8 months ago