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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
The Growling Bombers
The arrival in Britain of the B-29s in 1948.
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2 years, 11 months ago
The Bloody Union Jack on Top of It!
Britain's decision to build their own atomic bomb.
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2 years, 11 months ago
Four Minutes of Threads, Part 26
Standard life - for all of your life!
Rat-trading, pylon-snapping, dog-barking, umbilical cord-chewing, starving, freezing Threads!
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2 years, 11 months ago
Project Sunshine, Part 2
The secret plutonium experiments carried out in Cold War America.
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2 years, 11 months ago
Project Sunshine, Part 1
The gathering of children's bones in order to track fallout.
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3 years, 1 month ago
Four Minutes of Threads, Part 25
The survivors try to drag and hack dead crops from the ground and, high on the moor, Ruth's baby is born. A moment of hope and joy? Don't be daft!
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3 years, 1 month ago