Atomic Hobo - Nuclear War Podcast

By Julie McDowallSociety & Culture History

Atomic Hobo - Nuclear War Podcast episodes

November 27, 2023 Hurricane! Britain gets the bomb
Britain gets the bomb! Then gets left behind again...

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36 min
November 13, 2023 Why Australia?
Why did Britain choose Australia for its first nuclear test - and why did Australia say yes?

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20 min
November 07, 2023 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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42 min
October 16, 2023 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 war and civil defence, and it tried to do this with some humour!
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37 min
September 18, 2023 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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16 min
September 04, 2023 Atomic Wonderland
It's 1951 and Churchill is back in Downing Street - but is he living in "atomic wonderland"?

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25 min
August 30, 2023 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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23 min
August 21, 2023 Ted Turner's Doomsday Video
The short video recorded by CNN which would be broadcast if nuclear war started.

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28 min
August 14, 2023 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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47 min
August 07, 2023 The Growling Bombers
The arrival in Britain of the B-29s in 1948.
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24 min