We look at the harrowing nuclear war film, and ask how realistic it was.

Fail Safe

The Priscilla Test and its experiments on pigs

Priscilla and the Pigs

Nuclear retaliation in the age of Harold Macmillan

The controversial arrival of cruise missiles at Greenham Common and Molesworth.

The human response to disaster, and how the American authorities tried to manage our nuclear terror.

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.

Panic in wartime: how the people react.

The horrible legacy of nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk site.

A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war.