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

Fail Safe

The Baby Tooth Survey and how it tracked fallout in the US population

Tracking the Bone Seeker: The Baby Tooth Survey

The pairing of atomic bombs with sex.

What happens when underground tests go wrong? We look at the notorious SEDAN test.

Craters, fallout fears, and deep gouges in the earth. What is an underground nuclear test?

Examining four minutes of the nuclear war film.

The 1963 film about the fear of nuclear attack in an American school.

The Duga radar near Chernobyl which watched the skies for nuclear attack.

Why did so many trawlers sink in the Irish Sea during the Cold War?

The Priscilla Test and its experiments on pigs

A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war.