A quick review of this oral history of the fall of the Soviet Union

STORYTIME: Second-Hand Time

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

Underground Nuclear Testing, Part II

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

Nuclear retaliation in the age of Harold Macmillan

A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war.