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

The Russian Woodpecker

The pairing of atomic bombs with sex.

Sex Bombs

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.

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.