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

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The 1982 booklet 'Target North West' evaluated civil defence plans for the NW of England. We look at the chapter on Law and Order.

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I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

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The classic nuclear war film, minute by horrifying minute.

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What made the Minuteman so special, why did it spook the Soviets, and does it threaten us?

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The 1950 book on surviving an atomic bomb.

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Second part of our look at THIRTEEN DAYS, the film about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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The Kevin Costner film about the Cuban Missile Crisis

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