Atomic Hobo

JULIE MCDOWALL

  • 26 minutes 13 seconds
    Fiascos, Mormons and Graves: Nuclear News from 1981 Aldershot
    I go into the newspaper archives to see what the local papers in Aldershot were saying about nuclear war in the early 80s.

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    10 June 2025, 1:53 pm
  • 25 minutes 8 seconds
    When The Wind Blows, Part 10

    Their first hours within the tiny inner refuge.


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    Julie

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    2 June 2025, 2:16 pm
  • 25 minutes 58 seconds
    Paper Tigers

    Chairman Mao and his "paper tigers".


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    I quote a lot of good books in this episode, so here is a list:


    Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Yang Jisheng

    Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, by Frank Dikotter

    The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence Freedman

    The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad

    The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis



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    27 May 2025, 12:15 pm
  • 33 minutes 12 seconds
    When The Wind Blows, Part 9

    The first terrible 48 hours after the Bomb drops...


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    19 May 2025, 2:27 pm
  • 39 minutes 39 seconds
    Four Minutes of When The Wind Blows, Part 8

    The episode where the bomb drops!


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    Julie

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    12 May 2025, 4:08 pm
  • 36 minutes 3 seconds
    When The Wind Blows, Part 7

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    29 April 2025, 7:45 pm
  • 26 minutes 55 seconds
    Operation Wake Up!
    "LA was bombed today" said the local paper in 1951. This was Operation Wake Up.

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    21 April 2025, 7:00 am
  • 23 minutes 6 seconds
    A Silly Name for the H-Bomb

    The 1950s trend - which caused mockery and anger - for calling the hydrogen bomb "clean" or "humanitarian". Could the Americans make this awful weapon clean, or was it just a ploy to quiet our fear of fallout, and silence calls to ban nuclear testing?


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    Julie

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    20 March 2025, 12:43 pm
  • 43 minutes 1 second
    When The Wind Blows, Part 6
    The shadow of death falls over Jim and Hilda's cottage. Not that they notice! Too busy sorting out bottles and pepper pots - getting things just right for the bomb!

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    10 March 2025, 6:00 am
  • 33 minutes 2 seconds
    "Killed Twice": Cars in Nuclear Tests
    Operation Hot Rod in 1951 took five 1930s cars out to the new Nevada test site.

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    4 March 2025, 11:10 am
  • 37 minutes 44 seconds
    Annie and Her Flying Toilet

    The 1953 nuclear test, ANNIE, and her creepy mannequins, wrecked cars, and flying toilets.


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    24 February 2025, 6:00 am
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