The FINAL When The Wind Blows
We reach the end of the film. To whom can Jim pray? Is anyone out there, either in heaven, or in the lanes and streets of Sussex? Vote for w...
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20 of 268 episodesCamden's Clever Questions, Part 2
Camden annoy the Government in 1984 with more questions about nuclear war. You can read the accompanying archive material on my Patreon at w...
Camden's Clever Questions
Back into the archives to see what happened when Camden Borough Council wrote to the Home Office in 1984 with some clever questions. All the...
Tetchy Tarzan Takes 'Em On
Michael Heseltine - nicknamed Tarzan - became Defence Secretary in Jan 1983 and formed Defence Secretariat 19, a group charged with attackin...
Ditching Hard Rock
Hard Rock in 1982 would've been the biggest nuclear war planning exercise in Britain for years - but the government were forced to cancel it...
Nuclear War in Florida
Our nuclear book club has now started on Patreon, and the first video is free to view. You can watch it at www.patreon.com/atomichobo The fi...
Pressing the Button: JFK and the PALs
How does a "pal" stop an "individual psychotic" from launching a nuke? JFK had the answer. To get ad-free access, and bonus episodes, visit...
Pressing the Button: Eisenhower
Eisenhower introduced three big nuclear changes which overturned Truman's policies on presidential sole authority. To get ad-free access, pl...
Pressing the Button: 'Fat, dumb and happy'
More on Truman and sole presidential authority, and why did Curtis LeMay say he would refuse to be 'fat, dumb and happy' if America got nuke...
When The Wind Blows, Part 19
Jim finally accepts how dire their situation is. To get ad-free listening and bonus episodes, join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/atomicho...
Pressing the Button: Truman
First in a new series looking at presidential sole authority to "press the button", and what each President has done with that authority. Fi...
When The Wind Blows, Part 18
Oh dear, it's starting to get really grim! To get ad-free listening, plus bonus epiosdes, join us at www.patreon.com/atomichobo Hosted on Ac...
Shadow Libraries
How do you protect the written word from the bomb? Using salt mines and shadow libraries and iron mountains! To get ad-free listening join m...
When The Wind Blows, Part 17
Overkill, megadeath and a single Fruit Pastille. We approach the dreadful end. For ad-free listening, join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/...
Nuclear Fear: The Prologue, Part 2
Here is the second part of the Prologue to NUCLEAR FEAR, my book on nuclear pop culture which can't find a publisher. Should I self-publish?...
Nuclear Fear: the Prologue
A different episode from the usual: this is Part One of the Prologue from my second book, NUCLEAR FEAR. Unfortunately, it cannot find a publ...
Jitters in North Carolina?
Two nuclear crises hit in the early 60s: the Berlin Crisis in '61, then Cuba in '62. How did the good people of North Carolina react? In oth...
The Sculthorpe Nuclear Weapons Incident
What happened on a Norfolk air base in 1958 when an American threatened to k1ll himself by firing a gun into an atomic bomb? My thanks to th...
Soviet Civil Defence: The Komsomol
The Soviet youth organisation, the Komsomol, and how it prepared the young for nuclear war with "predators from the imperialist jungle", as...
Soviet Civil Defence: The Trouble With Vegetables
Americans in the early 50s were told there was a "civil defence gap", and that the Soviets were superior in protecting their population? Was...