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Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): One Step From Nuclear War, and I Didn’t Even Know It
One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticating and repeating messages for the nuclear-armed B-52 fleet in Southeast Asia. Then his phone lines started dinging,...
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Monologues (The War Horse Sessions): One Step From Nuclear War, and I Didn’t Even Know It is an episode from Things That Go Boom by PRX. One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticat...
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Published Dec 16, 2024, 10:51 long, audio available.
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One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticating and repeating messages for the nuclear-armed B-52 fleet in Southeast Asia. Then his phone lines started dinging, with signal after signal — and he couldn’t figure out why none were a match. This monologue is the second in our series with The War Horse . Additional Resources We Were at DefCon 2 — One Step From Nuclear War — and I Was Checking My Work , Ed Meagher, The War Horse, 2024
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Published Dec 16, 2024 and 10:51 long