Julie McDowall

Nuclear writing, reviewing, podcasting, exploring…

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Gold Phones and Red Phones: Telephones in Nuclear War 18th August 2019
How Britain, America and the USSR made use of telephones in their plans for nuclear war.
Nuclear Kids 11th August 2019
Children in care or custody during nuclear war
False Alarm! 8th August 2019
How did we respond to false nuclear alerts in the Cold War?
Protect and Survive Monthly 22nd July 2019
A look through the back issues of PROTECT AND SURVIVE MONTHLY
Inside the Soviet Union (Part 2) 14th July 2019
The second part of my interview with Kristaps Andrejsons of The Eastern Border podcast.
Inside the Soviet Union with Kristaps Andrejsons 7th July 2019
Life, paranoia, and the nuclear threat as seen from Soviet Latvia
Atomic Dog Tags 30th June 2019
1950s America issued dog tags to kids so their burned bodies could be identified after nuclear war.
Australia 24th June 2019
Was it safe Down Under? How Australia prepared for, and imagined, nuclear war.
Operation Alert and the Angry Mothers 16th June 2019
America's Operation Alert and how it was disrupted by mums and babies and toys.
Kiev and the Soviet metro systems 9th June 2019
How the Soviet metro stations could be used as fallout shelters.