Julie McDowall

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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.
The York Experiment 2nd June 2019
What happened when three Yorkshire ladies spent 48 hours in a shelter
Hiding in the Castle 26th May 2019
Efforts to use castles and dungeons as shelters
1980s Nuclear TV 19th May 2019
What the critics made of British nuclear TV.
Underground Art 28th April 2019
Protecting art and treasure from nuclear attack