THE EPISODES

Season 1 Teaser

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 1 Show Notes
Guest: Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology), @wellerstein
NUKEMAP (nuclear detonation mapping simulator)

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Episode 2 Show Notes
Guest: Laura McEnaney (Whittier College), author of Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties (2000).

Reading List:
Guy Oakes, The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture (1995).
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2009).
Jennifer Helgren, American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (2017).

Episode 3: The Civil Defense Shadow State

Episode 3 Show Notes
Guest: Garrett Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die (2018), @vermontgmg

PBS American Experience on Operation Alerts
The Greenbriar, the Congressional nuclear bunker in West Virginia

Episode 4: Secular Armageddon

Episode 4 Show Notes
Guest: Peter Bennesved, expert on Swedish air raid shelters and civil defense, @bennesved

The Network for Civil Defense History

Episode 5: Out of Kilter

Episode 5 Show Notes
Guests:
Matthew Grant (University of Essex), author of After the Bomb: Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain, 1945-1968 and “Making sense of nuclear war: narratives of voluntary civil defence and the memory of Britain’s Cold War,” in Social History, @mgrnt
And our own Anthony Eames (Georgetown University), @aeames75

Threads trailer (1984)

Episode 6: Civil Defense Today and Tomorrow

Episode 6 Show Notes
Guests:
Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech), author of Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry (2015)
Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology), @wellerstein
Peter Bennesved, expert on Swedish air raid shelters and civil defense, @bennesved