The Bell and Light alert system, used in America in the early Cold War.

I discuss the booklet A Realistic Approach to Civil Defense, from 1966.

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"All dead..."

Jim tries the TV, the radio, the phone...but there's nothing. "All dead..." he keeps saying.

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In 1983, a GP from a village near Bristol was so worried about the prospect of nuclear war, and how it would leave him unable to effectively treat his patients, that he called a public meeting and asked the residents whether they'd wish him to issue "suicide pills" in the event of nuclear war. I interviewed Dr Richard Lawson to ask him about this very painful question.

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A difficult subject this week - but aren't they all? We don't do sunshine and rainbows on this pod.

I look at the topic of "suicide pills" which was bravely raised by American students at Brown in 1984, and made news all across the USA.

The issue was also present in Britain in the early 80s, and was brought to prominence by a local doctor. I'll be interviewing him for next week's episode which will look at the British aspects of the "suicide pill" debate.

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Thanks,

Julie

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"I never knew a bomb could give you a headache."

The fallout descends and Jim and Hilda start to feel ill.

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Julie

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Their first hours within the tiny inner refuge.

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Thanks for listening.

Julie

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Chairman Mao and his "paper tigers".

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I quote a lot of good books in this episode, so here is a list:

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Yang Jisheng

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, by Frank Dikotter

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence Freedman

The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad

The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

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