In this episode, we picked When the Wind Blows out of the children’s book bin to see what advise the 1982 graphic novel (and 1986 animated movie) have for surviving nuclear war in Britain. How easy was it to follow official government radiation survival guides during the Cold War? What was it like for the average family trying to make sense of nuclear deterrence? Will you ever be able to look at a baked potato again the same way after witnessing this story? Tim Westmyer (@NuclearPodcast) and special guest Sebastian Brixey-Williams (@seb_bw), Co-Director of the think tank BASIC, answer these questions and more.
Before we give up waiting on the Powers that Be to arrive, we recommend checking out:
- The Atomic Hobo podcast episodes on Meals on Wheels and When the Wind Blows
- Protest and Survive (1980)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, (1987 cartoon show)
- The Snowman (1982)
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
- CISD podcast episode “Setsuko Thurlow: Interview with a Hiroshima Survivor”, 2016
- BASIC Think Tank
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