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A Most Terrible Weapon

8 EpisodesProduced by Usha SahayWebsite

A podcast about the dawn of the nuclear age, hosted by Usha Sahay and produced by War on the Rocks, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In each episode, Usha takes listeners on a journey into the early years of the Cold War, t… read more

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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The Humanity Beneath the Bomb

December 30th, 2020

33:56

In the final episode of the series, Usha takes a closer look at the people behind the nuclear arms race. At the 1955 Geneva Summit, the superpowers …

The Soviets' Dark Nuclear Romance

December 16th, 2020

31:16

Once the Soviets got the nuclear arsenal Stalin had sought, they had to learn to live with the bomb - and all the dilemmas that came with it. This …

Building Stalin's Nukes

December 2nd, 2020

34:16

What happens when a poor country, ravaged by war and brutalized by a totalitarian dictator, but dead-set on international greatness, tries to become a nuclear superpower? This episode - the first of three covering the …

The Perverse Sensibility of Nuclear War

November 18th, 2020

28:02

In the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that any strategy that involved threatening to start a nuclear war was playing with fire. But what was the …

The Dilemmas of Deterrence

November 4th, 2020

32:34

The idea of nuclear war became unimaginable almost overnight when the United States and Soviet Union tested the first hydrogen bombs in the early 1950s. But for President Dwight Eisenhower, preventing nuclear war meant …

Planning Armageddon

October 21st, 2020

34:35

A podcast about the dawn of the nuclear age, hosted by Usha Sahay and produced by War on the Rocks, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In each …

A Most Terrible Weapon Trailer

October 14th, 2020

1:34

In August 1945, the atomic era began - and the world was changed forever. A Most Terrible Weapon is a podcast about the dawn of the nuclear age, hosted by Usha Sahay and produced by War on the Rocks, with support from …

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