The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240)
Graham Bate was 30-year-old Civil Servant when he built his own nuclear bunker in the garden of his rural home 20 miles outside Hull in the UK. It was here that the Bate family expected to survive for...
17 Jun 202251min
Cold War number stations (239)
You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting random groups of numbers through the ether. These are number stat...
10 Jun 20221h 19min
Air warfare in the Cold War (238)
The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars throughout the wider world in which air power played a vita...
3 Jun 202254min
Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Don't miss the previous episode here https://coldwarconversation...
27 Mai 20221h 7min
The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her story begins in Laos during the Vietnam War where she accompa...
20 Mai 202258min
The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)
The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It was the largest international event staged in North Korea up until then. The even...
13 Mai 202258min
Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)
Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one of the UK's most secretive and controversial military research faci...
6 Mai 20221h 11min
Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)
In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an ad in the Washington Post called Air America. When he was cal...
29 Apr 20221h 26min
