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Their first hours within the tiny inner refuge.

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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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The first terrible 48 hours after the Bomb drops...

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The episode where the bomb drops!

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Julie

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The 1950s trend - which caused mockery and anger - for calling the hydrogen bomb "clean" or "humanitarian". Could the Americans make this awful weapon clean, or was it just a ploy to quiet our fear of fallout, and silence calls to ban nuclear testing?

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Julie

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