Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the threat of radiation was ubiquitous. While radiation took its toll physically, it took an […]
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Episode 21: Chernobyl – Part 2
With the echoes of the Atomic Age fading, the USSR undertook an ambitious plan to build a huge number of […]
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Episode 20.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Three Mile Island
In 1979 Jane Fonda starred in the China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown. Twelve days later, reactor 2 […]
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Episode 20: Chernobyl – Part 1
Every story needs context. In part one of our two-part series on the Chernobyl disaster, we start at the dawn […]
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Episode 19.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Le Mans 1955
The pinnacle of endurance motorsport is the 24 hours of Le Mans. In 1955, Mercedez had an excellent shot at […]
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Episode 19: [Film Fiasco] The Last Men On Earth
In 1954, the book “I Am Legend” envisioned a future where a sole human survivor struggled against a legion of […]
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Episode 18.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] GG Allin
Leigh tells us about a man named Jesus and raised under threat of death, with the graves dug in the […]
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Episode 18: Black Christmas
Ever regretting your choice to travel by air during the holiday season? I bet it doesn’t stack up to the […]
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Episode 17.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Centralia Mine Fire
What’s a decision that you’ve made that had the worst consequences? Maybe when Pennsylvania enacted laws against burning garbage in […]
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Episode 17: We Are Alone
Christmas came early! In this bonus content companion to “Cosmic Terror (at the End of the Universe)” (Episode 11), our […]