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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Trickle Down Episode 7: How To Be Afraid (Part 1) Sample
Description: In the early fifties, the United government had to reckon with the escalating nuclear arms race. The cold war meant that ascendant rival superpowers were amassing the tools of apocalypse. Internal committees and think tanks decided that they had to avoid the American people becoming terrified, paralyzed, and panicked about the bomb.
The solution? Make people afraid.
Citizens should fear the bomb. But they shouldn’t lose their heads. Fear is manageable. Panic is not.
The Federal Civil Defense Administration organized messaging and educational campaigns to show how people could defeat potential nuclear destruction with can do American spirit. Officials ho...