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Cam & Ray's Cold War Podcast

A NSFW, detailed and funny long-form podcast about The Cold War.

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#77 – Bombing Japan

#77 – Bombing Japan

* Which brings us to April 1945.* Only weeks before Germany surrendered on May 7, FDR dies.* And Truman takes over as PO... Read more

13 Apr 2018

57mins

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#70 – No Military Justification

#70 – No Military Justification

* The Potsdam declaration on Japan was tricky.* It was drafted while Churchill was still PM.* In fact it was probably on... Read more

18 Feb 2018

1hr 18mins

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#86 – The Aftermath Part 1

#86 – The Aftermath Part 1

* TRUMAN ANNOUNCES THE BOMB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_UJJ9ObDs* On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an... Read more

29 Jun 2018

1hr 4mins

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#40 – Stalin Plays With Pooh

#40 – Stalin Plays With Pooh

At Yalta, Feb 7 and 8 – days 4 and 5 – are going to be about trying to get agreement on the Polish issues and the issue ... Read more

23 Mar 2017

57mins

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#62 – Truman

#62 – Truman

Harry S. Truman. Farmer. Soldier. Failed businessman. Given his political career by a mobbed-up bootlegger. Became Presi... Read more

27 Oct 2017

1hr 11mins

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#87 – The Aftermath Part 2

#87 – The Aftermath Part 2

* The military had long declared that radiation dissipated quickly in the atomic cities and posed little threat to the s... Read more

6 Jul 2018

1hr 35mins

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#59 – Stalin Versus The Pope

#59 – Stalin Versus The Pope

Stalin crushes the Ukrainian Catholic Church, partly because socialists believe religion is the opium of the masses, and... Read more

6 Oct 2017

47mins

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#23 – Philby

#23 – Philby

This is the first of two episodes about the Cambridge Five! This week – Kim Philby, arguably the most effective spy in t... Read more

14 Oct 2016

1hr 25mins

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#82 – Alex Wellerstein

#82 – Alex Wellerstein

Our guest today is Alex Wellerstein, a self-described “historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons”. He’s a Profe... Read more

29 May 2018

1hr 1min

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#3 – The Man Of Steel

#3 – The Man Of Steel

9 Apr 2016

1hr 10mins

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#65 – Michael Neiberg

#65 – Michael Neiberg

Prof Michael Neiberg is Chair of War Studies and Professor of History, Department of National Security and Strategy, US ... Read more

8 Dec 2017

1hr 14mins

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#67 Clement Atlee

#67 Clement Atlee

Attlee was Churchill’s lame duck deputy PM.  In fact he was the first Deputy PM the UK ever had.  I didn’t realise this,... Read more

24 Dec 2017

59mins

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#6 – The First Red Scare

#6 – The First Red Scare

This is part one of a few episodes that will explain the military, ideological and economic conflicts and tensions betwe... Read more

20 May 2016

1hr 15mins

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#20 – Campbell Craig

#20 – Campbell Craig

Professor Campbell Craig is the Professor of International Relations at Cardiff University. He has held senior fellowshi... Read more

15 Sep 2016

1hr 5mins

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#26 – Prof Fredrik Logevall

#26 – Prof Fredrik Logevall

Today we have another special guest – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International A... Read more

11 Nov 2016

1hr 22mins

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#4 – FDR Part One

#4 – FDR Part One

Part One of our mini-biography of everyone’s favorite wheelchair pilot, FDR. His family background (opium traders), his ... Read more

23 Apr 2016

1hr 7mins

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#17 – Disgustingly Ugly

#17 – Disgustingly Ugly

We start in August 1942. Churchill is still in Moscow, getting down with Uncle Joe. Stalin accuses the British of being ... Read more

25 Aug 2016

1hr 16mins

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#13 – The Great Terror

#13 – The Great Terror

Today’s episode starts off with part 4 of our series on economics, where we look at the role of the media, and then laun... Read more

22 Jul 2016

1hr 33mins

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#5 – FDR Part Two

#5 – FDR Part Two

4 May 2016

1hr 35mins

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#92 – The Truman Doctrine

#92 – The Truman Doctrine

* And so on March 12, 1947, before a joint session of Congress, President Truman articulated, for the first time, a comp... Read more

6 Sep 2018

1hr 16mins

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