From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the whole world afraid of the atomic bomb – even those who might launch one. Today that fear has mostly passed out of living memory, and with it we may have lost a crucial safeguard By Daniel Immerwahr. Read by Christopher Ragland. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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