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"We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes." Cold War Culture in the Reagan Era w/ Prof. Andrew Hunt (G&R 189)
"We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes." Cold War Culture in the Reagan Era w/ Prof. Andrew Hunt (G&R 189)
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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Oct 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In an amazing new interview, we talk with Prof. Andrew Hunt (@aehunt) about Cold War culture during the Reagan years.
We talk about the array of protest movements in the 1980s that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. And we discuss the "cultural resistance" of the time-- film, television, music-- that critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and posed a challenge to the Cold War's excesses of the Reagan era.
Andrew Hunt is a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He's author of “The Turning” (history of VVAW), a biography of David Dellinger and “We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan.”
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Outro- "Crazy Train" by Ozzy
Links
Andrew Hunt: We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture the Age of Reagan (https://bit.ly/3VOd5h0)
WaPo: Ukraine war gives Gen Xers flashbacks to 1980s nuclear war songs and movies (https://wapo.st/3SoBNS3)
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We talk about the array of protest movements in the 1980s that took up issues such as the nuclear arms race, U.S. intervention in Central America, and American investments in South Africa. And we discuss the "cultural resistance" of the time-- film, television, music-- that critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and posed a challenge to the Cold War's excesses of the Reagan era.
Andrew Hunt is a Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He's author of “The Turning” (history of VVAW), a biography of David Dellinger and “We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan.”
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Outro- "Crazy Train" by Ozzy
Links
Andrew Hunt: We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture the Age of Reagan (https://bit.ly/3VOd5h0)
WaPo: Ukraine war gives Gen Xers flashbacks to 1980s nuclear war songs and movies (https://wapo.st/3SoBNS3)
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https://greenandredpodcast.org/
NEW LINK! Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/MmvSzjRp
Support the Green and Red Podcast//
Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast
Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR
**Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies. With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one! Just contact us at greenredpodcast@gmail.com
This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac.
Released:
Oct 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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