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Doomsday & The President

Episode number: 1

Overview: How Cold War plans for nuclear war empowered the president to rip up the Constitution and blow up the world – and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

C.O.G. Clusterfuck

Episode number: 2

Overview: The government’s secret plans to save itself go awry on 9/11.

The Enemy Within

Episode number: 3

Overview: How disasters and civil unrest reveal the Cold War’s racist roots.

National Insecurity

Episode number: 4

Overview: America won the Cold War, but spent billions on the military over everyday people.

Collapse

Episode number: 5

Overview: After spending trillions of dollars worrying about nuclear annihilation, it may already be here. How the mega-rich plan to save themselves while the rest of us die.

Brace for Impact

Episode number: 6

Overview: The elite’s Cold War plan for doomsday fueled the rise of conspiracy theories. Looking into how people from different social hierarchies coped with the Cold War.