Trickle Down Episode 7: How To Be Afraid (Part 1) Sample
b"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.\\n\\nThe solution? Make people afraid.\\n\\nCitizens should fear the bomb. But they shouldn\\u2019t lose their heads. Fear is manageable. Panic is not. \\n\\nThe Federal Civil Defense Administration organized messaging and educational campaigns to show how people could defeat potential nuclear destruction with can do American spirit. Officials hoped to fine tune nuclear anxiety, so it never lapsed into apathy or terror.\\n\\nThis is a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at patreon.com/qanonanonymous\\n\\nWritten by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Editing by Corey Klotz.\\n\\nREFERENCES:\\n\\nChernus, Ira (2002) Eisenhower\\u2019s Atoms For Peace\\n\\nGladdis, John Lewis (2005) The Cold War: A New History\\n\\nMasco, Jospeh (2014) The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror\\n\\nOakes, Guy (1994) The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture\\n\\nOsgood, Kenneth (2006) Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad\\n\\nStarck, Kathleen (2010) Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War\\n\\nAlert America!, Google Arts & Culture\\nhttps://artsandculture.google.com/story/alert-america-u-s-national-archives/awVBMrc3sxGJLg?hl=en"