Best Usha Sahay Podcasts (2024)

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The Humanity Beneath the Bomb 33:56

3+ y ago33:56

33:56

In the final episode of the series, Usha takes a closer look at the people behind the nuclear arms race. At the 1955 Geneva Summit, the superpowers tried to manage the dangers of the Cold War through face-to-face diplomacy, dealing with each other as people rather than as faceless nuclear arsenals. Yet Khrushchev's frosty reception of Eisenhower's …

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The Soviets' Dark Nuclear Romance 31:16

3+ y ago31:16

31:16

Once the Soviets got the nuclear arsenal Stalin had sought, they had to learn to live with the bomb - and all the dilemmas that came with it. This episode examines how the Soviet Union adjusted to the difficult new reality of being a nuclear power. Leaders like Khrushchev and Molotov struggled to resolve the contradictions of nuclear warfare, while…

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Building Stalin's Nukes 34:16

3+ y ago34:16

34:16

What happens when a poor country, ravaged by war and brutalized by a totalitarian dictator, but dead-set on international greatness, tries to become a nuclear superpower? This episode - the first of three covering the Soviet nuclear program - explores how Josef Stalin, desperate to match American nuclear might after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, set his …

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The Perverse Sensibility of Nuclear War 28:02

3+ y ago28:02

28:02

In the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that any strategy that involved threatening to start a nuclear war was playing with fire. But what was the alternative? Strategists began searching for ways to wage "limited" nuclear conflicts that wouldn't bring about Armageddon. But they soon found that putting limits on unlimited destructive power is easie…

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The Dilemmas of Deterrence 32:34

3+ y ago32:34

32:34

The idea of nuclear war became unimaginable almost overnight when the United States and Soviet Union tested the first hydrogen bombs in the early 1950s. But for President Dwight Eisenhower, preventing nuclear war meant convincing everyone that you weren’t afraid to fight one. Was Eisenhower playing with fire - or taking the only sensible path? This…

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Planning Armageddon 34:35

4y ago34:35

34:35

A podcast about the dawn of the nuclear age, hosted by Usha Sahay and produced by War on the Rocks, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In each episode, Usha takes listeners on a journey into the early years of the Cold War, telling stories about the dilemmas nuclear weapons …

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A Most Terrible Weapon Trailer 1:34

4y ago1:34

1:34

In August 1945, the atomic era began - and the world was changed forever. A Most Terrible Weapon is a podcast about the dawn of the nuclear age, hosted by Usha Sahay and produced by War on the Rocks, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In each episode, Usha takes listeners on…

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A Most Terrible Weapon

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The Humanity Beneath the Bomb 33:56

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The Soviets' Dark Nuclear Romance 31:16

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Building Stalin's Nukes 34:16

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The Perverse Sensibility of Nuclear War 28:02

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The Dilemmas of Deterrence 32:34

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Planning Armageddon 34:35

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A Most Terrible Weapon Trailer 1:34

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