Mike Stafford: Weekdays 10am-12pm & 1pm-2pm

Back when the greatest generation was in its early 20's the providers of popular culture decided to release a torrent of films and television programs that depicted nuclear war. I think it had something to do with the rise to power of two great leaders: Reagan in the States and Thatcher in England. The chattering creative classes had decided that Ronald and Maggie were going to bring an end to the planet once and for all in the name of Western Capitalism and we would all, dancing as we were to New Romance music with Flock of Seagulls hair, be convinced that this was the end.

1983 and 1984 were the years when our televisions were filled with images of nuclear holocaust. Who started it? Didn't matter. Buildings burned like tinder and every bit of stock footage from 1950's U.S. military nuclear testing was pressed into the propaganda battle. Today's ...