Season 1

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.