On this episode of Lost Highways, we take you inside the history of NORAD, or North American Aerospace Defense Command. AND we’ll take you inside The Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the base that has stoked the pop cultural imagination of generations with movies and shows from Dr. Strangelove to Stargate to Interstellar. As the war in Ukraine and Chinese spy balloons have brought long dormant fears of a nuclear attack back to public consciousness, we look at the way the Cold War reshaped and modernized the already militarized American West as it became the stage for a global high noon with the Soviet Union. We also look at the ways NORAD’s vigilant watch for threats beyond our borders may have made us feel safe, but also left us vulnerable to threats from within and the instability of our own nuclear arsenal.
A Lynching in Limon
Flesh for Fantasy
Lost Highways Presents: The Order of Death
The Miseducation of Freddie Freak
Going Back to Trinidad
[Update] "Maybe They Should Call it the Kansas Flu"
Tuned in Dropouts
[UPDATE] Mascots, Mask Off
A Tale of Two Communes
[ICYMI] Snake, Rattle, and Roll
Back Alleys and Backpages
[ICYMI] Ride or Die
A Line in the Sand
Snake, Rattle, and Roll
"Maybe They Should Call it the Kansas Flu"
Ride or Die
Bonus Ep: Game Changers
Mascots, Mask Off
Rock Around the Bloc
The Dearest Field
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
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