ANGUS: How a Pop Song, TV Movie and Four Mothers Saved the

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ANGUS: How a Pop Song, TV Movie and Four Mothers Saved the World

Episode 3 of the Dangerous Memory Podcast with Charlie Angus

Charlie Angus - The Resistance - July 20, 2025 - LISTEN

EXCERPT: "“A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” — Ronald Reagan, after watching The Day After

Welcome back to Dangerous Memory — the podcast where we reconsider everything we thought we knew about the 1980s.

I’m your host Charlie Angus author of the book Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, published by the House of Anansi Press and soon on audio books with Tantor Media. Each episode, we’ll crack open a chapter of the 1980s and ask: what really happened and why does it still matter?

In this next chapter we look at how the world stood on the edge of nuclear destruction. You think the Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous point of the last century?

“Nothing seemed bleaker than the world in 1983 — and yet ordinary people took on the power and de-escalated a war machine primed for mass death.”

But this was also an era of unprecedented public action and resistance. It was a time when a pop song, a made for TV movie and four moms were on the front lines of saving the world.

We’re going back to the 80’s — let’s go. . . . ."

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