Taras Young
I am a researcher, writer and marketer based in Edinburgh.
The best way to contact me is probably via Twitter.
I also have a blog about the Cold War called Communicating the Unthinkable.
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Recent publications
- Nuclear War in the UK
Four Corners Books, 2019
ISBN 978-1-909829-16-9Acclaimed illustrated history of official British preparations for nuclear attack, including many previously-unpublished documents. - Hun-Identified Flying Objects: Air raid myths
Fortean Times 384, October 2019Article on press-driven public hysteria around mysterious objects dropped by German airmen in WW1/2. - How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment
History Today 'Miscellanies' series, October 2018The story of three women locked in a room for two days to simulate life under fallout conditions slowly losing their marbles. - Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
The psychological impact of nuclear war
Medics and the bomb
Wellcome Collection, November 2018 – May 2019A series of short essays on the medical effects of nuclear attack on Britain.
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