Sat. 11/4 10a: Russia threatens Ukraine with nuclear missiles. The Ukraine worries over attacks on its nuclear power plants. From these headlines, award-winning producer David K. Dunaway (Pete Seeger; Route 66; Aldous Huxley) explores the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy and its reception in American music of many genres: folk, country, western, bluegrass, gospel, blues, r & b, and calypso. Music consultant on the Academy-Award-winning documentary, Atomic Café, Dunaway (and co-producer Matthew Melendy) have a timely, news-related musical documentary with a second look at the history of nuclear threats for a new generation. November is the 70th anniversary of the hydrogen bomb.
Music of the Nuclear Age
![Operation Crossroads - Baker detonation](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/588b47a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5160x2696+0+0/resize/880x460!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc5%2F66%2Ff45d67f54251af5995bb273b5bee%2Foperation-crossroads-baker-wide.jpg)
United States Department of Defense (either the U.S. Army or the U.S. Navy), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons