Episode 53 - Who Responded to COVID Best?
We will review the national government responses to coronavirus by these countries: China South Korea Japan Vietnam Australia New Zealand Germany Ital...
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The Podcast of Doom explores the famous and consequential catastrophes, cataclysms, disasters and emphatically bad decisions of world history. If you like fires, volcanoes, floods, maritime disasters, civil conflict, industrial accidents and the foibles of human nature then I invite you to listen to the Podcast of Doom. We will travel around the world and through time to analyze famous calamities and how they occurred.
Emergency Episode - Coronavirus Outbreak
Surprise! I did not expect to be doing anymore podcasts. But the recent outbreak of coronavirus known as COVID-19 demanded an explanation. We are seei...
Episode 51 - A Podcast Announcement
A not so brief announcement about future podcast episodes.
Episode 50 - The Boxing Day Tsunami and Earthquake
On December 26, 2004, an earthquake measuring approximately 9.1 on the seismic scale struck just off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It was th...
Episode 49 - The Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle Disasters
On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger blew up 73 seconds into its flight during liftoff, killing all seven members of the crew. The entire seq...
Episode 48 - The Killing Fields of Cambodia
In 1975, the Communist Party Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia, and began a series of measures to eliminate their perceived internal opponents and...
The Armenian Genocide
As the Ottoman Empire went into decline in the early 20th century relations between Muslim Turks and Christian Armenians deteriorated. Demands for ref...
Episode 46 - The Donner Party Tragedy
In 1846, a wagon train of emmigrants left Springfield, Illinois for the sunnier climes of California. Leaving at the ideal time for a cross-country tr...
Episode 45a - Charmed Times
An announcement of the next five episode topics and an analysis of the current state of the world.
Episode 45 - Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005, Louisiana and Mississippi were hit by the full force of Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that had been a Category 5. Lashing ...