Jad Abumrad

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6,321 appearances 21 recordings 5 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

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Radiolab · Atomic Artifacts · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And they were just normal postcard size.

Beige color, almost like a manila folder.

And they were known as POD Form 810s.

And those exist.

I have one.

I bought one on eBay for $3.

And looking at one of these, on the backside it reads, quote, I am slash we are safe and can be reached at this address.

And then it has some blank lines where you are meant to fill in the, quote, members of family included in this notification.

And you would fill out who survived in your party.

And then beyond the post office, the US Department of Agriculture was in charge of figuring out how to feed America after nuclear war.

And so they spent an inordinate amount of time figuring out sort of what the most survivable food could be.

And they ended up amassing what they called survival crackers, manufactured in enormous quantity by companies like Nabisco.

Survival crackers.

Is that what they say?

Yeah.

November 63.

Yeah, that's a good year for biscuits.

In fact, on YouTube, you can find this genre of video where people go into old abandoned buildings or mine shafts.

places that used to have fallout shelters, and they unearthed boxes and boxes and boxes of these things.

And they were sort of a particularly unpleasant graham cracker.

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