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Nuclear history
Hiroshima, the Cuban missile crisis, Okinawa and a plan to nuke the Moon: the history behind today’s arsenals, often from newly declassified papers.
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Oppenheimer
Jeffrey is joined by the illustrious Kelsey Atherton to discuss Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, as well as the history and legacy of the…
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The Wizards of Armageddon
Jeffrey and Aaron walk through a piece of foundational field canon, The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan, discussing its coverage of institutional…
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At The Brink
How do we step back from the brink and reduce the very real threat that nuclear weapons continue to pose? Nuclear weapons…
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Mort Halperin and the Okinawa Decision
Mort Halperin a giant as an academic and a policy practitioner. And he’s working on a memoir that covers his sixty year…
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THE GREENER BEE
Do you remember THE GREEN BEE? Where we talked about a mysterious Taiwanese ballistic missile that looked a lot like the Lance?…
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Nuke the Moon.
Jeffrey and Scott celebrate the Lunar New Year by sharing two stories about how the moon featured in the arms race. Scott…
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THE GREEN BEE
In the mid-60s, The Green Hornet was a popular TV show. Popular enough for the Taiwanese to apparently name an early ballistic missile…
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Turkey and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Aaron and Scott talk about the Fourth Player in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Turkey was the lesser-known player in the Cuban Missile Crisis,…
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Egypt’s Missile Programs
Did you know Egypt has a robust ballistic missile program? And has had, since the 1960s? Or that Egypt worked with Argentina and…
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The Bombing of Hiroshima
In this week’s podcast, Jeffrey speaks to Aaron live from Hiroshima. Seventy years after the first use of nuclear weapons, Aaron and…
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Israel’s H-Bomb
The circus continues! In Obama’s America, the truth is revealed! The US helped with Israel’s H-Bomb. But wait, there’s more! To punish…
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Putin’s Dead Hand
Russia’s last early warning satellite is dead. It is no more, has ceased to be, is bereft of life, it rests in…