Davis Winkie
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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The U.S.
is in the midst of a broader $1.7 trillion plan to overhaul that infrastructure, overhaul the arsenal, and upgrade more things than just the land-based missiles.
We're building new nuclear submarines right now.
We're building a new nuclear bomber right now.
We're developing new nuclear warheads.
right now.
And so even if we are having these warnings against a new arms race and a new Cold War, the pieces are already falling into place, I would say, for us to be at the starting line.
We worked with noted nuclear weapons historian Alex Wellerstein, who has developed a lot of digital tools related to nuclear weapons.
Some listeners may be familiar with his project Nuke Map, which you can enter geographic coordinates or city name, select the size of a weapon, and it would show you what the effects of a nuclear blast would be for that location.
Alex, for us, was able to adapt a Cold War-era nuclear fallout model called WSeg-10 that the Pentagon used to plan for the worst-case effects of nuclear war.
He built something for us called the Fallout machine.
This allowed us to generate high-quality renderings and even animated versions of what the fallout plumes could potentially look like for strikes against the nuclear sponge.
That allowed us to highlight potential metro areas that could be at risk or agricultural areas that could be at risk.
But Dana, let me tell you, our model that we used is frankly a pretty basic one as far as Fallout models go.
And I want our audience to understand that if there were nuclear war to this extent, there's no way that the effects wouldn't be felt even outside the Fallout plumes that we've generated for our story.
And our hope is that those models lead readers to want to know more about the decisions that have led us to this point and the decisions that may keep us on our path for decades to come.
Thanks, Dana.
That's enough for a rebel.
First down.
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