Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Scaling the Mountain: The Quest for a Nuclear-free World
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of the 21st century, several groups began efforts aiming not just to control nuclear we...
Nuclear Freeze: A Walk in the Park
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Against the backdrop of heightened Cold War anxieties, the 1980s bore witness to a remarkable phenom...
Marshall Islands: Paradise Interrupted
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1946 through 1958, the US detonated 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, with an explosi...
Atomic Veterans: Training for the Final War
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the era of atmospheric nuclear testing, hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were mad...
Downwinders Part 2: Fatal Harvest
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the long-term impact of nuclear testing on the American citizens it was ...
Downwinders Part 1: The Ultimate Patriots
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the race to develop the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer's Trinity test inadvertently exposed thousands o...
Introducing Season 2
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the Trinity Test, J. Robert Oppenheimer ushered in the atomic age, and a decade-long campaign o...
From Hope to Hostility: US Relations With Putin's Russia [Special Episode]
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Cold War ended in 1992, there was great hope for the newly formed Russian Federation. But f...
Did Ukraine Make a Mistake Giving Up Nuclear Weapons? [Special Episode]
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 90s, Ukraine made the decision to dismantle the thousands of former Soviet nuclear weapons le...
Hibakusha: Survivors of the Bomb
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear the wrenching stories of two survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshi...
Fire and Fury in the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea’s Nuclear Program
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The history of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions has see-sawed between crisis and hope. Bill Perry t...
The Iran Deal: Blocking a Persian Bomb
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Was the Iran nuclear deal really “the worst deal ever negotiated”, as Donald Trump claimed? We’...
Project Sapphire: A Secret Mission to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1994, Andy Weber was serving at the U.S. embassy in Kazakhstan when his auto mechanic asked if he...
Modernizing Doomsday: The True Cost of Our Nuclear Arsenal
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2020, the Doomsday Clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight, telling us that the world is...
Loose Nukes: A Nuclear Success Story
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most Americans cheered when the Soviet Union broke apart into 15 independent countries in 1991, but ...
The Biscuit and the Football: Presidential Nuclear Authority
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is there anything more quintessentially American that naming the briefcase that the President uses t...
Seek Immediate Shelter: Nuclear False Alarms
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is an urgent, specific danger facing our world today: nuclear weapons. In our first episode, p...