RADIO(active) Waves

This month's Radio(active) Waves is revisiting a previous subject to celebrate Black History Month. We have been graciously granted permission to release this episode using audio from an oral history that Professor Jeffries did in 1987. Join us as we learn more about this interesting and insightful man in his own words. As always please feel free to contact us with comments or questions at info@nuclearmuseum.org

Join us this month for an exploration of one of the most notorious American patent medicines of the 20th century. David and Anna discuss the history of Radithor and its role in the development of the Federal Drug Administration. The museum's bottle of Radithor: https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/virtual/vex1/69B403CC-14E3-42B5-860A-956464211486.htm The museum's Radithor brochure: https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/virtual/vex1/B6BB48D4-70B3-4192-A67F-519989277620.htm Please feel free to contact us for any reason at info@nuclearmuseum.org

For our December podcast, Radio(active) Waves had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Milo Schield. Dr. Schield is a consultant with the University of New Mexico, has a Ph.D. in Space Physics from Rice University, and is active in the world of academic statistics. Join David and Anna as we learn more about Dr. Schield's mission within his field. Statistical Literacy can help to answer questions about the way that statistics help (and hinder) us when navigating a modern world filled with data and offers us clues about the way that statistics may have affected the public view of the nuclear industry. As always, please feel free to contact us at info@nuclearmuseum.org

For this month's podcast, we decided to do something a little bit different. David scheduled some really amazing programming for Nuclear Science Week, and he was able to conduct a fascinating interview with a professional working in the nuclear industry. We thought that it would be a great opportunity for us to share with you what Danielle Redhouse had to say about her unique profession working for Sandia National Laboratories. If you have ever been interested in what it's like to work as a nuclear engineer, this is the episode for you! Here are the videos that were played during the original event so that you can take a look for yourself: https://youtu.be/pa0Fmcv83nw https://youtu.be/valvf2yoVvU As always, please feel free to email us at info@nuclearmuseum.org

Episode description: This month, Anna is in the UK! To commemorate her first bit of travel since we began the podcast mid-pandemic last year, we will be discussing the British Mission and their contribution to the Manhattan Project.

Join us this month for a sneak peek behind the scenes of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History's newest exhibit! Nuclear By Mail tracks the parallel histories of the postal service and stamp collecting and atomic history. Please follow these links to check out the online versions of the exhibit: https://nuclearmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/archive/857996F4-68A4-45F1-B076-107287420864 https://nuclearmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/archive/BEE62C73-B266-464F-BC60-422587482825 https://nuclearmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/archive/A22F5D1F-7883-479A-9941-114119459136 Get in on the conversation about how nuclear can move us towards net zero by using #netzeroneedsnuclear

Episode 14: Don't Change Color Kitty Description: This month David takes Anna on a fascinating journey into the difficulties of warning humans (or whatever may come next) about the dangers of radioactive waste sites. 10,000 years in the future, permanent waste sites will still be hazardous and finding a way to communicate this has left scientists with a philosophical, semiotic, and linguistic conundrum. Join us for this surprisingly lighthearted episode to find out why you too should be afraid of color changing cats!

In this month's episode of the podcast, Anna talks to David about Queer History and the Lavender Scare. This McCarthy era campaign aimed to remove people with same-sex attraction from positions with security clearance in the government and military. Although this campaign was not active until the 1950s, there is evidence that Manhattan Project veterans would have been affected by these policies. Come along and learn a bit about how this history affects the modern nuclear industry! For questions and comments please feel free to contact us at info@nuclearmuseum.org.

This month, David and Anna are continuing RADIO(active) Waves' interview series and taking a peek behind the scenes at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. In this episode, we have a chat with the Museum's Membership and Events Associate, Julie Dolegowski. However, Julie is much more than her title suggests and shares her exciting previous experiences in the museum industry and her interest in Cold War and Military History with us. Please join us for a fun chat about museums and membership! If you have any questions or wish to contact us please email info@nuclearmuseum.org and if you would like to contact Julie, please email jdolegowski@nuclearmuseum.org.Thanks for listening!

In this month's episode of RADIO(active) Waves, David and Anna celebrate their first in-person recording session by giving the audience a special treat. Since the 1940s, Walt Disney and his company have been striving to envision a futuristic world of tomorrow. Today we discuss the ways that Mr. Disney and “the Mouse” have interacted with and encouraged the Atomic Age. Please feel free to check out some illustrations from the picture book “Our Friend the Atom” here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/18/our-friend-the-atom-disney/

In this month's episode of RADIO(active) Waves, Anna and David discuss the prolific physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Dr. Wu is renown for her contributions to the field of physics and her work, which spanned most of the 20th Century, impacted this field both scientifically and socially as she holds the record of “first woman” in several of the positions that she held throughout her career. Please join us to celebrate her life and visit the Atomic History Foundation website to view her profile: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chien-shiung-wu

This episode celebrates Black History Month and the often-overlooked African American scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Here, we discuss Jasper B. Jeffries' life and his contributions to atomic history. To learn more about Jeffries and other African American scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, please visit our partner organization at manhattanprojectvoices.org.

In the final installment of our interview series with Hal Behl, Manhattan Project veteran and Board of Trustees emeritus member at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Hal revisits his time living in Oak Ridge and, after the war, working at Boeing. He discusses some other important milestones in his life as well as some of the “things that we scrounged” for the museum. Hal speaks about everything from “top secret” slabs of lead, to Hal's help with his boss's NASA problems. Join us to hear about this and more!

Happy Holidays everyone! Today we'd like to give you all a little festive greeting card of a podcast episode to thank you for listening and to close out the year on a festive note. Thank you so much for listening and see you next year!

Episode seven of RADIO(active) Waves continues our interview series with Hal Behl, Manhattan Project Veteran and Board of Trustees member emeritus at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Today we explore Hal's experiences working in the nuclear industry developing delivery systems, as well as his work highlighting nuclear medicine in the museum's exhibits and collections. This mission to include nuclear medicine presented the opportunity for Hal to meet Glen Seaborg and earn his self-proclaimed title of “Joint Chairman of the Chief of Scroungers.”

In the second installment of our interview series with Hal Behl, Board of Trustees member emeritus of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, we explore Hal's connections to the museum. This interview takes place at Hal Behl's residence in Albuquerque, NM where David interviewed him about his life. This portion of the interview gives us a peek behind the scenes into Hal's instrumental work facilitating the acquisition of several of the museum's missiles and airplanes and developing the museum's collections.

In this first installment of our interview series we hear from Hal Behl, Board of Trustee Emeritus of the National museum of Nuclear Science & History. Hal has had an interesting life and has been featured in television and other media for his part in the Manhattan Project. This interview takes place at Hal Behl's residence in Albuquerque, NM. This portion of the interview gives us Hal speaking about his early years in the Bronx, his military career, and touches briefly on his time at Oak Ridge.

In this episode of Radio(active) Waves, we revisit the collections' storage and do a deep dive on a man named H. Russell Burner. This charlatan became known within the medical community of Southern California during the first decade of the 20th Century for peddling his "Radium, Milk, and Rest Cure". This "cure" was available for purchase at any of the locations of Burner's chain of sanitoriums. Join us to learn more about this fascinating and unscrupulous man.

In the second installment of our series on safety, we track the historical development of safety measures surrounding radiation. The more that was learned about radiation, the more complex our understanding of atomic science became. This allowed for more advanced measures to be taken to protect those who work with these types of materials. Today we understand that, with the right precautions, radioactive materials can be important and far less dangerous than they once were.

Join us for the first installment of our series “The Observer Effect”. In this series, we will explore histories connected to some of the lesser known or under-researched items in the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History's collections. To kick off this series, we are talking about an often overlooked inventor, businessman, and hero named Garrett Augustus Morgan. Born in the American South in 1877 to formerly enslaved parents, this gentleman would become the first African American in Cleveland to own a car thanks to his brilliant intellect, entrepreneurial spirit, and sheer will power! As the inventor of early prototypes for both the gas mask and the modern stoplight, Garrett Morgan saved countless lives with his dedication to public safety.

Our introductory episode featuring an introduction to Anna Part and David Gibson our podcast hosts. In addition we begin our exploration into radiation history and how safety has changed throughout the years. We also draw some similarities between the protective measures taken for radiation and the current pandemic. This episode is part one of the series on safety.