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Journalist, historian and author Lesley M. M. Blume, historian of science David Hecht, and nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein join Katie to discuss the film Oppenheimer, the legacy and future of nuclear war and what is happening in Fukushima Japan. Then Jamie Peck joins to discuss the latest developments regarding the Stop Cop City Movement as well as her upcoming live show! Lesley M. M. Blume is an award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ Magazine, Vanity Fair, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Town & Country, Air Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review Daily, among other publications. She often writes about historical nuclear events, historical war journalism, and the intersection of war and the arts. Blume in New York, 2016. Blume's second major non-fiction book, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed it to the World, was released by Simon & Schuster on August 4, 2020, to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. David K. Hecht is a historian of science, focusing on the modern United States. His particular interest is in public images of science, and he has published on the phenomenon of "scientific celebrities." His first book, Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age, was published 2015 (University of Massachusetts Press), and he is currently researching a second book project on the intersections between nuclear and environmental history. Other scholarly interests include the history of energy, as well as the role that popular rhetoric about science plays in reinforcing (and sometimes challenging) the status quo. His courses include "The Nuclear Age," "The History of Energy," "Image, Myth, and Memory," and "Science on Trial." In 2011 he was awarded the Sydney B. Karofsky prize, Bowdoin's annual teaching prize for junior faculty. Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear technology. He is a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he is the Director of Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Letters. His first book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2021), is the first attempt at a comprehensive history of how nuclear weapons ushered in a new period of governmental and scientific secrecy in the USA. His current projects include: a new book about Harry Truman and nuclear weapons; research into the past, present, and potential future of Presidential nuclear weapons use authority; and a video game about life after a full-scale nuclear war set in the early 1980s. His writings on the history of nuclear weapons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and the Washington Post, among other venues, and his online nuclear weapon effects simulator, the NUKEMAP, has been used by over 50 million people globally. He occasionally maintains a blog: Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog. Link to tickets for Jamie Peck's upcoming live show on September 2, 2023 - https://wl.seetickets.us/event/THE-WOKE-MOB/564089?afflky=TVEye Link to Defend the Atlanta Forest Movement - https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/ Link to Stop Cop City Movement - https://stopcop.city/ Subscribe to Jamie Peck's podcast 'Everybody Loves Communism' - Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism Twitter: @ELCPod ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

In this episode in the BarbieHeimer series, we focus on the history of the Manhattan Project and the accuracy of the Oppenheimer movie. We are speaking with nuclear historian Chris Griffith, about the history, and consequences of the atomic age. As a warning, if you haven't seen the film we will be talking about the movie's plot lines and breaking down some of its scenes!Chris is an atomic historian who has created the online archive AtomicArchive, which is aimed at creating content to help the general public understand the science, history, and consequences of the atomic age. He has recently written for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to break down the historical accuracy of the film.Additional Resources: Chris Griffith, 'A Manhattan Project historian comments on ‘Oppenheimer', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, 28 Jul 2023. Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (3rd ed, 1977)The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists National Security Archive - The George Washington UniversityAlec Wellerstein's webpage, and 'NUKEMAP' to simulate the effects of a nuclear explosion anywhere on the map. 

Eric and Eliot discuss Ukraine's birthday gift to Vladimir Putin, likely Russian responses, and Eliot's Atlantic article on Putin's nuclear threats. Eric eats his words about Liz Truss, and they discuss the relative merits of Nero Wolfe and Daniel Silva for escapist reading. Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Email us with your feedback at shieldoftherepublic@gmail.com. Eliot's Essay (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/putin-nuclear-weapons-threat-us-sanctions-military/671642/) Orlando Figes's The Story of Russia (https://www.amazon.com/Story-Russia-Orlando-Figes/dp/125079689X) Yulia Latynina's The Hill Article, “Will Putin use tactical nukes?" (https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3673163-will-putin-use-tactical-nukes/) NUKEMAP (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) Stephen Kotkin's Stalin Biography, Volume 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Paradoxes-1878-1928-Stephen-Kotkin/dp/0143127861) Stephen Kotkin's Stalin Biography, Volume 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Waiting-1929-1941-Stephen-Kotkin/dp/1594203806) Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe) Daniel Silva's Portrait of an Unknown Woman (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/portrait-of-an-unknown-woman/) Daniel Silva's The Cellist (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/the-cellist/) Daniel Silva's English Spy (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/the-english-spy/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eric and Eliot discuss Ukraine's birthday gift to Vladimir Putin, likely Russian responses, and Eliot's Atlantic article on Putin's nuclear threats. Eric eats his words about Liz Truss, and they discuss the relative merits of Nero Wolfe and Daniel Silva for escapist reading. Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Email us with your feedback at shieldoftherepublic@gmail.com. Eliot's Essay (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/putin-nuclear-weapons-threat-us-sanctions-military/671642/) Orlando Figes's The Story of Russia (https://www.amazon.com/Story-Russia-Orlando-Figes/dp/125079689X) Yulia Latynina's The Hill Article, “Will Putin use tactical nukes?" (https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3673163-will-putin-use-tactical-nukes/) NUKEMAP (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) Stephen Kotkin's Stalin Biography, Volume 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Paradoxes-1878-1928-Stephen-Kotkin/dp/0143127861) Stephen Kotkin's Stalin Biography, Volume 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Waiting-1929-1941-Stephen-Kotkin/dp/1594203806) Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe) Daniel Silva's Portrait of an Unknown Woman (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/portrait-of-an-unknown-woman/) Daniel Silva's The Cellist (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/the-cellist/) Daniel Silva's English Spy (https://danielsilvabooks.com/books/the-english-spy/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Discord: https://discord.gg/WVVc7GmKfX WEB: https://www.hidnyugatra.hu MAIL: info@hidnyugatra.hu https://www.patreon.com/hidnyugatra https://buymeacoffee.com/hidnyugatra Amelyben A videokártya és a tápegység beszélgetését rekonstruáltuk, megbeszéljük a Geforce-now-t, a forint árfolyamot és találtunk egy nélkülözhetetlen okosotthon kiegészítőt is. Témák: Kutya gondok Enélkül hogy éltünk eddig? NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein Bevezető hírek: Bezárja a Google a Stadiát Újabb orosz cégvezető halt meg rejtélyes körülmények között SpaceX beszáll a repülősinternet-piacra ételszállító drón miatt maradt áram nélkül 2000 ember Összefogunk Mexikóval, hogy feltárjuk a világűrt kutatók DARTs-oztak egy holddal Filmek: Különben Dühbe jövünk 2022 Netflix Avatar 3D Entergalactic Lou 2022 Netflix Killer Elite 2011 Sorik: Andor 2022 D+ Better Call Saul S01 S02 The Rookie S05 The Rings Of Power Vásárlások: Echo Flex Előzetes: Deadpool 3 The last of Us Könyvek: Wheel of Time 13. Könyv

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-september-2022 [Remember, I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can't guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.] 1: Fiber Arts, Mysterious Dodecahedrons, and Waiting On Eureka. Why did it take so long to invent knitting? (cf. also Why Did Everything Take So Long?) And why did the Romans leave behind so many mysterious metal dodecahedra? 2: Alex Wellerstein (of NUKEMAP) on the Nagasaki bombing. “Archival evidence points to Truman not knowing it was going to happen.” 3: @itsahousingtrap on Twitter on “how weird the [building] planning process really is” 4: Nostalgebraist talks about his experience home-brewing an image generation AI that can handle text in images; he's a very good explainer and I learned more about image models from his post than from other much more official sources. And here's what happens when his AI is asked to “make a list of all 50 states”:

In early August, the FBI seized boxes of classified documents, some suspected to contain nuclear secrets, from former president Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago. News of the FBI's raid ignited a political firestorm but it also shed light on an obscure aspect of US foreign policymaking — America's “nuclear secrecy regime.”   From its WWII origins in the development of the atomic bomb to the latest controversy miring Trump, nuclear secrecy has cast a shadow over the development and execution of US national security policy. In this episode, historian Alex Wellerstein joins the Eurasia Group Foundation's Mark Hannah to help us make sense of America's byzantine classification system, the bureaucratic process that makes it work, and its inherent tensions with democracy. Alex also explains how a president's ability to declassify information is more complicated than some would have us think.  Alex Wellerstein is an associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he is the director of Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Letters. Alex is the author of the book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (2021), and the creator of NUKEMAP, an online nuclear weapons effects simulator. To listen to more episodes or learn more about None Of The Above, go to www.noneoftheabovepodcast.org. To learn more about the Eurasia Group Foundation, please visit www.egfound.org and subscribe to our newsletter.

It's been too long without our favourite comedy/adventure 90's hero, and this time he's joined by Alicia Silverstone. Meanwhile, Sissy Spacek is hamming it up in the basement with Christopher Walken, reading Dale Carnegie and Reader's Digest and developing an alcohol dependency. But Abi and Freda find a way to take this all very seriously. Cuban Missile Crisis? Terrifying! Fallout Shelters? Freaky and True! Tsar Bomba???? Get out of here!.It's party time in my radiation station..Here is some excellent material for you:Nukemap by Alex WellersteinVox videos on nuclear fallout shelters:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gKhm09PKPQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcQ7hESI-M (Bert the Turtle)Cuban Missile Crisis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbVuTXg4CQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnPo_A9LJA&t=2793s (Vasili Arkhipov and perspective of submariners in B59)Survey on Nuclear Fallout Sheltershttps://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/Songs about Fallout Sheltershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7N9JeH3SzEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUqh7uF1G4 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Twitter's TOR Onion service, Google buying Mandiant, Endurance discovery Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/654 Sponsors: streak.com/twig Codecademy.com promo code TWIG twit.cachefly.com

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nuclear Preparedness Guide, published by Fin on March 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Author: Finan Adamson Last Updated 03/2022 Overview This doc is to help you prepare for the tail risk of nuclear war. Estimates vary, but an EA Forum survey put the annual probability of US-Russia nuclear war at 0.24%. This doc will go into some detail on threat models of nuclear war and then go over preparations you could make to survive being near a nuclear event. Threat Models Nuclear Bombs To get a sense of how a nuclear bomb damages an area, the distance of radioactive fallout, etc. you can check out NukeMap. The damage caused by a nuclear bomb or missile being detonated is going to depend on many factors including bomb size, detonated on ground or in air, weather, etc. This chart includes some distances and effects for different yields and detonation heights. Yield can vary a lot and is difficult to estimate because yields are often secret and can be changed in similar sizes of missiles because the nuclear material is not a heavy part of the missile. Historically, ICBMs in the Russian Arsenal include a range from ~40 kilotons to ~6 megatons. The largest bomb ever tested was Tsar Bomba, which had a yield of about 50 megatons. States generally keep modern yields secret, but common yields of ICBMs in the US and Russian arsenal would almost certainly include warheads with yields in the 100-500 kiloton range and might include weapons of 1 to 6 megatons. I'm basing this guess off of Wikipedia's list of nuclear weapons. Nuclear War Estimates vary, but an EA Forum survey put the annual probability of US-Russia nuclear war at 0.24%. Living in the US, Russia, Canada, and Northern Europe this is the most concerning nuclear threat. 9 countries possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear Winter Nuclear winter is a controversial risk. During the cold war the security community and the scientific community disagreed about how bad a nuclear winter would be or even if it was possible. The cooling effect depends on a lot of things. How much smoke is created, how much of it is black carbon, how high is that lofted in the atmosphere, what is the weather, were there firestorms, what materials were burned, etc. Looking through the scientific literature, there's a lot of uncertainty, but in an all out nuclear war between Russia and the US, a nuclear winter lasting months to years seems plausible. If there were a nuclear war between, say, India/Pakistan (about 100 nukes each) there would likely be global climate effects, but probably not nuclear winter. If you were prepping for nuclear winter you'd want months of stored food and water in a place away from potential targets. In the case of nuclear winter, you'd likely want to evacuate to somewhere in the southern hemisphere. EMP The probability of large scale damage from EMP could be higher than other kinds of damage from nuclear weapons because it takes fewer weapons to affect a large area. A single nuclear weapon detonated high enough in the atmosphere could affect an area about the size of the US. What we know about EMP comes from tests done by the US and Russia during the cold war. The US test took out all known satellites at the time and the russian test irreparably damaged several miles of power lines. The major concern from EMP is damaging the electrical grid. The US electric grid depends on Large Power Transformers. If the large power transformers were damaged it could take a long time to replace them. They depend on a lot of custom parts and rare materials. Large Power transformer production takes 1 to 2 years. Perhaps that would be sped up in an emergency or it could take longer if critical resources or supply chains are damaged. I could also imagine transitioning to more localized grids in that situation, but that would still result in unreli...

La Guerra Fría fue un periodo crucial de la historia reciente: En la segunda mitad del S. XX la sombra de la aniquilación nuclear se proyectaba sobre toda la humanidad, en el marco de la pugna entre dos super-potencias mundiales: EE.UU. y la URSS. Acompáñame en un viaje por las etapas de la Guerra Fría y sus momentos más dramáticos. Repasaremos aquellas terribles armas nucleares que nos aterrorizaban a los que fuimos niños en los 70s y 80s. Veremos sus tipos y características, y daremos un vistazo a algunos de planes y simulaciones de "Tercera Guerra Mundial" que estudiaban los estrategas de ambos bandos. Y al final del programa hablaremos de videojuegos y juegos de mesa sobre esta temática. Enlaces para saber más: *Blogs sobre Historia de la Guerra Fría: https://stilloutinthecold.net/ https://coldwarhistoryblog.com/ *Lugares y paisajes de la Guerra Fría: http://www.thebohemianblog.com/tag/cold-war *Nukemap: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ *Call of Duty: Black Ops: https://www.callofduty.com/blackops/ *Arma/Op. Flashpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint:_Cold_War_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMA_(series) *Twilight Struggle: http://www.elclubdante.es/twilight-struggle-resena-by-alvaro-deniz *Twilight:2000 https://frialigan.se/en/games/twilight-2000/ Música CreativeCommons: Driving to the Delta (Lobo Loco), Running Waters (Jason Shaw), Podcast Theme (Kevin Hartnell), Pure Adrenaline (Eddy). Dejad un comentario y un me gusta (¡si es el caso!). Suscríbete si te gustan los episodios y difúndelos todo lo que quieras 😊

Neste episódio, Solari e Thiagão erram seguidamente o nome de Robert Oppenheimer, conversam sobre Hiroshima, afrobeat nigeriano, Godzilla, bombardear Ribeirão Preto, e como aprenderam a parar de se preocupar e a amar a bomba. DVD "Gen – Pés Descalços" (Versátil): https://bit.ly/38Og7vE "Rosa de Hiroshima" - Arnaldo Antunes (2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RCw_EzFmgg Exposição "Elongated Shadows" (Apexart): https://apexart.org/faust.php Site de Kei Ito: http://www.kei-ito.com/ Site de Andrew Paul Keiper: http://www.andrewpaulkeiper.com/about Coluna de Ubiratan Leal sobre Kazuaki Tasaka (Trivela): https://bit.ly/2KgStxP Levy Fidelix e a bomba atômica (UOL): https://bit.ly/36DYgVE Museu do Memorial da Paz de Hiroshima: http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng NukeMap: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Cinemassacre Godzillaton: https://cinemassacre.com/category/moviereviews/monstermadness/monster-madness-2008/ Atomic Bomb William Oneyabour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7UgkNDAUYQ Trailer de Doutor Fantástico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLswRLg_qA

Today I discuss data visualization, COVID-19, and risk communication with Alex Wellerstein.Alex Wellerstein is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies Program at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He has a PhD in the History of Science, and his research interests are primarily in the history of nuclear technology. His book, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, will be available from the University of Chicago Press in early 2021. He is the creator of the NUKEMAP online nuclear weapons simulator, and taught courses on data visualization for social purposes for many years. He is also a co-PI for the Reinventing Civil Defense Project,sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which is tasked with developing a holistic approach to nuclear threatcommunication.

Alex Wellerstein, historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology and creator of NUKEMAP, returns to Press the Button for a discussion on the history and myths about nuclear weapons on the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test, the world's first nuclear explosion. Early Warning features Tom Collina and progressive foreign policy strategist Elizabeth Beavers discussing the long-overdue national debate over federal budget priorities, and congressional efforts to reduce Pentagon spending.

Both Eric and Jon have seen Jumanji; Nebraska farmers like Right to Repair. Visa says gas stations are vulnerable, Unicode is (both?) evil and awesome, and we discuss the state of Ransomware in 2019. For fun, we have a nuclear impact map application (??) and Kotlin vs. Java. Also some ancient blog references. 0:00 - Introduction 2:23 - Jumanji: The Next Level 5:20 - Mead Update 8:14 - Right To Repair in Nebraska 11:22 - Vulnerable Gas Stations 19:10 - Hacking Github with dotless 'i' 21:51 - Evil Twins 24:54 - Awesome Unicode 26:44 - State of Ransomware 38:02 - Nukemap 41:15 - Kotlin vs Java 42:30 - Android+kotlin 45:27 - Kingdom Of Nouns

Today on Being Jim Davis we spend several minutes planning a surgical nuclear strike on the Muncie, Indiana metropolitan area. You can join in on the fun over at NUKEMAP, a very cool and fun website. Your hosts for today's episode: Jon Gibson, Christopher Winter, Jesse Cooper Jesse has three podcasts! Listen to them: Alphabet Flight, Creepy Critters, and Limited Theories Today's strip Become a Patron! Or visit these other fine internet URLs: BJD Homepage | BJD Twitter | BJD Facebook Page | Pitchdrop Network Homepage

Ostatni odcinek radioaktywnej serii uderza z jasnością tysiąca słońc. Okiełznanie zjawiska rozszczepienia atomu to nie tylko medycyna i prąd, ale też najbardziej spektakularna broń, jaką człowiek użył w swojej historii. Postawmy sprawę jasno - jak bardzo mamy przerąbane?Materiały dodatkowe:https://sprawdzam.studio/link/bomba-pluton Ministerstwo Energii uczy, jak wytworzyć plutonhttps://sprawdzam.studio/link/bomba-ograniczanie historia ograniczania broni jądrowejhttps://sprawdzam.studio/link/bomba-nukemap NUKEMAP - zbombarduj swoje ulubione miastohttps://sprawdzam.studio/link/bomba-trump Donald Trump i jego przycisk atomowy

Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology and the creator of NUKEMAP, an interactive map that calculates the effects of the detonation of a nuclear bomb. He joins Joe Cirincione for a special interview on the history of nuclear weapons, deterrence theory, and why we never really left the 'first' nuclear age. Ploughshares Fund Programs Director Michelle Dover hosts Early Warning with our policy director Tom Collina and special guest Caroline Dorminey, policy director at Women's Action for New Directions (WAND). They discuss Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker, nuclear weapons spending within the context of upcoming negotiations on the US government budget and debt ceiling, and the recent passing of Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  Have a question about nuclear issues? Email us at pressthebutton@ploughshares.org NUKEMAP: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Nuclear Weapons – With Trump abruptly announcing that the US is going to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF, it seemed important that we find out exactly what that would mean, not only to the U.S. but the world. To that end, we called up Dr. Robert Dodge, who is President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles (PSR-LA), Board Member with National PSR and Co-chair, PSR Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Supporting links mentioned on the show: NUKEMAP: What would be the impact of a nuclear bomb in your community? Check it out at Nukemap: www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap. BACK FROM THE BRINK: That’s where you can sign your support to abolish nuclear weapons as an individual, organization, school, religious group, and especially your town, city, county, or state. Learn more at PreventNuclearWar.org. DON’T BANK ON THE BOMB: An international campaign to stop investing in nuclear weapons production by removing your personal funds from any company that is part of the nuclear production chain. It doesn’t matter how much money you do or don’t have – DBOTB it gives you the information, talking points, and verified, footnoted proof of what you’re saying so you can engage with your banker, financial advisor, pension fund manager – and your neighbors. Dontbankonthebomb.com PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: It’s not just for physicians or medical personnel; anyone can join. Check out the national and local chapters at: PSR.org

Our guest today is Alex Wellerstein, a self-described “historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons”. He’s a Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He blogs here and is on Twitter here. He is also the creator of the NUKEMAP. Alex joined us to talk about the decision to drop […]

Featured Image:  Cartoon by Khalil Bendib, OtherWords.com This Week’s Featured Interview: Steven Starr is a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. www.NuclearDarkness.org Make sure you check out the Firestorm Simulator. NukeMap – Find out what a nuclear bomb of any size would do to your, yes...

Ken Block's Climbkhana, a mosquito repellant phone, Nukemap, Puerto Rico aftermath, Las Vegas Shooter, Antifa in Utah, Oreo Cookie Butter Cookies, Coinflash investing, & a US and Russia Moon Station. Links from this episode: - TOYO TIRES | Ken Block’s Climbkhana: Pikes Peak Featuring the Hoonicorn V2 - It's Ken Block's 1,400bhp Hoonicorn Mustang V2! - RECARO Presents "Devil's Playground": The Jeremy Foley 2012 Pikes Peak Story - Version 2 (spec change for Climbkhana: Pikes Peak) - LG is releasing a mosquito-repellent phone, but it probably won’t work - iPhone 6 Case, Anuck iPhone 6 Wallet case [Anti Scratch][Heavy Duty][Card Pocket] Dual Layer Hybrid Rubber Bumper Protective Card Case Cover for Apple iPhone 6 4.7 inch & iPhone 6s 4.7" - Rose Gold * - How many people would die if a nuclear bomb hit Salt Lake City? - Nukemap - Trump: Rex Tillerson is wasting his time negotiating with 'Little Rocket Man' - The weird world of North Korea’s restaurants abroad - Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96 - Hugh Hefner’s cause of death revealed - Puerto Rico has big problems, but President Trump isn't one of them: Glenn Reynolds - Amateur Radio Operators Stepped In To Help Communications With Puerto Rico - Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman’s Girlfriend Said She Didn’t Know He Planned Harm - Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight - The New Union | News • Instagram photos - There’s no evidence linking the Las Vegas shooting to ISIS. Why did terrorists make false claim? - Steven Crowder and producer infiltrate antifa prior to Ben Shapiro event, rip media silence - #UndercoverANTIFA Fallout: Ben Shapiro Interview (Exclusive) - Evaporation Engines Could Produce More Power Than Coal, with a Huge Caveat - Scientists Create Soft And Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles For Lifelike Robots - Oreo Limited Edition Cookie Butter Sandwich Cookies, 10.7 oz * - Speculoos Cookie Butter (14.1 Oz Jar) * - Automatically Invest Your Spare Change in Cryptocurrency With This App - coinflash - Ghost Gunner 2 - Russia, US shoot for the moon with joint lunar station project (Update) - SpaceX Falcon 9

Welcome to Ep 5 of our show. Thank you for tuning in! This episode, we cover quite a few topics. From music education, to Harambe, to Sherlock and Suicide Squad, to Warhammer 40K, to your own person nuclear bomb simulator, to new aviation technology from Boeing, to our own thoughts on 9/11. And quite a few topics not mentioned. To experience the NukeMap simulator, check out this link. If you like or don't like what you hear, please let us know via our Facebook page or blogspot page, our @noacapodcast twitter handle or send us a note at our nerdsofacertainage@gmail.com address. As always, thank you for listening, tell your friends about us and have a nice day!

Historian of nuclear weapons and secrecy, Dr. Alex Wellerstein, discusses the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Specifically, the conversation focuses on the high level, and highly classified, debates over how best to employ these new weapons. From there, the episode segues into the inherent difficulties of doing historical research on classified materials and how that has shaped the historiography of the bombings. (75min) Dr. Wellerstein is the author of Restricted Data: the Nuclear Secrecy Blog, where his NUKEMAP can also be found (among many other items of note). He and his work have also appeared NPR, FOX News, and The Daily Show, as well as in The New Yorker, where his article, "Nagasaki: The Last Bomb," can be found.

In this episode, we leave our boring jobs and become Jason Borne Bureaucrats, because we watch the 1997 action-thriller, The Peacemaker. How easy is it to steal a Russian nuclear warhead? What the heck does SS-18 mean? Is it really a good idea to try and stab a plutonium core and smash it with a gun? We answer these questions and more. Apologies for the audio issues in this episode. We went mobile from our usual podcast studio and we think some of the wires got frayed in the process. The problem was identified and vaporized. There is some great content in this one so hopefully everyone will enjoy it. Before we jump in the pool to wash off our radioactive debris, we recommend reading Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's One Point Safe (Doubleday, 1997) and John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994). And have fun on NukeMap (http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/)! Other sources to check out include: -Ben Travers, "Is 'The Peacemaker' George Clooney's Calamity? Not Quite," PopMatters, September 26, 2010 (http://www.popmatters.com/review/131263-the-peacemaker/) -Janet Maslin, "The Cold War Is Back, Nuclear Bombs and All," New York Times, September 26, 1997 (http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E05E4DA1F3BF935A1575AC0A961958260) -Various press clippings on Jessica Stern's website (https://jessicasternbooks.com/about/the-peacemaker/) -Props from the movie (http://www.golive.com.au/action/action-films-1990s/the-peacemaker/nuclear-bomb-prop-from-the-peacemaker) -ABC News, "Secret Government Team Fights to Negate Nuclear Threat," June 11, 2005, (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/LooseNukes/story?id=1200558&page=1) -Mirage Gold - Official After Action Report (http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb2, February 1995, 67/16.pdf) -Robert Windrem, "Spy Satellites Enter a New Dimension," NBC News, August 8, 1998 (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077885/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/spy-satellites-enter-new-dimension/) -Federation of American Scientists, "R-36M / SS-18 SATAN," (http://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/r-36m.htm) -Pavel Podvig, "The Window of Vulnerability That Wasn’t," Russian Forces Blog, June 27, 2008 -Raphael Minder, "Even Without Detonation, 4 Hydrogen Bombs From ’66 Scar Spanish Village," New York Times, June 20, 2016 We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on Twitter @NuclearPodcast, Facebook.com/SuperCriticalPodcast, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, or www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkSAcA8FdC0yyLjxVhjWmw.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about First round of Thunderdome, product design success and failure, RHEL 7.1, urban dashboards, and the Cumulative Threat. Gunnar is horrified by Google’s audio history on him. Are you? Dave sticks his keyboard in dishwasher Fighting Unicorns are going to the FRC World Championship! Security Thunderdome results!  Vote for round two now! Raspberry Pi 2 is out and it will run Windows 10? Susceptible to intense flashes of light Almost related: Dave files a Raspbian bug Jet Blue and Virgin America are Offering In-Flight College Classes HotelsByDay Lets Travelers Book Daytime Hotel Rooms For Less Than Overnight Stays D&G This Week in Soylent Packaging: KFC Bringing Edible Coffee Cups To UK HT Uzoma Nwosu: SQRL Uber pledges to enlist 1 million female drivers by 2020 D&G Movie Plot Kit of the Week: Scientists store data inside DNA that could last MILLIONS of years Washington lawmakers want computer science to count as foreign language New “Happiness Monitor” Continuously Measures Your Mood, Reports It to Your Boss See a pic of the monitoring device here! Different kind of happiness monitor: STD Dongle D&G This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Google to close Google Code open source project hosting RHEL 7.1 is out! RHEL for Real Time RHEL Atomic MLS containers? D&G Mailbag letter from Šimon Lukašík: Check out OpenSCAP Compliance Center! Roadmap and project definition presentation Demo video by Šimon Signal 2.0 is out! History of the Urban Dashboard The cumulative cyber threat. DNI is all about it. Cutting Room Floor FIRST web page viewed by “FIRST” browser via c.1965 modem and terminal See esp the bookmark usage at 9:21 Domino Etch-a-Sketch makes Gunnar nervous BATTLESHOTS. It’s like Battleship, but with liquor Brides Throwing Cats NUKEMAP We Give Thanks Uzoma Nwosu for the SQRL pointer! Šimon Lukašík for the Mailbag letter and for all your great SCAP work!