Aug 4 • 43M

The Science and Terror of Nuclear Weapons

Upgrade to listen

Appears in this episode

Matthew Gault
Conversations about conflict on an angry planet.
Episode details
Comments
Los Alamos National Laboratory photo.

Joe Cirincione is back on the podcast this week to walk us through the science of nuclear weapons and give us his preliminary thoughts on Oppenheimer.

Cirincione is a national security analyst and author with over 40 years of experience. He’s been a congressional staffer, a program director, a philanthropist, an advisor the the State Department and three presidential campaigns. Now, he writes at a substack.

He’s recently completed a six part series detaling the history of the nuclear world. Get started on it by clicking below.

Strategy & History
History of the Nuclear World, Part I
To help you prepare for the opening of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, I am publishing a nuclear history primer. It will be a series of five articles adopted from my book, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. This short series will provide you with a summary of the history, physics, strategy and politics that combine…
Read more
2 months ago · 18 likes · 3 comments · Joe Cirincione

This episode is for paid subscribers