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My Nuclear Life — 115 episodes

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1983 - The Year of Living Dangerously

2

Project Paperclip | Brian Crim

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The JASONS | Ann Finkbeiner

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Not Dead Yet | Conspiracy Theory with Uncover Up

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The "best" Doomsday Devices | The Uncover Up

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The bomber will always get through | Nathan Radke

7

(New Intro) Challenger Explosion | Adam Higginbotham

8

Black holes, string theory, and public policy | Jim Gates (Sylvester James Gates)

9

How much time does the US need to restart nuclear testing? | Hans Kristensen

10

House of Dynamite | Lee and Nathan

11

HItler and the Bomb | Mark Walker

12

Hidden in plain sight. The Greenbrier Bunker | Deanna Hylton

13

The Atomic Pilgrim | James Patrick Thomas

14

The ethics of human radiation experiments | The Uncover Up

15

Day in the Life of a Nuclear Physicist | Kelly Chipps

16

Cold War Human Radiation Experiments | Eileen Welsome

17

Plutonium Files Bonus Episode

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Cold War Kids | Ann Kordas

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Bonus - Challenger

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Nuclear Christmas List with Kelly Chipps

21

(rerelease) Jimmy Carter - with Jonathan Alter

22

Was the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion inevitable? with Adam Higginbotham

23

Ray Cats Nuke the Moon

24

The return of Matt Caplan - Twelve Thousand Bombs

25

Threads turns 40 | Bob Mielke

26

Announcement - Contest & Free Documentary Premiere

27

The Uranium Show with Lucy Santos

28

What should we do with all the ray cats? with Matt Caplan

29

The journey of a citizen scientist with Frank von Hippel

30

The Black Sea Experiment: Data taking and legacy

31

Prelude to the Black Sea Experiment: Soviet Scientists Reach Out

32

Black Sea Bonus Episode

33

Adventures in Nuclear Risk Reduction - Georgia Pt 2

34

Adventures in Nuclear Risk Reduction - Georgia Pt 1

35

The new face of the nuclear nerd - Miss America (2023) Grace Stanke

36

Bonus Episode on Georgia

37

Understanding Edward Teller with Istvan Hargittai

38

For the love of lasers with Donna Strickland

39

Are radiation limits based on a lie? with Ed Calabrese

40

How to identify Manhattan Project Plutonium with Cody Folden

41

Diefenbunker Bonus

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Trying to stay alive at the Diefenbunker with Nathan Radke & Lee Kuhnle

43

J. Robert Oppenheimer with Kai Bird

44

Fetter & Simpson Bonus episode

45

The 3rd Nuclear Age with Ankit Panda

46

The Origin of the Elements with Artemis Spyrou

47

NIF fusion was a breakthrough, but what kind? with Bob Rosner

48

Witnessing the Starfish Prime nuclear test with Jim Burkhart

49

Radon Bonus (March)

50

Solving the solar neutrino problem with Nobel Laureate Art McDonald

51

Bonus - Marc & Garrett

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Is this the year NORAD shoots down Santa? With Martin Pfeiffer

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NORAD Tracks Santa - Full Episode - BONUS

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Mom, I'm scared, come pick me up! Students speak out.

55

US Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Posture Review with Steve Fetter

56

Quarky News: La Crosse Fallout Shelters

57

Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with Dominik & Lara from ChernobylX

58

The Baby Tooth Study 2.0 with Marc Weisskopf

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St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey with Nina Gilden Seavey

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What if a nuclear engineer was elected US President? with Jonathan Alter

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More impressive info on Jimmy Carter

62

July 2022 Bonus - Garrett, Burgess

63

How did the U.S. Government plan for nuclear war without you? with Garrett Graff

64

Exploring the end of the world with nuclear literature and Daniel Cordle

65

Nuclear Literature - Oppenheimer, The Super, and The Cold War

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Shipbuilding with the precision of a watchmaker - ITER with Michael Loughlin

67

Can Wargaming teach ethics? With John Emery

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Drones, Computers & Nuclear Modernization with John Emery

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Chernobyl Bonus Episode

70

Nuclear Threat Reduction & Current Events with Matthias Grosse Perdekamp

71

Radium & Marie Curie go Goth Rock with Charming Disaster

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Charming Disaster Bonus Material

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Using nuclear science to understand cultural heritage with Michael Wiescher

74

Feb 2022 Bonus Episode

75

Should Khrushchev receive story credit for Dr. Strangelove? With Nathan and Lee from The UnCover Up

76

The movie with the finest ending: Failsafe (1964) with Nathan & Lee from The UnCover Up

77

What's with all the Nuclear Movies? With Nathan & Lee from The UnCover Up

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Using radiation as a poison. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko with Pete Burgess

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December bonus content

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How the Norwegians & British ended the Nazi atomic bomb program with Neal Bascomb

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November Bonus Show

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Announcement & Anniversary Give Away

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Bonus - Tucker/Nicholas

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Finger on the Button: Life as a Cold War Missileer with Col. (Ret.) Charles G. Simpson

85

Scientists as activists, human rights, and ethics with Don Howard

86

R.Franklin Bonus

87

History of early computing with Thomas Haigh

88

Pfeiffer Bonus #2

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The connection between nuclear disarmament, peace, and black freedom with Vincent Intondi

90

Nuking the Moon and other Shenanigans with The Uncover Up

91

The impact of the Cold War on LIGO with Tiffany Nichols

92

Announcement: My Nuclear Life / The UncoverUp Crossover

93

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster with Adam Higginbotham

94

Death by control rod: The story of SL1 with Todd Tucker

95

How to restart a nuclear reactor in Japan after the Fukushima disaster with Dreux Richard

96

Pfeiffer Bonus #1 - Nuclear Launch Sequence & Nuclear Families

97

Soviet bone records, Tom Lehrer, and music for your nuclear protest with Tim & Joanna Smolko

98

Deep beneath the surface: Innovating nuclear waste disposal with Elizabeth Muller

99

Hanford Lab Pt. 2: How the DOE got into the museum business with Robert Franklin

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Hanford Lab Pt. 1: The triumph of the engineer with Robert Franklin

101

Quarky News: Volk Field 1962

102

Radium: Luxurious, Beautiful, Expensive, and Modern with Lucy Santos

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Radium Bonus

104

Nuclear newsletters, queer theory, and Freedom of Information with Martin Pfeiffer

105

ONeil and Slaughter Bonus

106

Reed Bonus Episode No. 2

107

The War Science Won? Building the bomb, ingenuity, and politics with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 3)

108

Reed Bonus Episode No. 1

109

How to turn the US into a factory: Beer in Hanford, Silver from Fort Knox, and PO Box 1663 with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 2)

110

How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

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Sunshine in a bottle. The origins of using radiation as a modern cancer treatment with Aimee Slaughter

112

Thwarting nuclear ambitions with sanctions: Iran, North Korea, and ... Sweden? with Richard Nephew

113

How do you celebrate Alaska Statehood? Nuke them a harbor with Dan O'Neill

114

Richard Rhodes discusses Szilard, Teller, & Oppenheimer

115

Saving the world with nuclear energy, one microreactor at a time with Leslie Dewan