My Nuclear Life

By Shelly LesherTechnology History Physics

My Nuclear Life episodes

March 08, 2022 Nuclear Threat Reduction & Current Events with Matthias Grosse Perdekamp
Special episode on reducing nuclear threat with Prof. Matthias Grosse Perdekamp. Recorded when Russia was invading Ukraine.
1 hr
February 22, 2022 Radium & Marie Curie go Goth Rock with Charming Disaster
Today's episode features the musical duo Charming Disaster. They discuss the process of writing their new album based on the life of Marie Curie and the element she discovered, stories that did not make it into their songs, and ways that this album should sound familiar to fans but is also a departure from their usual writing style. Also, Elia & Jeff dispel Shelly's notion of "Goth Rock".

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42 min
February 17, 2022 Charming Disaster Bonus Material
25 min
January 25, 2022 Using nuclear science to understand cultural heritage with Michael Wiescher
What role does nuclear science play in understanding art and culture? Michael Wiescher from The University of Notre Dame explains.

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54 min
January 13, 2022 Feb 2022 Bonus Episode
21 min
January 06, 2022 Should Khrushchev receive story credit for Dr. Strangelove? With Nathan and Lee from The UnCover Up
Nathan Radke and Lee Kuhnle from The UnCover Up podcast discuss Dr. Strangelove with Shelly and introduce an interesting conspiracy theory. Lee poses a question on if Nikita Khrushchev should receive story credit for the plot of the movie and backs it up with some interesting history of who could launch a nuclear attack. Wait - did Stanley Kubrick accidentally get it right?

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40 min
January 04, 2022 The movie with the finest ending: Failsafe (1964) with Nathan & Lee from The UnCover Up
Nathan Radke and Lee Kuhnle from The UnCover Up podcast discuss Failsafe (1964) with Shelly and compare it to Dr. Strangelove. Find out what character made Lee want to quit watching Failsafe, who the gang thinks would have a better chance at surviving a nuclear exchange: file clerks or prisoners, and what Shelly wants etched on her tombstone.

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47 min
December 28, 2021 What's with all the Nuclear Movies? With Nathan & Lee from The UnCover Up
Nathan and Lee from the UnCover Up podcast join today’s conversation in discussing their favorite nuclear movies spanning over the decades, involving wars, nuclear disasters, and so much more! Amongst the 100’s of movies, they’ll be touching on just a sampling—this is a conversation you won’t want to miss!
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1 hr 1 min
November 30, 2021 Using radiation as a poison. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko with Pete Burgess
In this episode Pete Burgess discusses the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian spy who defected to the UK. Why is polonium-210 a good poison? How do you make it? Why wasn’t the public scared it could happen to them? All of those questions and more are answered in this exciting episode.

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54 min
November 29, 2021 December bonus content
21 min

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On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in…