Super Critical Podcast

In this episode, we teamed up to discuss the portrayal of nuclear weapons in the 2016 superhero movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Just how easy is it to nuke a moving target in space? Do nukes still pack a punch for today’s movie audiences? Why can’t Superman and Batman just talk about their feelings? Tim and Joel answer these questions and more.

This is the fifth in our Mini-Nuke episode series, where we overthink movies with not enough nuclear nonsense for a full-sized episode but nonetheless demand over thinking. For the short nuke scene discussed in the movie, watch it on YouTube here: https://goo.gl/wKDQnt

Before we recharged our alien cells using solar radiation and/or sunflowers, we recommended checking out:

-Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, 1986

-Matthew Gault, “How the U.S. Military Could Kill Superman

Kryptonite… and Lots of Nukes,” WarIsBoring.com, May 31, 2016

-300, Legendary Pictures, 2007

Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. 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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this episode, we built a Death Star and made Alderaan pay for it! While waiting for the check to clear, we overanalyzed the Death Star as a stand-in for nuclear weapons throughout the Star Wars movies but especially in Rogue One (2016). How much did the franchise borrow nuclear weapon imagery? What similarities are there in the strategies for using either nuclear weapons or Death Stars? Will the Empire ever consider investing its resources more into galactic poverty reduction and less into overly vulnerable battle stations? Tim and Joel answer these questions and more.

We also play a round of the classic game: Is This a Star Wars Name or Someone Who Invented Nuclear Weapons? (Trademark pending…)

Before we go rogue, we recommend reading:

-Tim Westmyer, “Death Star: Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 4, 2017

-Cass Sunstein, The World According to Star Wars (2016)

-Chris Taylor, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe (2015)

Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. 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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this episode, we prepared for Judgment Day by watching all of the Terminator movies (1984-2015/forever). How did the franchise end up with some of the most iconic imagery of nuclear weapon use? Should we be worried about artificial intelligence taking over our nuclear command and control systems? Why does Skynet seem to put out more models of terminator than Apple does iPhones? Tim, Joel, and special guest Alex answer these questions and more.

Before we say “hasta la vista… baby,” we recommend reading:

-Jerome Shapiro, Atomic Bomb Cinema, 2001

-Bruce Blair, Strategic Command and Control, 1985 and The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War, 1993

-Joe McGovern, “‘The Terminator’ at 30: An Oral History,” Entertainment Weekly, July 17, 2014

Check out these resources and more on our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com.

Special thanks to Alicia Dressman (@thedelphivision) for suggesting the episode hook with the quote by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin.

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this episode, we had a lot of time on our hand after being marooned on another planet, so we watched the 2015 science fiction/comedy The Martian. How dangerous are plutonium fueled Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators? Does cosmic radiation doom Matt Damon life on Mars? Why does every Mars movie need an impossible sandstorm? Tim and special guest host Gabe answer these questions and more. We also hear from Chris Mariasola who breaks down the maritime/space law in the movie for us.

This is the fourth in our Mini-Nuke episode series, where we find movies that do not have enough nuclear nonsense for a full-sized episode but nonetheless demand over thinking.

Before we fulfill our Iron Man fantasies, we recommend checking out:

- Timothy Jorgensen, Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation (Princeton Press, 2016)

-the documentary “To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion,” BBC, 2003, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoLcJuBtOw

-George Dyson, Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (Henry Holt and Co, 2002)

-Marshall Savage, The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps (Little, Brown and Company, 1992)

Also check out the sources below to learn more (you can also access these links on our SoundCloud and Facebook pages):

-Chris Marisola, Lawfareblog.com, https://lawfareblog.com/contributors/cmirasola

-Rhett Allain, “The Science in The Martian Isn’t Perfect, but That’s Okay,” Wired, September 23, 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/09/science-martian-isnt-perfect-thats-ok/

-Rhett Allain, “How That Spinning Spacecraft From The Martian Would Work,” Wired, August 25, 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/08/spinning-spacecraft-martian-work/

- Sarah Fecht, “Realism Makes ‘The Martian’ One of the Greatest Sci-Fi Films of All Time,” Popular Science, September 30, 2015, http://www.popsci.com/realism-makes-martian-one-greatest-sci-fi-films-all-time

-“ Sandstorms, Explosions, Potatoes, Oh My: 'Martian' Takes Its Science Seriously,” NPR, September 27, 2015, http://www.npr.org/2015/09/27/443192327/sandstorms-explosions-potatoes-oh-my-martian-takes-its-science-seriously

-Rod Adams, “‘The Martian’s’ RTG Science Includes Jarring Errors,” Atomic Insights, July 6, 2013, http://atomicinsights.com/martians-rtg-science-errors/

-Ron Turner, “The Radiation Threat to ‘The Martian,’” ANSER, 2015, http://www.anser.org/docs/The_Radiation_Threat_to_the_Martian.pdf

-Terry Dunn, “Dissecting the Technology of 'The Martian': Electrical Power,” Tested.com, September 9, 2015, http://www.tested.com/science/540836-dissecting-technology-martian-electrical-power/

-“The Science Behind 'The Martian' - Staying Warm on Mars,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwhMUfbuh0

-Gary L. Bennett, “Review: The Martian,” Federation of Scientists, 2015, https://fas.org/nuke/space/martian.pdf

-Dave Mosher, “NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration,” Wired, September 19, 2013, https://www.wired.com/2013/09/plutonium-238-problem/

-Project Orion, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

-Steve Spaleta, “Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion – 1950s Tests (video), Space.com, December 14, 2014, http://www.space.com/28009-project-orion-nuclear-propulsion-1950s-tests-unclassified-video.html

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this episode, we took advantage of the new world-wide federal holiday to watch the sci-fi action blockbuster Independence Day (the good one from 1996). How effective are nuclear weapons against 15 mile wide spaceships? Are aliens keeping tabs on Earth’s nuclear stockpiles? How did Jeff Goldblum write a computer virus that works on alien technology? Tim and Joel answer these questions and more.

Before Elvis left the building, we recommend reading

-Michael Rogin, Independence Day, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Enola Gay, (British Film Institute, 1998) http://www.worldcat.org/title/independence-day-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-enola-gay/oclc/39547508

-James Harris, “The Oral History of the President’s Speech in ‘Independence Day,’” Complex Media, June 23, 2016, http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/06/presidents-speech-in-independence-day-oral-history

-Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon (Crown publishers, 2014)

Also check out the sources below to learn more (you can also access these links on our SoundCloud page):

-Robert Kennedy, “A Rocket Scientist’s Reaction to Independence Day,” The Ultimax Group White Paper, 1996 http://www.ultimax.com/whitepapers/1996_3.html

-Kelly Fonda, ““You Want to Blow Up the White House?”: An Oral History of the Film Independence Day, We Minored in Film, April 28, 2015, https://weminoredinfilm.com/2015/04/28/you-want-to-blow-up-the-white-house-an-oral-history-of-the-film-independence-day/

-Janet Burns, “16 Earth-Shattering Facts About ‘Independence Day,’” MentalFloss, July 3, 2016, http://mentalfloss.com/article/76231/16-earth-shattering-facts-about-independence-day

-Joe Skrebels, “Independence Day Director Roland Emmerich Mocks Marvel Movies,” IGN, June 28, 2016, http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/20/independence-day-director-roland-emmerich-mocks-marvel-movies

-ID4 Deleted Scenes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rf3eB5bFe4

-U.S. Air Force Capt. Robert Salas - UFO's Are Real, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbhq4P_sZI

-Eric Julien, The Iron Skeptic, http://www.theironskeptic.com/articles/julien/julien.htm

-Kim Zetter, “An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World’s First Digital Weapon,” Wired, November 3, 2014, https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/

-Andrew Futter, “The Dangers of Using Cyberattacks to Counter Nuclear Threats,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2016, https://www.armscontrol.org/ACT/2016_07/Features/The-Dangers-of-Using-Cyberattacks-to-Counter-Nuclear-Threats

-“'Independence Day' Producer Finally Explains Infamously Inept Hacking Scene,” Yahoo Movies, December 8, 2014, https://www.yahoo.com/movies/independence-day-producer-explains-hacking-scene-104676447332.html

-Jakob Nielson, “Excessive Interoperability in Independence Day,” NN Group, December 18, 2006, https://www.nngroup.com/articles/independence-day-interoperability/

-Russ Wellen, “Alienating Aliens: Do Nukes Make Them Go Ballistic?,” HuffingtonPost, May 25, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russ-wellen/alienating-aliens-do-nuke_b_414394.html

-Atomic Bomb Test – Survival Towns, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr76hNngqts

-Teapot Apple 2 Nuclear Test, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJXZjIp8OA

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

Thanks to bensound.com for some of the background music used in this episode.

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In this episode, we got political and watched the infamous “Daisy” commercial run by the Lyndon Johnson for President campaign against Sen. Barry Goldwater in 1964. What was it like before political ads went so negative? Why was this ad so creepy and yet so effective in portraying the country’s nuclear anxieties? Why didn’t this child actor win an Oscar? Tim and Joel answer these questions and more.

Before we pick off the last petal on our flower, we recommend reading

-Robert Mann, Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad that Changed Politics Forever (LSU Press, 2011)

-Bombs Away, documentary by University of Virginia Center for Politics, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDe9XmbglE

Also, go vote! Find out where here: https://www.rockthevote.com/get-informed/elections/find-your-polling-place/

Also check out the sources below to learn more (you can also access these links on our SoundCloud page):

-Clinton Campaign, “Silo,” October 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lha5Gk-yCbw

-Clinton Campaign, “Daisy Ad,” October 31, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNKAlt-mrWM

-Johnson Campaign, “Peace, Little Girl,” September 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k

-Johnson Campaign, “Ice Cream Girl,” September 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VzZQGWOqA

-Johnson Campaign, “Atomic Bomb – Test Ban,” 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1B2re9Tz_8

-Johnson Campaign, “Pregnant Lady,” 1964, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUO0PqJMsTg

-Zack Beauchamp, “The Clinton team found the star of the most famous political ad in history to pound Trump,” VOX, October 31, 2016, http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/31/13477678/clinton-ad-daisy

-Robert Mann, “‘How the “Daisy” Ad Changed Everything About Political Advertising,”

Smithsonian, April 13, 2016, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-daisy-ad-changed-everything-about-political-advertising-180958741/?no-ist

-Robert Mann and Zack Stanton, “LBJ’s Ad Men: Here’s How Clinton can Beat Trump,” Politico, May 29, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/2016-johnson-lbj-campaign-1964-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-political-ads-daisy-213925

-Julian Zelier, “Return of the 'Daisy' ad can't revive politics of the 1960s,” CNN, October 31, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/31/opinions/clinton-daisy-girl-cant-bring-back-1960s-zelizer/

-Barry Goldwater, Remarks on Senate Floor on LTBT, September 19, 1963, http://wopsr.net/goldwater-on-limited-nuclear-test-ban-treaty/

-Ross Rosenbaum, “An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age,” Slate, February 28, 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/an_unsung_hero_of_the_nuclear_age.single.html

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this episode, we flipped over the Monopoly board to make room to play the dark comedy Nuclear War Card Game from 1965. Does having a background in nuclear policy help win a card game about nuclear war? Will the horrors and intensity of nuclear weapons translate to a card game? Can three loving couples survive three hours of pretending to nuke each other? Tim and his elite team of board game competitors answer these questions and more.

Before we decided this game was too dark and switched to playing Candy Land, we recommend checking out the sources below about the unique and fun history of the Nuclear War Card Game (you can also access these links on our SoundCloud page).

-Photos of the game and the cards at “Nuclear War,” Flying Buffalo, http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/nucwar.htm

-“Nuclear War Card Game,” BoardGameGeek.com, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/713/nuclear-war

-Dennis McLellan, “Nuclear War Game Bombs Its Way to Success: Fantasy Card Competition Breeds Some Fallout From the Controversial Topic,” Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1986, http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-18/news/vw-442_1_nuclear-war-card-game

- Lana Polansky, “Nuclear War: A Game of Chance,” Paste, October 14, 2014, https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/10/nuclear-war-a-game-of-chance.html

- Matt Keeley, “ ‘Nuclear War’ Turns 50: A Fun Game About Human Extinction,” UnicornBooty, October 26, 2015, https://unicornbooty.com/nuclear-war-turns-50-a-fun-game-about-human-extinction/

-“MPs Seek Ban on Nuclear War Board Game Described as ‘Disgusting and Offensive,’” Ottawa Citizen, March 3, 1984, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19840303&id=H68yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Te8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1472,1208483

-“Nuclear War,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)

Thanks to Douglas Malewicki for inventing the game and for Flying Buffalo for publishing it!

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, [email protected], and YouTube.

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In this special episode, we venture out of our cozy fallout bunker to watch the 1999 romantic comedy, Blast from the Past.

This is the second in our new series within the podcast -- Mini-Nuke episodes -- where we find movies that do not have enough nuclear nonsense for a full-sized episode but nonetheless demand over analyzation.

Tim and a special guest -- his sister, Diana -- delve into the history and use fallout shelters. Ranging from the overkill shelter in the movie to the more modest versions you'd find in backyards during the Cold War, this episode tells you everything you need to know to protect yourself from radioactive fallout -- just not what to do if you get stuck in one for decades.

Photos of Tim's trip down into a fallout shelter are up on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.545103975696196.1073741829.437574689782459&type=1&l=be98d22e4f

Before your fallout shelter doors automatically lock for 35 years, be sure to check out these sources:

-James Daniel, "Survive the Apocalypse in Style," DailyMail, September 6, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414497/Most-luxurious-bunker--The-1970s-Cold-War-Era-Home-built-26-feet-underground.html

-Eli Segall, "Mysterious group buys underground doomsday house in Las Vegas," VegasInc, April 4, 2014, http://vegasinc.com/news/2014/apr/04/mysterious-group-buys-underground-doomsday-house-l/

-Andrew Taylor, "Underground home was built as Cold War-era hideaway,"

Review Journal, June 20, 2013, http://www.reviewjournal.com/view/downtown/underground-home-was-built-cold-war-era-hideaway

-"Underground Homes," New York World's Fair, 1964, https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidelevine/sets/72157618339078546/with/3539303026/

-Life Magazine, "How You Can Survive Fallout," September 15, 1961, https://books.google.com/books?id=nVQEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=life+magazine+fallout+1961&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz2eGv7o3PAhVFND4KHS4ZCXcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

-F-86 Nuclear Sabre, http://oppositelock.kinja.com/f-86f-nuclear-sabre-215665108

-Janet Maslin, "After Decades in a Bomb Shelter, a Family Learns the Only Fallout Is Social," New York Times, February 12, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9406E0DB103AF931A25751C0A96F958260

-"Blast from the Past: Building Elden Underground," CinemaReview, http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=471

-UndergroundBombShelter.com, http://undergroundbombshelter.com/radiation-fallout.htm

-Civil Defense Museum, http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/cdmuseum2/shelter.html

-David Dunlap, "Civil Defense Logo Dies at 67, and Some Mourn Its Passing," New York Times, December 1, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/washington/01civil.html?_r=0

We aim to have at least one new full-sized episode every month and Mini-Nuke episodes on a regular basis. 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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, Facebook, [email protected], or YouTube.

Enjoy!

In this special episode, we suppress our emotional sides and explore the logic behind the 2016 science fiction adventure movie, Star Trek Beyond. This is the first in our new series within the podcast -- Mini-Nuke episodes -- where we find movies that do not have enough nuclear nonsense for a full-sized episode but nonetheless warrant some over analyzation.

We go into needless detail about Spock's radioactive jewelry gift to Uhura, which also doubles as a handy tracking device. This plot device has real life inspiration in Trinitite or atomsite glass, a glass byproduct of nuclear detonations in the desert that were the latest fashion trend before they started giving people nasty burns.

Before we jump on ebay looking for our own atomic jewelry, be sure to check out these sources:

-Dan Carlson, "The Story of Vokaya: Beyond a Fan’s Wildest Dreams," Star Trek Minutiae, July 29, 2016, http://www.st-minutiae.com/cafe/archives/2016/07/vokaya.html

-Vokaya, Memory Alpha, http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Vokaya

-Mitch Higgins, "Radioactivity of Trinitite," YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISzSUBkaC8

-Steven L. Kay, "Trinitite Varieties," Nuclearon, http://www.radiochemistry.org/documents/pdf/trinitite_nuclearon_061608.pdf

-Nelson Eby et. al., "Trinitite—the atomic rock," Geology Today, Vol 26 no. 5, September/October 2010, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2010.00767.x/abstract

-Marion Fasel, "Exclusive: Jewelry Details for Star Trek Beyond," The Adventurine, http://theadventurine.com/culture/movies/exclusive-jewelry-details-for-star-trek-beyond/

Thanks to Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) and Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) for the following sources:

-"Atomic Jewelry," The American Horologist magazine, May 1946, http://elgintime.blogspot.com/2014/12/atomic-jewelry.html?m=1

-Jon Michaud, "James Acord, Alchemist for the Nuclear Age,"

The New Yorker, JANUARY 19, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/postscript-james-acord-alchemist-for-the-nuclear-age

-Advert for 1940s Atomsite Jewelry, https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/da/8e/9f/da8e9ffcd802f6f0b8200a8c9e03c3ac.jpg

We aim to have at least one new full-sized episode every month and Mini-Nuke episodes on a regular basis. 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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, Facebook, [email protected], or YouTube.

Enjoy!

In this episode, we maxed out our conference call lines while debating the 1964 drama-thriller movie, Fail-Safe. What happens when you can't recall your own nuclear bombers en route to Moscow? How many air planes can you knock out of the sky with a nuclear bomb? How do you convince your enemy that accidents -- even nuclear ones -- do happen? The podcast hosts and special guest/TCM guru Victoria answer these questions and more.

Before our podcast's phone line melted in a fireball, we recommended reading L. Douglas Keeney, 15 Minutes: General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation (St. Martin's Griffin, 2012) and two articles at the National Security Archive (see links below).

Other sources to check out include -- you can also access these links on our SoundCloud page:

-William Burr, "The Air Force versus Hollywood," National Security Archive, January 15, 2010, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb304/index.htm

-Christopher Bright, "Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show," National Security Archive, November 16, 2010, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb332/

-Photos of SAC HQ, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/gallery/image04.htm, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/gallery/image03.htm, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/gallery/image02.htm

-Steve Weintz, "Dreaming of Genie, America's Anti-Aircraft Nuke," War is Boring, March 2, 2014, https://warisboring.com/dreaming-of-genie-americas-anti-aircraft-nuke-df20fe88facd#.clto29h6f

-Bob Raichle, Alaska's Cold War Nuclear Shield," Nike Historical Society, 2012, http://nikemissile.org/ColdWar/AlaskaColdWar/alaska_cold_war.shtml

-Richard Oulahan, "Doomsday is Better as a Farce," LIFE, October 30, 1964, https://books.google.com/books?id=o0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=true

-Ari Schulman, "Doomsday Machines: Fail-Safe was Flop, but Much Smarter about Nuclear War than Dr. Strangelove," Slate, October 7, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/10/fail_safe_50th_anniversary_sidney_lumet_s_nuclear_war_movie_is_better_than.html

-Sharon Ghamari, Review of Technical Accuracy in Fail-Safe, Strategy Page, https://www.strategypage.com/moviereviews/default.asp?target=Fail%20Safe

-"Revisiting Fail-Safe," Fail-Safe Special Edition DVD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdz2HXCgig

-B-58 Hustler, Federation of American Scientists, May 29, 1997, http://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-58.htm

-Wm. Robert Johnston, MULTIMEGATON WEAPONS: The Largest Nuclear Weapons, April 6, 2009, http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/multimeg.html#U1

-Stiletto, Transformers Wiki, http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stiletto_(BW)

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, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, Facebook, [email protected], or YouTube.

Enjoy!