The Science and Terror of Nuclear Weapons

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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.

https://joecirincione.substack.com/p/history-of-the-nuclear-world-part

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0:12.0	Well, so, we are talking with Joe Cerncioni, and I can't help it.
0:20.0	I do like a little bit of the Italian accent that I can't really do.
0:23.0	In Italian it's Chirinchone.
0:26.0	Chirichone which is fantastic.
0:29.0	I know.
0:31.0	I was just in Sicily in Chefalu which is the hometown of the Chirdenchoni.
0:36.0	Oh really? Yes, yes. So I met some distant relatives, so streets and stores named it Chirden Chone.
0:44.8	So it was a pleasure to see this unusual name, not so unusual in that town.
0:50.5	So great.
0:51.5	That is so great. Yeah, I don't know where my family would have to go to have that experience.
0:57.0	So today we're talking with you about well nukes basically nukes but and I know that you wrote something this I want to set people send people in the right place
1:15.0	You've been writing a series of sub-stack posts which is at Joe Cerncionae.
1:20.0	Substack.com and they are about the history of the bomb and also the history of nuclear policy and it's
1:29.6	terrific it comes from your book see I'm going to sell your book now too.
1:33.0	Bomb scare, the history and future of nuclear weapons.
1:37.0	Anyway, it's a great series of posts.
1:40.0	Is it just totally spurred by Oppenheimer? Is that what brought it out?
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