• Twelve Thousand Bombs

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Twelve Thousand Bombs

By: WGLT
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  • WGLT’s Twelve Thousand Bombs podcast features conversations with leading scholars and policy advocates on the real and hypothetical impacts of nuclear war. Presented in partnership with Illinois State University physics professor Matt Caplan and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
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Physics Political Science
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Episodes
  • Episode 7 - Peace is a process we have to earn

    Episode 7 - Peace is a process we have to earn
    Oct 31 2024

    On the heels of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear advocacy group Nihon Hidankyō, Naomi Satoh returns to discuss her in-progress illustrated novel based on personal and familial oral histories gathered from survivors of the 1945 bombings over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    26 mins
  • Episode 6 - With nuclear fusion, the future of clean energy is bright. It's also made world annihilation more possible

    Episode 6 - With nuclear fusion, the future of clean energy is bright. It's also made world annihilation more possible
    Oct 24 2024

    Since the 1970s, physicists have worked on developing nuclear fusion as a clean, carbon-free, inexhaustible fuel source. Essentially building a big star on Earth, the United States and other nuclear powers have also used the technology to make nuclear weapons exponentially more powerful. Princeton physicist Stewart Prager joins the podcast to talk about the intersection between nuclear fusion, energy production and arms control.

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    37 mins
  • Episode 5 - Next-gen astrophysicists on the imposing threat of nuclear war—and why not voting in 2024 is not an option

    Episode 5 - Next-gen astrophysicists on the imposing threat of nuclear war—and why not voting in 2024 is not an option
    Oct 16 2024

    Three astrophysicists in training discuss how they're processing the science, policy and politics of nuclear weapons leading up to the 2024 election.

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    36 mins

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