The Science and Terror of Nuclear Weapons
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 auth...
7 Aug 202342min
What Makes 'Oppenheimer' Great and Why It Sucks
Freelance journalist Kelsey Atherton joins Angry Planet to talk about Oppenheimer. The movie does a good, but not perfect, job with history and tends toward mythmaking. Matthew loved it and Atherton h...
28 Jul 20231h 11min
The Support System That Keeps Ukraine Going
When you’re talking about disasters, natural and manmade, it’s always the first responders—soldiers, police, EMTs—who get all the credit. But what about the people who not only support the first respo...
18 Jul 202342min
TEASER: Inside Putin's Medieval Court
On this subscribers only episode of Angry Planet, Kremlin expert Mark Galeotti comes on to walk us through the military and political machinations of Russia’s “adhocracy.” According to Galeotti, Russi...
10 Jul 202322min
A Closer Look at the Wagner Mutiny
Nobody outside of the Kremlin—and maybe inside the Kremlin, too—knows exactly what happened over the last weekend. We do know that Yevgeny Prigozhin led something that looked like a rebellion against ...
3 Jul 202344min
The Human Stories Behind the Counteroffensive
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is well under way. One of the best places to go to get stories and reporting about what’s happening is counteroffensive.news, a substack run by former U.S. Army Medic and NP...
26 Jun 202340min
Teaser: Why Erdogan Feels Like Forever
The results of Turkey's presidential election are finally in and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had been forced into a runoff against his chief opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, gets to keep his job as leader ...
5 Jun 20237min
World War II Is Still Killing People in the Pacific
World War II is still killing people. Unexploded ordnance, the remnants of globe spanning conflict, litters the fields of Europe and the waters of the Pacific. The world spends a lot of money and time...
30 Mai 202342min
