The Science and Terror of Nuclear Weapons
Angry Planet7 Aug 2023

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 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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