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When Things Went Nuclear

When Things Went Nuclear

Understanding the atomic threat and the race for nuclear power

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This collection takes a closer look at nuclear weapons of mass destruction and their long-term legacy. By examining catastrophic historical events and their enduring physical and psychological effects on their victims, it debunks political tales of nuclear power's safety and reliability, and shows us that we might just be one tiny accident or a natural disaster away from losing our lives, cities, and the promise of a future.

When Things Went Nuclear

Understanding the atomic threat and the race for nuclear power

Fukushima
Fukushima
David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan and the Union of Concerned Scientists
The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
15 min4.0
A Tsunami of Misery
A Tsunami of Misery
Narrated by Tim Harford
What we can learn about the true social price of disaster from scientists studying the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown
15 min4.7
Atomic Accidents
Atomic Accidents
James Mahaffey
A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
14 min4.1
The Doomsday Machine
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
20 min4.4
Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
27 min4.6
Command and Control
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
27 min4.8
Killing the Rising Sun
Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
How America Vanquished World War II Japan
18 min4.3

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