My Nuclear Life
Hosted by Shelly and Nathan Radke · Shelly Lesher
4.9from 58 ratings
- 116
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 58
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 20K
- YouTube views
About My Nuclear Life
On July 16, 1945, in a New Mexico desert, the Trinity Test ushered in the Nuclear Age. No other piece of technology has penetrated the American consciousness like the nuclear bomb and found a place in everything from culture to medicine. This podcast explores how nuclear science has impacted and changed our world in both beneficial and destructive ways. We explore the intersection of nuclear science and society using interviews with historians, policymakers, experts in their fields, and first-hand accounts to weave a picture of your nuclear life.
- Publisher
- Shelly Lesher
- Category
- history · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 116 episodes have a transcript.
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day & Able Archer (1983)
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
1983 - The Year of Living Dangerously
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Project Paperclip | Brian Crim
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day & Able Archer (1983)
Published 26 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Does England know, by the way, that the missiles are going to the United States, not to England? Because England's, of course, much closer. So then they send out their missiles. France sends it. You know, and there we are. It's the end of the world. But of course it wasn't because we're here. So I'll just solve this mystery about what actually happened and also maybe make us even more afraid about, you know, giving this decision power over to something like AI was that there were high altitude clouds, I think somewhere around North Dakota. And these clouds just so happened just on that day, just by accident to refract sunlight into the satellite and thereby triggering a false alarm or a false positive, I guess, suggesting that it's actually a missile. […]
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- Lee Kuhnle
- Brian Crim
- Ann Finkbeiner
- Nathan
- Lee
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- YouTube views
- 19,764
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 43 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 15 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 90
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Who hosts My Nuclear Life?
Shelly and Nathan Radke host the show. Published by Shelly Lesher.
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