Getting Bombed is an unscripted digital series featuring casual conversations with renown experts about the existential threats that keep them up at night while they enjoy their favorite drink and chat about history, policy, and science with a comedic host. Fun, quirky, and informative, the series leverages the personalities and insider knowledge of experts on everything from nuclear weapons and cyberwarfare to artificial intelligence and national security. The mission: to demystify the extraordinary—and largely untold—stories of our past, present, and future. And, you know, try to take the...
Nuclear weapons expert Paul Carroll talks about what it means to be Born (not “Bourne”) Classified, revisits horrifying near-misses in which we almost accidentally blew up parts of the United States (what you don’t know can hurt you!), and discusses his visit to an abandoned test site in the...
Published 02/29/20
Yasmeen Silva, a nuclear policy advocate, relates a story about feminist Carol Cohn, who infiltrated a “nuclear boys club” in the 1980s, which reinforced her notion of nuclear weapons as phallic representations of toxic masculinity. Silva also relates a personal story about the panic that ensued...
Published 02/23/20