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...

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...

Jim Walsh, a Senior Research Associate at MIT, breaks down the “History of the Nukes in 5 Parts,” from 1945 to the present. He also talks about visiting forbidden countries, which can lead to unusual encounters – like almost getting deported while walking through an airport in Iran for no reason,...