At the Brink
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At the Brink
A podcast about the dangers we face from nuclear weapons, and the stories of those who are fighting to protect us.
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Scaling the Mountain: The Quest for a Nuclear-free World
At the start of the 21st century, several groups began efforts aiming not just to control nuclear weapons but to eliminate them altogether. The so-cal...
Nuclear Freeze: A Walk in the Park
Against the backdrop of heightened Cold War anxieties, the 1980s bore witness to a remarkable phenomenon: the Nuclear Freeze protest movement. From bu...
Marshall Islands: Paradise Interrupted
From 1946 through 1958, the US detonated 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, with an explosive force equal to 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day fo...
Atomic Veterans: Training for the Final War
During the era of atmospheric nuclear testing, hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were made to participate in nuclear tests to prepare for f...
Downwinders Part 2: Fatal Harvest
In this episode, we look at the long-term impact of nuclear testing on the American citizens it was supposed to protect, and the efforts of victims to...
Downwinders Part 1: The Ultimate Patriots
In the race to develop the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer's Trinity test inadvertently exposed thousands of unsuspecting American citizens to toxic radioact...
Introducing Season 2
With the Trinity Test, J. Robert Oppenheimer ushered in the atomic age, and a decade-long campaign of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing. In Season 2 of...
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From Hope to Hostility: US Relations With Putin's Russia [Special Episode]
When the Cold War ended in 1992, there was great hope for the newly formed Russian Federation. But following a series of major economic problems, and...
Did Ukraine Make a Mistake Giving Up Nuclear Weapons? [Special Episode]
In the 90s, Ukraine made the decision to dismantle the thousands of former Soviet nuclear weapons left on its territory. Nearly 3 decades later, Russi...
Hibakusha: Survivors of the Bomb
In this episode, we hear the wrenching stories of two survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. These two women, known as “Hibakusha” or “expl...
Fire and Fury in the Hermit Kingdom: North Korea’s Nuclear Program
The history of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions has see-sawed between crisis and hope. Bill Perry tells how close we came to war in 1994, and he and Ph...
The Iran Deal: Blocking a Persian Bomb
Was the Iran nuclear deal really “the worst deal ever negotiated”, as Donald Trump claimed? We’ll hear from Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. ne...
Project Sapphire: A Secret Mission to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism
In 1994, Andy Weber was serving at the U.S. embassy in Kazakhstan when his auto mechanic asked if he wanted to buy some uranium. This was the beginnin...
Modernizing Doomsday: The True Cost of Our Nuclear Arsenal
In January 2020, the Doomsday Clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight, telling us that the world is the closest to catastrophe it has ever been durin...
Loose Nukes: A Nuclear Success Story
Most Americans cheered when the Soviet Union broke apart into 15 independent countries in 1991, but a few had a sobering concern: the break-up created...
The Biscuit and the Football: Presidential Nuclear Authority
Is there anything more quintessentially American that naming the briefcase that the President uses to authorize a nuclear attack, “the football”? The...
Seek Immediate Shelter: Nuclear False Alarms
There is an urgent, specific danger facing our world today: nuclear weapons. In our first episode, producer and filmmaker Cynthia Lazaroff recounts th...