This cheerfully terrifying 3 minute video gives us an idea what the effects of a nuclear blast would be on our bodies.
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Why We Should Care About Nukes
Here’s a quality video from minutephysics which explains the primary reason we should be concerned about nuclear weapons, the threat of nuclear winter.
What Is The Nuclear Football?
This ten minute video gives an introduction to the nuclear football, the device that any President would use to order a launch of nuclear weapons.
Inside An American Nuclear Base
This video from the Associated Press provides a quick look inside an American nuclear base.
Command And Control Of Nuclear Weapons: The Illusion of Safety
Here’s an hour long interview with author Eric Schlosser about his book, “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety”.
Could We Nuke A Hurricane?
Could we stop a hurricane by blowing it to bits with a nuclear bomb? Um, sorry Mr. President, no way.
How Would We Stop A Missile That’s Been Launched?
This 5 minute video from SciShow offers a quick look at the problem of stopping a nuclear missile which has been launched.
What’s Involved In Launching A Nuclear Weapon?
CNN’s Tom Foreman discusses how nuclear weapons are made small enough to be launched on ballistic missiles.
Can We Prevent Nuclear War?
Here’s a compelling Ted Talk by Ira Helfand, co-President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the group that won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Race To Build The World’s Biggest Bomb
This 45 minute documentary traces the history that led to the construction and detonation of the largest man made explosion in human history, the Russian’s Tsar Bomba, a nuclear bomb with 3,000 times more power than the weapon dropped on Hiroshima.