[00:00:00] Hey Matt, did that black van ever come get you?
[00:00:02] No, just a black Prius.
[00:00:04] A Prius? The Jasons drive a Prius?
[00:00:07] No, it was actually NPR.
[00:00:09] What did NPR want?
[00:00:11] Well, they picked me up for a limited podcast series titled 12,000 Bombs, hosted by Matt
[00:00:17] Caplans, that's me, and Lauren Warnicke, a reporter with WGLT here at Illinois State University.
[00:00:23] Tell me about some of the guests.
[00:00:25] I'm so glad you asked.
[00:00:26] First, we have Professor Fred Lamb from the University of Illinois talking about ballistic
[00:00:29] missile defense, Israel and Iran.
[00:00:31] We have Tina Cordova, president of the Tolarosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, who were exposed
[00:00:36] to radiation by the Trinity Test in 1945, famously depicted now in Oppenheimer.
[00:00:41] We had Lily Shaw from Rutgers come and talk about climate models for nuclear winter, and
[00:00:46] a few more surprises.
[00:00:47] Am I one of those surprises?
[00:00:49] Maybe.
[00:00:49] Or you might have to wait for season two to find out.
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