Nuclear Historian Reacts to Movies | Science vs Fiction

Описание: In this episode of Science vs Fiction, nuclear historian and Stevens Institute of Technology associate professor Alex Wellerstein breaks down and fact-checks iconic scenes involving atomic weapons, nuclear disasters, and radioactivity in movies and pop culture.

Oppenheimer, Chernobyl, Fallout, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible: how realistic are these nuclear explosions?
What really happens during a nuclear disaster? Could AI take over global nuclear arsenals? Why do we all think radiation glows green? Can you survive a nuke in a fridge? And do those scenes get the science of nuclear energy and radioactivity right?

Alex Wellerstein answers all these questions and reveals what movies and shows get right, what they get completely wrong, and why our culture remains both fascinated and terrified by the nuclear age.

Thank you to Alex Wellerstein. Make sure to read his latest book, a great resource on nuclear history and the American atomic age:
https://alexwellerstein.com/writing/b...

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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Fallout
03:01 Chernobyl
05:40 The Wolverine
08:07 Madam Secretary
11:40 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
14:44 The Simpsons
16:04 Oppenheimer
20:30 Barefoot Gen
23:28 The Martian
25:24 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
27:26 Final words

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