Every story needs context. In part one of our two-part series on the Chernobyl disaster, we start at the dawn of the atomic age. Our special guest Nuclear Norm gives us a "nuclear physics for dummies" introduction to the history of nuclear power. Little Boy, Fat Man, uranium, plutonium, and the shocking death of a nuclear physicist in a very non-laboratory accident. Join us as we tee up the events to come in 1986 Soviet Ukraine.
Norm's song pick:: Decay by HOME
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XfoqJevsj1fDLOtd5bKQg
Leigh's song pick:: Hallogallo by Neu!
https://open.spotify.com/track/03vZjTWmX1Bk57DIrYADdM
Peter's song pick:: Soviet Anthem by The Red Army Choir
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JRoo5kkeboyTWVdMEU3pw?si=avlrZ1-LT3qlj09wqueQWQ
If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a review!
Also, tell your friends!
Tell your enemies too, we're not picky.
Instagram/Twitter/Facebook: @thisdisasterpod
www.thisdisasterpod.com
Theme song by Blank Sun: https://blanksun.bandcamp.com
Episode 15.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Smalls Lighthouse
Episode 15: Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Episode 14.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Cerebus the Aardvark
Episode 14: The Black Death - Part 2
Episode 13.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Apollo One
Episode 13: The Black Death - Part 1
Episode 12.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Satanic Panic and the PMRC
Episode 12: Egyptian Famine
Episode 11.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Oxford Comma
Episode 11: Cosmic Terror (at the End of the Universe)
Episode 10.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Wish You Weren't Here
Episode 10: Teignmouth Electron - Part 2
Episode 9.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Hindenburg Disaster
Episode 9: Teignmouth Electron - Part 1
Episode 8.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Factory Records
Episode 8: Fury of St Helens
Episode 7.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Mount Everest Mayhem
Episode 7: Woodstock '99
Episode 6.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Replacements Play SNL
Episode 6: Smallpox in Mexico
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore