nuclear disaster

Should presidents be our lone nuclear decision makers?

September 26, 2023 Current Events, Global Issues, History, Science and Technology, Think

Science writer Sarah Scoles joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how psychologists want to study what factors into that high-stakes thinking.

Nuclear Accidents: Not If But When

January 24, 2019 Environment, Global Issues

Greg Jaczko, former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, joins us to discuss the difficulty of running an agency with less political power than the industry it oversees, which he writes about in “Confessions of a Rouge Nuclear Regulator.”