Radio War Nerd

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 8, 2023 Last year, Conventional Wisdom had it that Putin might drop a nuke on Ukraine as Russia's military seemed to implode; this year, Conventional Wisdom says only dupes worry about Russian nukes. We talk to RWN favorite Annibale about the history & science of nukes

Recorded: October 12, 2022 The Nerd & Ames discuss tactical nukes — such as they are a thing — from the Cold War, through Putin's maybe/maybe not-bluffing. Total time: 1:42:48 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 27, 2021 RWN guest Annibale returns for part 2 of our series on the XB-70 Valkyrie (listen to part 1: RWN #284). In this episode, pick up from JFK's decision to cancel the Valkyrie... discuss the CIA's SR-71 spy plane...and the fallout from the cancelation of the Valky

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 18, 2021 RWN's highly decorated guest Annibale joins us for a two-part mondo hardware series on the American XB-70 supersonic bomber, an astonishing feat of mid-century aerospace engineering that was scrapped. In part one, we discuss the background of the XB-70 and pre

Guest: Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson, journalist Recorded: February 11, 2020 TOKYO—It's been a long time coming, and now here it is at last: remedial survey of video/computer war games that even your Luddite hosts can understand. We're lucky to be joined by journalist & ex-parliamentarian (Pirate) Gunnar Hra