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Congrats! You found the writing team, and folks who manage the business end of the team. The scientists often don't work at the union, they're at universities and other spaces, and they work with the full time writing staff. Let's face it, most scientists aren't great at talking to the public.

Here's the credentials of those working with them

Andrew W. Reddie: Andrew Reddie is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently serves as deputy director for the Nuclear Policy Working Group and as a researcher for the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Goldman School of Public Policy, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and Berkeley Asia-Pacific Study Center at UC Berkeley as well as a researcher with the Project for Nuclear Gaming. He is also a Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Fellow and Bridging the Gap Fellow. He holds an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University as well as an M.A. and a B.A. (hons.) from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he held research and editorial roles at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Business and Politics, the Canadian International Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. Andrew’s work has appeared in a variety of academic and policy-oriented publications including Science, Journal of Cyber Policy, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

Bethany L. Goldblum Bethany L. Goldblum is an associate research engineer in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and executive director of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, a multi-institution initiative established by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to conduct research and development supporting the nation’s nonproliferation mission while expanding the talent pipeline. Her research focuses on fundamental and applied nuclear physics, neutron detection, scintillator characterization, multi-source analytics, and nuclear security policy. Goldblum also founded and directs the Nuclear Policy Working Group, an educational programming effort focused on developing policy solutions to strengthen global nuclear security. She is director of the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Boot Camp at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Goldblum received a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Stewart Prager Stewart Prager is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the Program on Science and Global Security. He previously served as director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. His research focus has been plasma physics and fusion energy.

Steve Fetter Fetter is associate provost, dean of the graduate school, and professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He served for five years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama Administration, where he led the environment and energy and the national security and international affairs divisions. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists board of directors and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control. He has worked on nuclear policy issues in the Pentagon and the State Department and has been a visiting fellow at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also served as associate director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute and vice chairman of the Federation of American Scientists. He is a recipient of the American Physical Society’s Joseph A. Burton Forum Award, the Federation of American Scientists’ Hans Bethe ‘Science in the Public Service’ award, and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

Alexander Glaser Alexander Glaser is associate professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. Glaser co-directs the Program on Science and Global Security and serves as a co-chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). Along with Harold Feiveson, Zia Mian, and Frank von Hippel, he is co-author of Unmaking the Bomb (MIT Press, 2014). Glaser holds a PhD in Physics from Darmstadt University, Germany.

Zia Mian Zia Mian is co-director of Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, where he also directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia. He received the American Physical Society’s 2019 Leo Szilard Award “For promoting global peace and nuclear disarmament particularly in South Asia, through academic research, public speaking, technical and popular writing and organizing efforts to ban nuclear weapons.”

Frank von Hippel von Hippel is one of the United States’ most prominent scientists in the nuclear policy arena. He co-founded Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security and the International Panel on Fissile Materials, and is a member of the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors. A former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, von Hippel's policy research currently focuses on reducing global stocks of weapon-usable fissile materials and the number of locations where they can be found.

Myles Allen Myles Allen is a professor of geosystem science at the Environmental Change Institute in the School of Geography and the Environment, and a professor the Department of Physics, both at the University of Oxford, UK. He was coordinating lead author of Chapter 1, “Framing and Context,” of the IPCC Special Report on a Global Warming of 1.5°C, published in October, 2018. He is also an author of the Oxford Martin Principles for Climate Conscious Investment.

Soheil Shayegh Soheil Shayegh is a research scientist at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) in Milano, Italy, and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow with a research focus on mathematical modeling of the interaction between natural and human systems.

Those were the first 9 I found. I'm sure more have worked with them and will work with them.

pedantic voice they're guinea pigs

The system of complete destruction from a nuclear holocaust still exists. Dismantle that and we can have talks of removing the clock

Jesse Thorn, America's radio sweetheart.

Did you always intend for Maximium Fun to be a hub for so many different podcasts? I don't see many other public radio producers doing as much in podcasts as you seem to.

Also there seems to be a large divide between Bullseye and all of your other podcasts(eg. swearing, humor, direction or lack there of). There seems to be an almost different Jesse on Bullseye than there is on JJGo. Did you always intend for such a different divide, and which do you like doing more?

Finally, kill, marry, bang. Ira glass, Jad Abumrad, and Roman Mars.