The idea for Radioactive RoadTrippin’ (R&R) came to me during a conversation with a friend. It was a powerful, visceral response of my subconscious to the notion that I’d somehow left a career in reducing the risks of nuclear weapons behind for good. I left my job at the Department of Defense to accomplish new dreams, but […]
Read Part I Here. Things did not go exactly as planned, starting with the day I arrived in Texas–from my flat tire in the last few hours before my arrival in Rockport down to the two thumb-sized cockroaches eagerly waiting to greet me. I expected a bumpy road and maybe even a few potholes on
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Voluntarily undertaking any major life change is going to require some serious courage. You’re going to have to take a leap of faith. It’s like stepping off a cliff and hoping there’s something to catch you. If you’ve gone skydiving before, you know exactly what it feels like in your mind and body–the sensation of
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Logline: A disillusioned nuclear weapons expert hits the road for a year, traveling across the United States in a truck camper with her two dogs. Along the way, she visits historical and current sites of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and chats with locals and experts about the risk of nuclear war. Why take a
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After spending more than two decades working in the field of nuclear weapons policy, it’s hard to imagine being shocked by all that much anymore. And yet there I was in February 2020, stunned and shaken, staring wide-eyed as a Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile emerged slowly through blast doors from its underground bunker. A long-retired
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Every idea has an origin story. Multiple interwoven threads ultimately led me to develop the Radioactive RoadTrippin’ concept. Everything came together during a conversation with a good friend on Monday, October 11, 2020. I can still remember when I said: “That’s it! I know what I should do. I’ll produce a travelogue show for YouTube
In this episode, I interview Richard Miller, a long-time expert on industrial safety and the author of many books on the impact of U.S. nuclear testing including Under the Cloud and The U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout, 1951-1962. From 1951 to 1962, the U.S. government dropped 100 nuclear weapons on the state of Nevada, not
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In this episode, I discuss my first “pit stop” as part of my one-year road trip around the United States to visit nuclear-weapons related sites. In my research on nuclear weapons and Texas, I spotted something odd on Google Maps satellite imagery. On my way to San Antonio, I made a quick stop at “Uranium
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In this episode, I discuss my experiences during my first two months of owning a Host Yukon truck camper and share 5 things you need to do right away if you’ve just purchased your own new camper. I went camping three times since August 20, and every single time, at least one thing broke. My
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In this episode, I invite you behind the scenes into my writer’s room for a preview of Radioactive RoadTrippin. You’ll watch me pitch the pilot episode to three nuclear weapons experts and get their take on how I should best proceed. I ask them to guess how many nuclear weapons related sites I found in
