Super Critical Podcast hosts Tim Westmyer and Gabe are lucky to have so many awesome guests join the show. Some are nuclear policy specialists or experts in their fields. Others are awesome people bringing their unique perspectives to the discussions.
Special shoutout to former podcast host Joel for getting the show launched right out of the silo!
Nuke Policy Specialists and Other Experts
Sebastian Brixey-Williams (@seb_bw), Co-Director of the think tank BASIC
- Episode 41: When the Wind Blows
Tim Collins (@WarAndCake), PhD Candidate, Kings College London
- Episode #16: Threads
- Episode #22: The Man in the High Castle
- Episode #32: Them!
Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione), Distinguished Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
- Episode #56: On the Beach
Erin Connolly (@Erin_Conn17), Girl Security
- Episode #45: Fat Man and Little Boy
David Craig (@Produce2Power), Clinical Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California
- Episode #57: The Day After
Jon Duke (@VortexAeroMedia), Specialist media services for aerospace & defense
- Episode #33: Sum of All Fears
Rachel Emond (@Rachel_Emond), Scoville Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
- Episode #40: Godzilla
James Sheehan (@JSheehanDC), Consultant working on trans-Atlantic cooperation and public diplomacy
- Episode #66: Star Trek Voyager – “Warhead”
Matthew Gault (@mjgault), Journalist, VICE; co-host of War College Podcast
- Episode #49: Matinee
Kate Hewitt (@BlondNukeGirl), Girl Security
- Episode #45: Fat Man and Little Boy
Michael C. Horowitz (@mchorowitz), Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Episode #35: Game of Thrones
Meghan McCall (@Nuclear_Ginger_), Formerly of Ploughshares Fund
- Episode #37: Chernobyl
Chris Mirasola (@cmirasola1), Lawfare
- Mini-Nuke #4: The Martian
Sylvia Mishra (@mishrasylvia), PhD Candidate, King’s College London
- Episode 53: By Dawn’s Early Light
Luis Navarro, Eurasia Program Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Episode 23: Watchman
Manu Saadia (@Trekonomics), author of Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
- Episode #18: Star Trek – First Contact
Will Saetren (@WillSaetren), Norway Ministry of Defense
- Episode #28: Atomic Alcohol
- Episode #34: Nuke Themed Escape Room
- Episode #42: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
- Episode #59: The Heroes of Telemark
- Episode #61: Crimson Tide
- Mini-Nuke #11: 99 Luftballons
- Mini-Nuke #12: Starship Troopers
Stephen I. Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst), Former Editor of The Nonproliferation Review
- Episode #36: Seven Days in May
- Episode #55: The Manhattan Project
- Episode #58: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
Lucy Steigerwald (@lucystag), Contributing Editor, AntiWar.com
- Episode #19: Fallout
- Episode #52: Testament
- Episode #68: WarGames 2: The Dead Code
Cecili Thompson-Williams (@cecilitw), Managing Director, Beyond the Bomb
- Episode #48: Daybreak
Pranay Vaddi (@PranayVaddi), Former Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Episode #39: Amazing Grace and Chuck
Tristan Volpe (@TeeAndersVolpe), Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis, Monterey School of International Studies and Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Episode #8: The Peacemaker
- Episode #24: Nuke Cage Podcast
Geoff Wilson (@NuclearWilson), Political Director, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
- Episode #37: Chernobyl
- Episode #40: Godzilla
- Episode #61: Crimson Tide
- Mini-Nuke #12: Starship Troopers
Jamie Withrone (@JamieWithorne), Research Assistant, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Episode #29: Madam Secretary – Night Watch
Really Cool Non-Nuke Expert Guests
Alex #1
- Episode #12: Terminator Movies
- Episode #20: Octopussy
Alex #2
- Mini-Nuke #9: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Boris (@bmelnikov)
- Episode #26: The Hunt for Red October
- Episode #30: Nukes vs. Asteroids
Clark
- Episode #25: Blue Sky & Nuclear Test Site Visit
Diana (Tim’s sister!)
- Mini-Nuke #2: Blast from the Past
- Episode #17: The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
Elliot
- Episode #27: Atomic Train
- Episode #44: Twilight Zone – “Time Enough at Last” & “No Time Like the Past”
Eric Gascho (@EricGascho)
- Episode #28: Atomic Alcohol
James Finnegan
- Episode #31: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Nick Lyell (@FalseAlarmFilm), documentary filmmaker
- Episode #62: False Alarm
Stefan Sasse (@StefanSasse), host of podcast Boiled Leather Audio Hour
- Episode #63: The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica
Kevin
- Episode #10: Nuclear War Card Game
- Episode #43: Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al
- Episode #65: Choose Your Own Adventure Book – The Brilliant Dr. Wogan
- Episode #69: Chain Reaction
- Mini-Nuke #10: Back to the Future
Mike
- Mini-Nuke #6: Jaws
Victoria
- Episode #9: Fail-Safe
Podcast Co-Hosts
Gabe (Current Co-Host)
- Episode #5: Star Trek – The City on the Edge of Forever
- Episode #6: Star Trek – Assignment: Earth
- Episode #18: Star Trek – First Contact
- Episode #21: Ladybug, Ladybug
- Episode #27: Atomic Train
- Episode #28: Atomic Alcohol
- Episode #31: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
- Episode #33: Sum of All Fears
- Episode #38: Six String Samurai
- Episode #42: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
- Episode #44: Twilight Zone – “Time Enough at Last” and “No Time Like the Past”
- Episode #46: Air Force One
- Episode #47: Gilligan’s Island
- Episode #50: Spies Like Us
- Episode #51: Miracle Mile
- Episode #54: Deterrence
- Episode #58: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
- Episode #60: Notorious
- Episode #64: A Carol for Another Christmas
- Episode #66: Star Trek Voyager – Warhead
- Episode #67: Top Gun – Maverick
- Mini-Nuke #1: Star Trek Beyond
- Mini-Nuke #4: The Martian
- Mini-Nuke #7: The Interview
- Mini-Nuke #9: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Joel (Original Co-Host)
- Episode #1: True Lies
- Episode #2: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Episode #3: WarGames
- Episode #4: Broken Arrow
- Episode #5: Star Trek – The City on the Edge of Forever
- Episode #6: Star Trek – Assignment: Earth
- Episode #7: GI Joe: Retaliation
- Episode #8: The Peacemaker
- Episode #9: Fail-Safe
- Episode #11: Independence Day
- Episode #12: Terminator Movies
- Episode #13: Star Wars
- Episode #14: Twilight Zone – The Shelter
- Episode #15: Special Bulletin
- Mini-Nuke #3: The “Daisy” Ad
- Mini-Nuke #5: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Mini-Nuke #8: The Leftovers