Ep18 : Nuclear Bombs and North Korean Cannibalism

Published: Feb. 27, 2013, 11:56 p.m.

b'This week we had some left over content and managed to string it together for yet another mini-episode. Our topics are as interesting as they are disturbing and include nuclear blasts, online nuclear simulators, the alleged North Korean crisis, and even claims of cannibalism from within a starved North Korean population.\\n\\nThe claims of cannibalism are probably the worst, albeit we didn\'t have a tremendous amount of information on the topic. We\'ll most likely pick some of these topics back up in a future episode and explore them with much more depth.\\n\\nMaterial from Podcast\\nMusic\\n\\nNuclear War by Yo La Tengo\\n\\n\\nReferences\\n\\nTsar Bomba Video\\nNuclear Testing by Country on Wikipedia\\nNuclear Darkness Simulator\\nGround Zero Simulator\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\nKevin: Hello and welcome back to another episode of the JK Podcast, where we pursue topics of liberty, humanity, and equality for all. This week we had some leftover content and managed to string it together for yet another mini episode. Our topics for this discussion include nuclear blasts, online nuclear simulators, the alleged North Korean crisis, and probably most disturbing, claims of parent child cannibalism from a starved North Korean population. \\n\\nSince it\'s another short episode, we\'ll jump right into it. As always, your hosts are Jad Davis and Kevin Ludlow. Welcome back to our show. \\n\\nJad: Just watching a little video on the Russians dropping a - their largest nuclear bomb - pretty crazy looking. \\n\\nKevin: This is an old video. \\n\\nJad: Old video, yeah. \\n\\nKevin: Yeah, I think I\'ve actually seen this. What\'s the name of the thing? \\n\\nJad: The Czar[?]. \\n\\nKevin: The Czar[?], yeah, that\'s it. I have seen this one before. \\n\\nJad: It\'s funny. \\n\\nKevin: There\'s a simulator somewhere online that lets you - it\'s got like, all of the major bombs that have ever been created by Russia, the United States, and China, and et cetera, and -\\n\\nActually, there\'s quite a few of these available online. Just search Google for "nuclear bomb simulator", and you won\'t be disappointed. \\n\\n- it gives you all their names, and what you can do is you can set the epicenter and it actually will create all the radii\'s, so it shows like, the initial blast [?], the destruction radius, the radiation fallout, and then just kind of everything beyond that, and then it lets you set parameters yourself like if you want to just create a crazy bomb. It\'s just kind of interesting to see what some of these weapons would actually do. \\n\\nJad: Yeah. \\n\\nKevin: There is one of them - I don\'t remember what one - that actually would - I\'ve dropped it on the capital before - the Texas capital - and it basically blows its way out to Dripping Springs, so - \\n\\nJad: Uh huh, yeah. \\n\\nKevin: So it would do some pretty good damage. \\n\\nJad: That\'s what they do. \\n\\nKevin: For those not familiar with central Texas, Dripping Springs is about 25 miles from the Texas State Capitol building. Such a blast would cause immeasurable devastation to the area. \\n\\nJad: There\'s that other one that shows all of the test nuclear blasts since I guess, 1944, 45 - whenever it was - so like, the first one starts in the desert in the United States - it\'s like a you know, a Google map or whatever - and then it just starts - \\n\\nKevin: Oh, right. \\n\\nJad: Yeah, then it\'s called the [crosstalk] then the Russians start lighting up, you know, the wastelands up in the arctic, and then China starts lighting stuff up, and then India, and then it\'s like South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, and then pretty soon like, the entire world was like these flashlight bulbs of you know, nuclear blasts going off - it\'s kinda crazy, yeah. I mean, the United States did like I don\'t know, some thousands of tests, you know? \\n\\nKevin: That\'s crazy. It really is.\\n\\nAccording to Wikipedia, which gets its citation from nuclearweaponarchive.org, the United States has conducted more than 1,'