Super Critical Podcast - Overthinking Nuclear Pop Culture

In this episode, we loaded up our DeLorean with plutonium and popcorn so we could talk about the heavy nuclear plot of the movie Back to the Future. How safe was the nuclear time machine? Why was Doc Brown cavorting with Libyan terrorists? Does the Mr. Fusion come in as many colors as a Kitchen-Aid mixer? Tim Westmyer and returning special guest Kevin answer these questions and more. This is the tenth in our Mini-Nuke episode series, where we overthink movies with a smaller slice of nuclear weapons plot than our usual full-sized episodes. Before we activated our time circuits, we recommend checking out: -Back in Time (documentary), 2015 -Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons, 2016 -Rich Handley, A Matter of Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon, 2012 -Back to the Future: The Game (2010), Tell Tale Games -DeLorean (documentary), 1981 Check out our website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. We aim to have at le