About this podcast
Time Zero is a show about the nuclearized world.
Episodes
- 10: The Disneyfication of Death · 1 h 9 min · Season 1On the final episode of Time Zero, we visit the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a continent-wide monument to the advent of the nuclearized world. You'll hear from…
- 09: A Doomsday Gap (Part 02) · 1 h 0 min · Season 1In the second half of A Doomsday Gap, we continue to dive into nuclear deterrence and mutual assured destruction, unpacking how atomic anxiety underscored the Space Race…
- 09: A Doomsday Gap (Part 01) · 58 min · Season 1Nuclear deterrence is the concept that the mere possession of nuclear weapons, particularly by rival states, prevents their use. The only way to avoid the end of the world, we…
- 08: Deep Time · 1 h 28 min · Season 1How do we prevent future generations from excavating the most dangerous material we have ever produced? Across the planet, there are hundreds of thousands of tons of spent…
- 07: Neon Green Energy (Part 02) · 57 min · Season 1In 2015, an inaccessible art exhibition opened inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan. Its organizers, a collective called Don't Follow the Wind, entered the…
- 07: Neon Green Energy (Part 01) · 55 min · Season 1Seemingly overnight, a coordinated blitz for a "nuclear power renaissance" has emerged. Big tech billionaires, millennial energy start-ups, and the Trump administration all…
- 06: Nuke the Whales · 1 h 32 min · Season 1For nearly a century, nuclear armageddons have been imagined across American film, television, comics, and multiple literary genres. From early sci-fi pulp magazines, to Cold War…
- 05: The Lab (Part 02) · 57 min · Season 1What would happen if a wildfire consumed Los Alamos National Laboratory? Over the last 25 years, LANL has narrowly escaped two major wildfire events. On a warming planet, it may…
- 05: The Lab (Part 01) · 1 h 2 min · Season 1When the Manhattan Project arrived on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, the land was not uninhabited. To establish the highly secretive Site Y, the United States…
- 04: Wastelanding (Part 02) · 1 h 2 min · Season 1This week, we continue our investigation into uranium extraction on Indigenous landscapes across North America, and consider diverse community and artistic strategies for…
- 04: Wastelanding (Part 01) · 54 min · Season 1The US government knew that uranium mining posed existential threats to workers. But throughout the Cold War, as they bought ton after ton of uranium ripped out of the Four…
- 03: A Low-Use Segment of the Population · 1 h 20 min · Season 1Between 1945 and 1992, the United States detonated over 1,000 nuclear bombs, primarily at the Nevada Test Site and in the Marshall Islands, with additional detonations in New…
- 02: 05:29 a.m. Mountain War Time · 1 h 12 min · Season 1In the early hours of July 16, 1945, the US military detonated Trinity, the world's first nuclear weapon, in the Tularosa Basin of southern New Mexico. Locals were not warned…
- 01: Put on the Whole Armor of God · 52 min · Season 1On the premiere episode of Time Zero, we look at the ways that the threat of nuclear annihilation has shaped global realities for 80 years—and how contemporary artists…
- 00: Coming Soon: Time Zero · 2 minTime Zero is a ten-episode series about the nuclearized world from American writer, researcher, composer, and visual artist Sean J Patrick Carney. Episode 01 arrives June 25…
