Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 12 - “The Winds of Jaburo” (ジャブローの風), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on nuclear explosions, the Fall of Saigon, and Mobile Suit Variations.

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- Wikipedia pages on nuclear weapons testing generally, United States nuclear weapon tests, high-altitude nuclear explosions, and underground nuclear testing.

- And pages on the effects of nuclear explosions, including blast waves, mushroom clouds, nuclear electromagnetic pulses, and condensation clouds.

- Slide deck explaining effects of nuclear weapons (WARNING: graphic descriptions and images of nuclear weapon effects on human bodies).

- The Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini Atoll.

- Two narratives of the Operation Crossroads debacle (includes pictures and video).

- Video of underwater nuclear tests (Wahoo and Umbrella, in the 1950s).

- About the Partial Test Ban Treaty (which banned all testing except underground testing).

- Federation of American Scientists (an NGO founded by alumni of the Manhattan Project) page on underground nuclear testing.

- Footage of an underground nuclear explosion.

- Paper on the containment of underground nuclear explosions, with descriptions of how they work.

- Article about underground testing at the Nevada facility where more than 800 tests were performed.

- BBC article explaining how underground nuclear tests function.

- Dangers of underground testing contaminating groundwater:

"Concerns Arise Over Aquifer Near Nuclear Test Site" by Martin Forstenzer, March 21, 2000.

- Wikipedia pages for the Fall of Sa