In this episode, we did a deep dive on the nuclear plot of The Hunt for Red October (1990). Is bigger necessarily better for the Red October? Just how bad would it be if the United States could no longer tracker Russian submarines? How easy is it for a cook to hotwire a submarine launched ballistic missile? Tim Westmyer and special guest Boris take a break from their vacation in Las Vegas to answer these questions and more.

Before we listened for the pings of a slot machine (hopefully more than just a single ping), we recommend checking out: 

-Douglas Waller, Big Red: Three Months On Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine, 2001
-Pavel Podvig, Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, 2004
-Run Silent, Run Deep, (1958 movie)
-Russian Naval Blog, “Even The Russians Know They Suck, Part I,” February 7, 2010 
-Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, 2000

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Episode 26: The Hunt for Red October

Podcast overthinking movies about nuclear weapons with policy analysis, quasi-science, pop culture debates, and too many puns.

Episode 26: The Hunt for Red October

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