Craig Nelson is a New York Times bestseller and is jam packed with informational facts and stories about nuclear physics and the people behind it. He talks to Jason today about his new book The Age of Radiance and how nuclear power has changed our lives for better and for worse. 
 
Key Takeaways:
4:00 – Nuclear science has a lot of bad press, but it has done many great things and, some would say, it has even prevented wars. 
7:30 – Craig tells a fantastic story of 4 teenagers who grew up only a couple of KM from each other and ended up meeting later in life through their work within the atomic field. 
9:12 – Fun fact, John Von Neumann would read and drive at the same time and would often crash his car. 
10:41 – The people who developed atomic weapons were refugees from Hitler. A question people often ask is, “What happened if Hitler had the atomic weapons first?”
14:30  - According to Craig, if you look at the Dr. Strangelove movie, a lot of what happened in the movie was true or came true. 
18:15 – The most frighten experiment in the US took place on Bikini Atoll and that's how the bikini swimsuit came to be. 
22:20 – Nuclear in America has become such a burden in the US because you need federal funds to build the plant, maintain it, and fix it. Tax payers simply don't want to spend that money.
23:45 – Find an author who's writing similar books as you and find out who their agent is. Contact their agent and work from there. People tend to get rejected because they're sending their book to the wrong people. 
27:05 – Times have changed drastically for physical books. Authors don't need to tour any more with the use of the internet.
 
Mentioned In This Episode:
http://www.holisticsurvival.com/
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/
http://www.craignelson.us