BY CARL EVERSON AND HUGH DUNN. Everson held the Chair of Physics in the Oslo Institute; Dunn was Dean of Engineering at Glasgow, a Nobel Laureate also. The Story Reading which begins this episode features "Blunder, " by Philip Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971), originally published in COLLIER'S magazine in 1946. An unsuspected problem in an experiment in Bismuth Fission is the subject. The 1946 date accounts for the presence of the British in India and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Uranium Works in China. In this, for want of a better expression, alternate world, a limited nuclear war has already taken place. The mispronunciation of Worcester, Massachusetts is our fault; we knew that in England Worcester was Wooster and Hampshire Hants, but did not realize a similar trope ruled the name in this country. Taken from the English town of Worcester, the city's name is, in fact, notoriously mispronounced by people unfamiliar with the city. To be clear, as with the original in England, the first syllable of "cester" (from the Latin [military] "camp," castra) is left entirely unvoiced. Combined with a traditionally non-rhotic Eastern-New England English accent, the name can be transcribed as "WOOS-tuh" or "WISS-tuh," the first syllable possibly having a near-close, central, un-rounded vowel. A catastrophic nuclear disaster of such magnitude has long been speculated upon and still, within theory, remains a possibility. In his prophetic (pre-Atomic Age) novel THE WORLD SET FREE, H.G. Wells depicted a deployed nuclear weapon's result as a poisonous, perpetually erupting radioactive volcano. There was not even initial agreement that the first fission bomb would be limited in its reach and effect. Poetry of Dylan Thomas and others, even Stephen Vincent Benet's "Nightmare Number Three," which rounds off a potentially uneasy evening, are also presented here, with mixed and re-presented Archival (SubGenius) material. Around 1:30 AM the Show at last gives way to the underlying randomized Radio Valencia Music Mix.