Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Nuclear Weapons and the United States
TV Flash files “Nuclear Weapons and the United States” as hour 12 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 1, episode 12, aired 2014-07-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E12: listed hour 12 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 12 of 24 in season 1. It aired 2014-07-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Commonwealth Games, America's Prisons” (S01E11). Next is “Argentine Debt Restructuring, Native Advertising” (S01E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John addresses the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, revisits the subject of international royalty, discusses the safety of nuclear weapons and campaigns to save geckos in space.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Nuclear Weapons and the United States sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S01E12 is listed hour 12 of 371 — hour 12 of 24 in season 1, season 1 episode 12.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S01E12 air?
Nuclear Weapons and the United States aired 2014-07-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch every week in order?
Each episode is a topical deep dive, not a serial plot. Jump at a subject you care about; net-neutrality-era segments are the origin myth of the civic-homework clip.
In the series
Why this series still plays
John Oliver turned late-night into a research department with punchlines: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Civic homework disguised as comedy — explainer satire that actually moved petitions, and a host who treats footnotes like setups.
Sunday night, and the group chat is doing homework. After *The Daily Show*, John Oliver's HBO late-night series debuted April 2014 with Tim Carvell and James Taylor in the engine room: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Segments sparked real petitions and news cycles. Multiple Emmys for variety talk. Footnotes as setups. (Spoiler-free: the joke comes with a syllabus.) Lana can have the tuxedo. **The ship is the explainer, and the replies are…
Open the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver package · Season 1 hub
Filed against
- John Oliver as Host
John Oliver’s correspondent weather on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart made a fake newscast feel like a civic classroom, then Last Week Tonight turned the same research into twenty-minute deep dives — 2000s catalog Stewart era, 2010s…
Also in season 1
- S01E01 Indian General Election, NSA's New Image, POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co.
- S01E02 Death Penalty, François Hollande, the Sultan of Brunei
- S01E03 Bill Nye, the U.S. Senate Election in Kentucky, Global Warming Controversy
- S01E04 Fareed Zakaria, General Motors, Right to Be Forgotten
- S01E05 Net Neutrality, Tony Abbott, 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee
- S01E06 FIFA and the World Cup, Bashar al-Assad