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Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (WIW 16)

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EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)

One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t. 

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SECTIONS

  1. 02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
  2. 07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
  3. 25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
  4. 39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
  5. 46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock
    • Music by Fanette Ronjat

      • More Info

      • Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
      • United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
      • List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
      • The Doomsday Clock

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