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There’s a sign, mounted on a locked door, four decks down from the flight deck on the USS Ticonderoga, a giant aircraft carrier, a sign reads “RESTRICTED SECURITY AREA / KEEP OUT / AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY / IT IS UNLAWFUL TO ENTER THIS AREA WITHOUT WRITTEN PEMISSION OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER” No one, except the men assigned to work in that room, was allowed to go through  that door.  Because behind that door are stored the nuclear bombs the Ticonderoga carries.  And on the floor of that room the bombs are assembled by the sailors in the weapons division.  They trained to do so efficiently, rapidly, in case they were called upon to arm the bombs for use. The location is the Philippine Sea during the Vietnam War.  The date is December 5, 1965, and before this day is over, one of those nuclear weapons will be in the ocean, armed to go off with no way of recovering it or disarming it.  Today, in our second part of our two part series on broken arrows – lost nuclear weapons – we will explore the only armed nuclear bomb the United States lost and did not recover.  All other weapons lost had fissile material, but had not been primed to explode.  The bomb lost by the Ticonderoga those fifty-seven years ago still sits at the bottom of the sea of Japan, still capable of detonating a full nuclear explosion.

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How could nuclear weapons, the most dangerous tools in the history of war, go missing?  What are the events that cause them to go missing and how are they recovered?  Join me as we explore a few of the stories of America’s Broken Arrows.

February 13, 1950, loss of a B-36 over Canada.
March 10, 1956, loss of a B-47 over the Mediterranean Sea
July 28, 1957, loss of a C-124 over the Atlantic
February 5, 1958, loss of a B-47 near Tybee Island, Georgia
January 21, 1961, loss of a B-52, North Carolina
February 1968, loss of the SSN-589 USS Scorpion, Mediterranean Sea

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Every Halloween, news coverage spikes about the risks of children consuming poisoned candy.  This episode tells the stories of those who have intentionally tried to hurt children through adulterated candy and the origin of reason why parents all tell their children…don’t take candy from strangers.

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In 1925, Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole failed and his two planes were force to land on the ice without reaching their destination.  His team of six barely to civilization aboard a single, stripped down plane.  Amundsen, already a seasoned explorer, decided that he’d never again allow himself to be stuck on the ice.  A year later, he successfully reached the North Pole aboard the Airship Norge, alongside American Lincoln Ellsworth and Italian airship designer, Umberto Nobile.  Conflict among these men finally broke into the open as the Norge struggled back to civilization, barely surviving a terrible storm over Alaska.  Then, in 1928 Nobile set out to reach the North Pole again, this time for the sole honor of his country, aboard an Italian named airship of his design with an Italian crew.  But this trip would be beset with trials and horrific events that make the disaster of the Airship Italia one that haunts arctic explorers to this day.

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Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula completely transformed the idea of vampires.  And the pop culture image of Dracula’s castle is based on a building that never existed, but was an amazing creation of a writer’s imagination of a location in Romania he never visited.  Today Romania is a tourist desination, in part driven by visitors’ desire to visit a place where the fictional events of the novel were set. They even buy dirt from a castle linked to a fictional vampire who never existed.  We seek authenticity, the real, in the fictional…even when the story is about the most famous creature of the night, Dracula.

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The story of the study of UFOs in the USSR reveals the conflict between the desire for knowledge and the communist objective of strict control over topics the government deemed to be unacceptable. This episode will share the stories of two of the most famous Soviet UFOlogists and some of the sightings which motivated them to fight against the government’s control of scientific discourse.

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Delve into the mysterious life and sudden death of Gerald Cotten, the founder of QuadrigaCX, once Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange. It starts by tracing Cotten’s early interest in digital currencies and his founding of QuadrigaCX, which quickly became a key player in the cryptocurrency market.  In December 2018 Cotten reportedly died from complications due to Crohn's disease while volunteering at an orphanage in India. His death plunged QuadrigaCX into chaos as he was the sole person responsible for the exchange's funds and passwords, losing access $190 million worth of cryptocurrency held in cold storage.

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Learn the history of Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, the famous frozen dead guy, of Nederland Colorado and his grandson, Trygve Bauge, who cryopreserved him.

1.     Origins of the town of Nederland Colorado

2.     How Grandpa Bredo came to be cryopreserved then stored in a shed in Nederland.

3.     Father of Cryonics, Robert Ettinger

4.     The process of cryonic preservation

5.     Two of the most controversial cryopreservation cases, including Ted Williams and Dora Kent.

6.     What happened after Granda Bredo’s body was discovered by authorities in Nederland

7.     The origin of Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy annual festival.

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Dive deep with us into the underground horrors where the V2 was produced after the destruction of Peenemunde in WWII. 

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Like Clockwork will be released in print and ebook form in late August 2022.

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