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Dumb Ways to Die, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dumb Ways to Die, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Update: 2025-09-23
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Rich and Adam dive into some of the most spectacularly unhinged nuclear powered ideas - from the Air Force's 1958 proposal to nuke the moon for a PR stunt, to the Davy Crockett, the Army's portable nuclear bazooka that would cook their own crews, to the variety of proposals to use atomic bombs as construction equipment, engines, and as hurricane defense.

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Dumb Ways to Die, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dumb Ways to Die, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb