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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. Let's hear it for our super producer,

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Speaker 1: Max Defcon Williams.

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Speaker 2: What's it?

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Speaker 3: What's like a clason? Is that the sound that you

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Speaker 3: hear remain indores, remain in doors. There's been an event? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: I'm bad, Yeah you are indeed. Yeah, and today we're

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Speaker 3: talking about the seminal nineteen nineties action film Broken Arrow,

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Speaker 3: starring John Travolta and Christian Slater.

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Speaker 2: Seminal seminal. That's pretty bold. Yeah, yeah, you think it's

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Speaker 2: a semin I'm misusing it. No, no, I've been known

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Speaker 2: to misused words. That is correct, because that is an

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Speaker 2: amazing film. Did I get it right? Isn't Christian Slater

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Speaker 2: in it? I don't know. He's a good guy.

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Speaker 3: Travolt is the bad guy. I remember, he's the bad guy.

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Speaker 3: What is a broken arrow? It's also, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Brian Adams.

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Speaker 2: Who else is going to bring you?

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Speaker 3: I think he's talking about an actual broken arrow, though, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's naming off weird objects like a bottle of rain.

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Speaker 2: You know, sure, don't think he's talking about lost nukes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're all code words for different governmental disasters. Brian, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like a biocontaminant that's lost the bottle of rain.

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Speaker 2: That's good.

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Speaker 4: So I want to kind of just jump in here

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Speaker 4: and go completely off topic though, because Ben, screw you, man.

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Speaker 2: Okay, screw you. What does what happens? We just recorded

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Speaker 2: stuff that I want you to know.

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Speaker 4: Ben was talking about how much he loves I Will

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Speaker 4: Follow You in the Dark by Death caf for CUTI.

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Speaker 2: I will stay this right now.

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Speaker 4: I just spent two hundred and sixty dollars on tickets,

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Speaker 4: sixty sixty one dollars on tickets. You go see Death

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Speaker 4: Cab for Cutie twentieth anniversary translations. I'm along with twentieth

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Speaker 4: anniversary of Gave Up my post post service. I love

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Speaker 4: Death Cab for Cuitie, but I stayed to band. That

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Speaker 4: song is terrible. Yeah, he told me listen to it now.

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Speaker 4: I was stuck in my head.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a catchy jam and it's not terrible. It's

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Speaker 3: just a sacarin and it just makes you kind of

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Speaker 1: Killed it, you know, Like it's one of those songs

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Speaker 1: where when the band plays it. The front guy doesn't

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Speaker 2: They love that, that's right.

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Speaker 3: I saw them at a festival in Atlanta recently or

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. Caught Time is weird, uh,

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Speaker 3: and it's one of the ones he does on acoustic.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't really have a big explosive, so it's a

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Speaker 3: bit of a snoozer, but I think it's pretty. It's

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Speaker 3: just so elegantly written.

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Speaker 2: It is elegantly written.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a much bigger fan of the Postal Service

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Speaker 3: Will Die.

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Speaker 2: On that hill. Speaking of dying on hills, Wait wait, wait, wait, Max,

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Speaker 2: where are you going with this? You listen to it?

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Speaker 2: So I listened to it and it was pretty good.

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Speaker 4: I went then put on styrophone Plates, off the Off

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Speaker 4: the Photo album. Much better song. If you Think I

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Speaker 4: Will Follow You in the Dark is a great song.

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Speaker 4: Listen to starrophone Plates. It's a less famous album, but

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Speaker 4: it's a much better song.

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Speaker 1: I refuse to nol I refuse for us to do

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Speaker 1: a Max with the Facts on that one, because that

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Speaker 1: is a musical opinion.

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Speaker 2: That was Max with the Wax The whack worth it,

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Speaker 2: worth it you guys want a real facts. There are

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Speaker 2: lost nukes.

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Speaker 1: There are tons of lost nukes. This where we were going, right, like, okay.

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Speaker 2: Somehow we were gonna get there. Yeah, here we set up,

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Speaker 2: We took it, are right, we did a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: So, according to atomic archive dot com, since nineteen fifty,

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Speaker 1: there have been no less than thirty two nuclear weapon accidents,

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Speaker 1: and to your point earlier, Noel, those are conventionally known

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Speaker 1: as broken arrows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or as we like to refer to them collectively, whoopsies. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: new kuipsies, neukuipsies. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: we're going to talk about that today. Thirty two nuclear

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Speaker 3: according to atomic archive dot com, involving nuclear weapons that

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Speaker 3: result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft.

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Speaker 2: Or loss of the weapon.

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Speaker 1: Important distinction, right, because it's not always just losing the thing.

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Speaker 1: You could accidentally launch it. And it might sound strange, folks,

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Speaker 1: because as you know, there are tons of redundancies involved.

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Speaker 1: The US nuclear Arsenal is created in such a way

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Speaker 1: big ones, the scary ones, are the ones that have

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Speaker 1: been lost. Like you were saying, six nuclear weapons over

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Speaker 1: the course of history have been lost. They've never been found.

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Speaker 1: That number, we should say is big thanks to Max here.

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Speaker 1: We should say that number is highly debated because some

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Speaker 1: people think there are just three missing nukes. Some people

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Speaker 1: think they're way, way more. And that's the tricky part.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's two part episode, right, because we don't

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Speaker 1: we don't know, we don't know, and I mean, let's

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Speaker 3: Nukes are a thing that like some people get and

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Speaker 3: other people don't get. They don't like it when I'm

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Speaker 3: talking like geopolitically speaking, Yeah, and we're one of the

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Speaker 3: of compacts and agreements and you know, whatever accords. Let's

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Speaker 3: say they're nuclear deproliferation and all of that. And then

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Speaker 2: But fair is what's fair in love and war, you know,

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Speaker 2: and love and.

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Speaker 1: Nukes right right, right, and this is uh, this takes

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Speaker 1: us down so many interesting paths, you know, because nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 1: at least in the view of the US, nuclear weapons

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Speaker 1: like flying cars, right, Like if you have if flying

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Speaker 3: It, and if we all have them, then it's sort

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Speaker 3: of a zero sum game, you're right, and or mutually

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Speaker 1: M yeah, mad, and so people got real mad during

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Speaker 1: the first recorded case of broken arrow situation. It happened

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Speaker 1: on February thirteenth, nineteen fifty. There's a B thirty six

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Speaker 1: not a nuclear detonation.

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Speaker 3: No, but it did sort of have a domino effect,

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Speaker 3: you know, it set some parts in motion. In nineteen fifty,

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Speaker 3: we know of at least five broken arrow events in.

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Speaker 2: One year on year.

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Speaker 3: Great great, and the last one took place on November

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Speaker 2: Okay, tuy, not great, not like catastrophic, No, man, it's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Just uraniums. This little uranium, Just a.

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Speaker 1: Little uranium, right, just a sprinkle, you know, like Salt

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Speaker 1: Bay level. Unfortunately, you know, as you established, there were

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Speaker 1: many more Broken Arrow events, fifteen more throughout the nineteen fifties,

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Speaker 1: and we're not sure how many during the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: And Tzaria Gorvette you mentioned earlier, talks a bit about

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Speaker 1: the concept of mutually assured destruction with the Soviet Union.

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Speaker 1: This is the time of the Dead Hand. Remember we

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Speaker 1: did a stuff. They'll want you a new episode on that.

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Speaker 1: The dead Hands system that the Soviet Union had and

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Speaker 1: Russia probably still has at this to this day, is

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Speaker 1: a thing that is designed to instantly retaliate against a

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Speaker 1: very spooky stuff. People were rightly terrified, and because both

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Speaker 1: At all time, all year round. Twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: with a hilariously dumb name chrome dome.

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Speaker 2: Chrome dome. Why not? That's fun. Isn't a chrome dome

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Speaker 2: like sort of a I mean, it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: Oh, I thought chrome dome for some reason, I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: I think calling someone a chrome dome because speech, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: if you're a larious it's it's like figure.

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Speaker 2: Mean towards like Jonathan Strickland. Correct.

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Speaker 4: So, uh, this is kind of funny because the inspiration

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Speaker 4: of this episode came from me playing fall at four.

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Speaker 4: But chrome Dome is what they called the Gen one

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Speaker 4: since and fall at four, you know those creepy robots

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Speaker 4: that show up and try to kill you, pretty sure

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Speaker 4: they're chrome domes. And you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: nuke jokes in Fallouts, such as you know, the like

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Speaker 4: devastating weapons called the fat Man, which is the name

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Speaker 4: of the nukes that got dropped on.

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Speaker 2: And Little Boy. Yeah, and in the game it's like

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Speaker 2: a personal nuke. It's like shot. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, just also, just just to clarify, to chrome,

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Speaker 3: dumb is in fact a bald person. Specifically, it's idiomatic, indelicate,

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Speaker 3: and offensive. According to dictionary dot.

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Speaker 1: Org, we are against prejudice, of course, in any form here,

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Speaker 1: bald people are still people, right, right, right, And.

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Speaker 4: Even if their names trickland, I mean, Jonathan, don't want

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Speaker 4: to say lost name many times and all I'm showing

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Speaker 4: up or anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's be careful. We're on the precipice across

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Speaker 1: that rubicon. So where are these broken arrows happening all

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Speaker 1: over the place? South Dakota, Maryland, Texas, California, North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio. Also, of course, is Savannah, George.

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Speaker 3: It's right, Savannah, Georgia, the Redneck Riviera. Okay, that's not

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Speaker 3: quite right, but it is. It's a riviera of sorts.

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Speaker 3: I think the Redneck riv Era is like myrtle beach, right.

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Speaker 3: And again declassified classified documents. To the point we've been

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Speaker 2: Back to Zaria Gorvette for BBC Future. She writes.

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Speaker 1: It was a mild winter's morning at the height of

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, two giant fireballs hurling towards people. So yeah, this,

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Speaker 2: That we will just leave it. Was it poop? No, No,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why my mind went straight to poop.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say yes to you that ben okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: but body parts?

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Speaker 2: Got it? Got it?

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Speaker 3: Well, that was a diplomat. I'm sorry I led with poop.

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Speaker 4: It's a fair questions quest share on the planes for

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Speaker 3: You know, there's you know, flying pieces of of boop

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Speaker 2: Shrapnel, right, the stuff that the stuff, what's what slices? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I learned a dumb fact about shrapnel. Would you like

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Speaker 1: Uh, it is invented the inventor of shrapnel is a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like people like famous doctors whose names get associated

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Speaker 2: Was baseball? Was? He has nowhere war an als shirt?

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Speaker 1: We're all over the place right now, just like broken

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Speaker 3: And now it was game on to to to get

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Speaker 2: Isn't mega ton the name of a city or a settlement?

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Speaker 3: Isn't it the ship? Isn't it that the the big

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because the mayor or the sheriff of Megaton is

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Speaker 3: this fella with like a totally goofy western hat on

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Speaker 2: He's an NPC that you hang out with character. That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're giant nerds. Sorry, we keep bouncing on this one.

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Speaker 3: We're having fun with what is ultimately kind of a

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Speaker 2: By the way, looking forward to checking out the Barbie movie.

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Speaker 3: Uh and of courseheim on the same day.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps, But it's wild that that any that it could.

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Speaker 3: There could ever be a situation where something with this

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Speaker 2: You knows, it's wild.

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Speaker 1: One megaton is a unit of explosive force that equals

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Speaker 3: but it is beautiful and it really does. There's a

435
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Speaker 3: sequence where a nuke goes off where it just shows

436
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Speaker 3: and very graphic detail what would happen.

437
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 1: And the US military, the world's militaries are aware of

438
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 1: the dangers inherent in this kind of technology and weaponry,

439
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: so they want to get their nuke back, and the

440
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: military sends a crack team of experts to search the

441
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: bottom of the Mediterranean for this nuke. One of the

442
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: members of this team is a guy named Philip Myers.

443
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: Myers and his crew are thinking out of the box.

444
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: They're trying to imagine any possible way they can find

445
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: this nuke. So they get they get some help from

446
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: some weird sources. Two crazy inventions. One is some is

447
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: it a weird idea made up in the eighteenth century

448
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: by an amateur mathematician who used to be a Presbyterian minister,

449
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: and it helps people use information about past events to

450
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: calculate the probability of them happening in the future.

451
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called Beijian inference, I believe. Is that how

452
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: that's pronounced?

453
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 3: And then just you know, we're we're not math surgeons

454
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 3: here a ridiculous history, but it is, according to the interwebs,

455
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 3: a method of statistical inference in which this theorem Bayes'

456
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 3: theorem is used to update the product probability for a

457
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 3: hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Beyesian inference

458
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 3: is an important technique in statistics, and especially in mathematical statistics. Cool,

459
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 3: I feel dumber somehow. Yeah, they definitely were thinking outside

460
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: of the nuclear box.

461
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were saying, okay, maybe this will help

462
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: us predict where the bomb ultimately landed, like where it's

463
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: sank that's right, because it's a needle.

464
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: In a Hayes one hundred percent.

465
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 3: And then we have the delightfully named Alvin, which whenever

466
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 3: I see that where I can't help but say it

467
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 3: in Dave's angry voice, you know, from the Chipmunker. But gosh,

468
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 3: this is kind of prescient for some news of events.

469
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 3: A cutting edge deep sea ocean submarine able to dive

470
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 3: to unprecedented depths, described as looking like a rotund white shark.

471
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: And I have people in it. And this is in

472
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 2: the sixties.

473
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 3: Why are these startup douchebags imploding people in the two thousands.

474
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: Because they're going down much, much further and they're skipping

475
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: safety checks.

476
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 2: It was a bit of a rhetorical question.

477
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 4: And I just want to point out I wrote this

478
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: before that all happened, so no one accused me of

479
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 4: writing some bad taste.

480
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: It was fallout that motivated nobody. And it's an important fact.

481
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: It's an important fact because bays and inference is the

482
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: theory that informs their search, and Alvin is the vessel

483
00:26:49,440 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: that takes them there. They do find this miss nuke.

484
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: It's on March first, nineteen sixty six, and from the

485
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: declassified imagery. What you can see is that the the

486
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: tip of the missing nuclear weapon is covered by a

487
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: white parachute that it partially deployed, and it tangled itself

488
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: up with the nuke with the missile, and uh.

489
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: Looked kind of like a spooky ghost, isn't it. That's

490
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 2: what they're saying.

491
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm still blown away by this sub.

492
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 2: You know, existing in nineteen sixty six, in the way

493
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,959
Speaker 2: that they can find this. Yeah, it's Iran a million,

494
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 2: it's a lot.

495
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 3: And they certainly they were basically using maths and this

496
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 3: the sub, you know, and it's not like they had

497
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 3: crazy cameras or anything unmanned you know, vessels. You know,

498
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 3: this is sata really wild and really you know, enterprising.

499
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, apparently you know how those those nukes when

500
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 3: they deploy them, they often have a parachute.

501
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 2: Sure, so that, like you said, the thing was wrapped.

502
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 3: Around and it had this billowy They described it actually

503
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 3: in the piece for BBC Future as.

504
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: A ghostly shroud, ghostly shroud.

505
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: Well, and here's where it gets even weirder, Folks, finding

506
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: the nuke is not the same thing as retrieving the nuke.

507
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: They know where it is and the odds were against them,

508
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: and now Philip Myers and his team have to figure

509
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: out how to get this bomb out of the ocean

510
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: floor where it's thousands of feet into the depths, and

511
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: they have to do it without detonating the thing. So

512
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: they they tried they basically do if this is old school,

513
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: but if you've ever locked yourself out of a car

514
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: and used like.

515
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: A gym to get under and then.

516
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, close Hagler for sure that they tried to do

517
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: that with the with a nuclear weapon. The way they

518
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: describe it is, we improvise a kind of fishing line

519
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: out of thousands of feet of heavy duty nylon rope

520
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: and a metal hook at the end, just like breaking

521
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: into a car or try or trying to use those

522
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: I'm standing up trying to use those claw machine arcade

523
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: claw machine.

524
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: That's what they tried to do really quickly. Bet why

525
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: did the thing not detonate?

526
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 3: Aren't these things often like in these days on some

527
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 3: sort of pressure change detonator or like how is it

528
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 3: literally it's not a button do you hit? Is it

529
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 3: like remote controlled? Fully, I'm just different ones. Yeah, yeah,

530
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 3: it's a good question.

531
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 4: So I know on this one or at least around

532
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 4: this time, there was like a switch that had to

533
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 4: be had to be switched for like the material for

534
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 4: the bond to really come together to actually build a detonate.

535
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 4: So a lot of these cases it hadn't been switched

536
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: so like the stuff, they were separate elements had him

537
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 4: been pushed together.

538
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: It's like you drop this thing.

539
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 4: There's you know, the first one that the high matter

540
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 4: explosion went off, but since there.

541
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Speaker 2: Wasn't actually I don't think any uranium in it. There wasn't.

542
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 2: It wasn't a lot of them.

543
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 4: They'll say a nuclear detonation was not possible ICEE, which

544
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: is like safety, which is one of the safety measures

545
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 4: protecting it, which is good. We have one of them

546
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 4: down the road, and we tell you, guys, right now

547
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 4: where that safety measure fails.

548
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we're going to get to it again. These

549
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: are the B twenty eight thermonuclear bombs. There are a

550
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: couple of different variants. But even though it hasn't detonated,

551
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: and even though the team has been briefed on the

552
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: danger of these things, they're still, you know, rightly kind

553
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: of terrified. Meyers says, we were going very slowly, very cautiously,

554
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: and there's a funny line here. This guy feels like

555
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: he's cool to hang out with. Yeah, he says, So.

556
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: We just kind of waited around.

557
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: We were anxious, We wanted to we wanted to figure

558
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: out what we would do if we actually were able

559
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: to hoist it out of the water. And things go

560
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: wrong because they lift this thing from the ocean floor

561
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: and the parachute, which is in play, is slowing down

562
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: the effort because think about it now, it's a parachute

563
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: working in the.

564
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 2: Water in reverse.

565
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 3: And here's the thing too, man, I was already blown

566
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 3: away by the existence of this manned deep sea sub,

567
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: the small deep sea sub. They this doesn't work, They

568
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 3: ultimately fail. They deploy another kind of sub a month later,

569
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,719
Speaker 3: that is robotic. I would not have thought in the

570
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 3: sixties they would even have the ability to have remote

571
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 3: controlled robotic subs. It just goes to show, yes, but

572
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 3: also goes to show how much like the government holds

573
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: back from the consumer availability or from.

574
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, from even just like they're

575
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: always a couple steps ahead.

576
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: Oh of course, Yeah, the technological suppression is real. And

577
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: they had to use this robotic sub because Alvin or

578
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: little Alvin was almost stuck down there, tangled in the

579
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: parachute with the missing.

580
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 3: New wa Why didn't they send the robot in the

581
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: first place. It seems like that would have been the

582
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 3: smart move.

583
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: Maybe it was still very experimental. Maybe you know, I.

584
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you say, given the time period, something like that

585
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: would be very ahead of its time.

586
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so. Yeah.

587
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: So that's one example of a successful retrieval of a

588
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: broken arrow. What happens is the RoboSub is controlled by

589
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: a cable. It's able to grab the bomb by its

590
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 1: parachute and haul it up, and then they had to

591
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: disarm it. They managed to do it. It's a harrowing,

592
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: terrifying process. But it's one of the most successful broken

593
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: arrow cases. And as we're going to see, maybe maybe

594
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: we finished part one talking a little bit more about

595
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: the less successful cases here, because there are a number

596
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: of lost or broken arrows. So, like we said earlier,

597
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: how many broken arrows are out there, it depends on

598
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: who you ask. It's really tough to tell because a

599
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: lot of this is still classified. Some folks say it's six,

600
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: some say it's three, and some say many, many more.

601
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: It kind of.

602
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: Also depends on how you want to define it. So

603
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: if you don't have all the components installed on a weapon,

604
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: on a missile or a bomb, then does it count as.

605
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: A broken arrow? Ah?

606
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: Okay, if it's like a training session, you got a

607
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: dummy bomb there, then does I feel like this stuff

608
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: is dangerous enough that it should still count? You know,

609
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: like how you always treat a gun like it's loaded,

610
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: even if it's a prop.

611
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 2: Exactly, Yeah, Because I mean, as we know, sometimes when.

612
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 3: People think it's just a problem, it can still put

613
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: one right in your dumb.

614
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: Oh your chrome dough Yeah, indeed your chrome dome. Props

615
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 2: to the bald community.

616
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: So the first of the first of these lost arrows

617
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: is from our initial example. It's from the February thirteenth,

618
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty B thirty six bomber incident where they had

619
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: that engine trouble and the US military said, Okay, no

620
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: matter what happens, we're not going to have a crash

621
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: with a nuclear warhead on US soil. So drop the bomb,

622
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: the fat Man thirty kiloton Mark four into the Pacific Ocean.

623
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: And according to the official report, the bomb like you

624
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: you had said earlier, and all the bomb didn't have

625
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: that plutonium core you need for a nuclear detonation, so

626
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: some of the more pedantic people will say it doesn't

627
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 1: count as a broken arrow.

628
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: Another case, on March the tenth of nineteen fifty six

629
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 3: took place around six years after that first bomb was lost. Too.

630
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 3: Nuclear cores from a B forty seven bomber were lost

631
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: when that plane.

632
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: Crashed into the Mediterranean. Once again, it's Mediterranean. It's really

633
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 2: lousy with this stuff. It's a nukesponge. Yes, so perhaps

634
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 2: it had to do with the flight path.

635
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 3: It was specifically making the journey from McDill Air Force

636
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 3: Base in Florida to Ben Gerreer Air Force Base in Morocco.

637
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 3: It did it one of those really badass aerial refuels.

638
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 3: We're so cool, the pipe kind of comes down, they

639
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 3: Hovered's what a neat maneuver. But it failed to make

640
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 3: contact with a tanker for an additional refueling and was

641
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 3: then reported missing with the plane right.

642
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we don't know what kind of NUKA was carrying,

643
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: but we do know the B forty seven, this type

644
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 1: of plane at this time usually had a thirty four

645
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: hundred kilogram Mark fifteen nuclear bomb, and to this day,

646
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: no trace of the bomb nor the plane have ever

647
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 1: been found. So Mediterranean scavengers, treasure hunters, now it's your time.

648
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: Indeed, is that the kind of I don't know, man,

649
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 3: do you think do you think they are like amateur

650
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: nuke hunters?

651
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: You really?

652
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess it'd be a bit. But to

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Speaker 3: what end as an artifact or like for nefarius nefarious things.

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Speaker 1: Some of it nefarious, some of it just for the glory,

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Speaker 1: like eccentric treasure hunters.

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Speaker 2: The final bomb that.

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Speaker 1: Got lost, the final of the three lost and never recovered,

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Speaker 1: occurred sometime in the beginning of nineteen sixty eight. It

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Speaker 1: was the USS Scorpion, a nuclear sub that sank about

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Speaker 1: four hundred miles southwest of the Azores, and almost one

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Speaker 1: hundred people died ninety nine crew members. No one survived

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Speaker 1: on the sub. It was also carrying a pair of

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Speaker 1: nuclear tipped weapons, which yield like two hundred and fifty kilotons,

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Speaker 1: So immensely dangerous. And that's just part of the worry

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Speaker 1: right now, you know what, No, we've gotta got to

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Speaker 1: call this our two parter, gotta get out of here.

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Speaker 2: Uh. I gotta tell you I love this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I am I will rewatch Broken Arrow for you, dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna see.

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Speaker 2: Listen if I consider a seminal.

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Speaker 3: I use that term very very liberally. I have not

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Speaker 3: seen the film since it came out. It does currently

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Speaker 3: whole day. I think two and a half star rating

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Speaker 3: on IMDb.

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Speaker 2: Check. I did check, and I was right about the cast.

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Speaker 3: I remember practically nothing about the movie other than that

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Speaker 3: is where I first.

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Speaker 2: Learned the term Broken Arrow outside of the Brian Adams song.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I remember liking it because I

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Speaker 1: love those kind of movies when I was a kid.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember which film John Travolta, this is

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Speaker 1: Dary in his like face off villain face.

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Speaker 2: Right around there. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what the

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Speaker 2: film was where he was a hacker with a ponytail.

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Speaker 2: Was this swordfish? I didn't see sword Is that a thing?

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Speaker 2: It is a thing.

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Speaker 4: Remember him being a hacker with a pony hill? And

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Speaker 4: I have no idea, So I'm gonna say swordfish.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well we'll see. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: That is clearly, you know, maybe not the most important

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Speaker 1: mystery of today's show. I think that prize goes to

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Speaker 1: the missing nuclear weapons but please tune in for part two, folks,

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Speaker 1: We have much more to explore. Big big thanks to

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Speaker 1: our super producer and research associate for today's episode, mister

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Speaker 1: Max Williams.

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Speaker 3: Huge thanks to Alex Williams who composed this Slam and

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Speaker 3: jam and bam and bob you're listening to at this

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Speaker 3: very moment. Chris frasciotis here in spirit, Eves Jeff Coats

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Speaker 3: traversing this wild world.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland aka the Quister aka the John Travolta of

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Speaker 1: ridiculous history.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, except no point hell which it is swordfish.

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Speaker 3: Our personal Yeah, Crumdone would also be a really good

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Speaker 3: name for like a bald Bond villain m perhaps with

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Speaker 3: some sort of implant, like.

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Speaker 2: A metal are a he Man action figure? Oh definitely, yeah,

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Speaker 2: no question because they really kind of with basic with

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Speaker 2: the universe of he Man. That's the name of the

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Speaker 2: may character. We've talked about this, It's totally true. Why

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Speaker 2: is it she row anyway?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're in a raw stand for it sounds like

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Speaker 3: a like a battle cry. Yeah, We'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Books.

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