164 - The Manhattan Project

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 147 minutes

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The Manhattan Project! The United States gathered all the best minds it could find to develop atomic weapons before the Germans or Japan beat them to the nuclear WW2 punch. And then, after Germany and Italy had already been defeated, America dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was this action morally justified? And how did the United States keep a giant weapons project a secret for as long as they did? Find out all this and more in today's Timesuck! Check out Lynze and I's new horror podcast Scared to Death. Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Youtube, and more! Here's the iTunes link: https://apple.co/2MRMgai Donating $3500 this month to the Patriot Guard Riders nonprofit! - https://www.patriotguard.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) November 7-9 Denver, CO Comedy Works (downtown) CLICK HERE for tix! ** November 10 - Denver, CO LIVE TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! ** November 21-23 Grand Rapids, MI Dr. Grins (at the B.O.B) CLICK HERE for tix! ** November 23 Grand Rapids, MI LIVE TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! ** December 5-7 Tacoma, WA Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE TIMESUCK Tacoma, WA Tacoma Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Go to FELIXGRAYGLASSES.com/timesuck for free shipping and 30 days of risk-free returns or exchanges. Get a free trial of the entire Great Courses library: TheGreatCoursesPLUS.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/yzt9UjBxqik Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 6000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	You check your hazmat suit three times to make sure it's airtight.
0:03.3	One rip could be lethal.
0:05.2	You've just taken two of the potassium iodide tablets you save for exactly this moment.
0:09.8	Your face is clean, shaving for the first time in half a decade.
0:12.9	Your CM7M gas mask won't probably seal over a beard.
0:17.2	Your gas filtration canisters locked in good to go with the shelf life of another 10, 15 years.
0:22.9	You don't really want to leave, but you can't stay underground any longer.
0:25.8	You're dangerously close to running out of generator fuel.
0:28.9	You have no more than a week's worth of vacuum seal dehydrated rations.
0:33.1	For the last five years, you've lived over 30 feet underground,
0:36.0	spending your days in an abandoned missile silo converted into a doomsday bunker, a decade ago.
0:41.4	Your family thought you were insane to buy it, living alone with no kids.
0:45.0	You could have easily retired 15 or 20 years early.
0:47.4	About two homes outright with the money it took to build it.
0:50.0	But you knew in your bones that the war was coming, a bad one.
0:53.4	One unlike the world had ever seen.
0:55.2	You told your only brother that he and his family could stay with you.
0:58.2	The five of you could have lived for over two years, easy in this place,
1:02.3	but they never survived the initial blasts.
1:05.4	You told him to get out of downtown, get away from the city.
1:07.9	Don't move anywhere near a military base, but he didn't listen.
1:11.2	Now he and his family are dead.
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