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Behind the Bastards

Part Five: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture, News

4.415.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world.

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0:00.0

And we're back. It's behind the bastards. This is our special episodes on the guys who built the nuclear doomsday machine that could kill us all at any moment. Episode five, the end is finally in sight. That could be literal.

0:21.9

Margaret Kiljoy, welcome back to the program.

0:24.7

How you doing?

0:25.8

I'm doing great.

0:26.9

I've gone full circle.

0:28.1

I've accepted that this is reality, and I am just very happy to get to live in these times.

0:35.0

It's great that you got to that point because actually the next 10 pages are all Warhammer.

0:39.9

I just stopped writing about nukes at a certain point, but you can just assume that that's

0:43.9

real.

0:44.8

Yeah, because that's what your brain does when presented with this much disaster is you're like,

0:49.5

man, I really like fantasy books.

0:52.0

Yeah, I'm just going to relax to the comfort of a game where every single person is worse than Hitler.

0:57.6

Like where Hitler would be a moderate bleeding hearts.

1:04.4

This is an I-Heart podcast.

1:09.3

Guaranteed Human.

1:18.5

Let's get back to talking about this insane Minuteman system.

1:22.9

Because we've talked about some of the shit that's crazy about this, but we still have not gotten to the craziest thing about this, right?

1:25.1

Oh, good.

1:25.8

So when we left off, John Rubel has been having in

1:28.8

59 and started 60s, he's having conversations with all these Air Force guys about the Minuteman

1:34.3

system. And he's come up with some serious concerns about, well, how do we decide when these

1:41.1

things are fired? When you choose to shoot one, how do the other nine get launched?

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