The Atomic Marine
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Richard Muniz tells the story of Toby Madrid and his experience of partaking in the testing of an atomic bomb in Nevada.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
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| 0:59.7 | From 1945 to 1992, the United States conducted 1,054 nuclear tests |
| 1:06.1 | as a part of the nuclear arms race with Soviet Russia. |
| 1:10.6 | Many of these tests were conducted in Nevada, |
| 1:13.1 | where soldiers were sent to be tested on by military scientists |
| 1:16.1 | and upper brass trying to figure out the psychological and health effects |
| 1:20.3 | brought on by the use of nuclear weapons. |
| 1:23.7 | One of those soldiers was Toby Madrid. |
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