What was Operation Plowshare?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

America had already used two nuclear bombs to devastating effect when researchers thought "maybe we can use these bombs to dig big holes instead." That's right, atom bombs to replace bulldozers. And it worked great.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.7	Welcome to you, Stuff You Should Know from House stuffworks.com.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.2	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Rowland and this is Stuff You Should Know,
0:50.2	the podcast.
0:51.2	It's the bomb.
0:53.0	It is not the bomb, the bomb even.
0:56.0	That's right.
0:57.0	So add pun.
0:58.0	It is okay.
1:00.0	It worked for this one.
1:02.6	Have you heard?
1:03.6	Go ahead.
1:04.6	I was going to say you know what didn't work for this one was this.
1:08.0	The intro?
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