When We Nearly Nuked the Moon

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Vince Houghton joins me on the podcast today to talk about some of the weirdest and craziest ideas put forward during the twentieth century. We're talking exploding bats, sonic cats, aircraft carriers made of icebergs and detonating a nuclear missile on the moon just to show that you could do it! This is a really fun episode and as you'll hear many of these ideas came closer to becoming reality than you might think.

Vince Houghton is the historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He also is the host and creative director of the Museum's podcast, SpyCast, which reaches a national and international audience of over 2.5 million listeners each year.

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0:44.8	New King the Moon.
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0:47.8	We all thought shooting the moon was an expression of what game do you shoot the moon?
0:51.4	Can't remember.
0:52.4	Is it Marjon?
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