Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I am your host James

Rogers and as you know every week I bring you two brand new episodes on military

history but once a week I like to delve deep into the Dan Snow's history hit archive and put out an episode that I think you'll enjoy.

This one I absolutely love. It's on the weirdest weapons of the 20th century.

Dan is joined by Vince Horton, who's curator of the 20th century. Dan is joined by Vince Horton, who's curator of the International

Spy Museum, and they talk about everything from exploding bats, Sonic Cats and aircraft

carriers made of icebergs through to the bizarre plans which involve detonating

nuclear missiles on the moon just to show that it could be done.

This is a really fun episode and as you'll hear many of these ideas came

closer to becoming a reality than you might think. Enjoy. Vince, thank you so much coming on the podcast.

I was happy to be here, man.

I mean, New King the Moon.

First of all, let's deal with New King the Moon to start with. I mean, what's going on there?

Yeah, I mean, this is one of many stories in the book, but it's the one we pulled out for the title,

but it's such a ridiculous idea. It's a ridiculous program.

And this comes on the heels of Sputnik in 1957,

where the Soviets beat us into space,

and it scares a loving hell out of everybody.

I mean, the idea of the Soviets beating us at something scientific was just

unheard of the United States or the West had been so prolific at developing all

the important scientific discoveries.

You know, we went to the car, the airplane, the chocolate chip cookie,

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