Part Four: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

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ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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