The Plan To Build A New US Highway With Nuclear Bombs

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

This week in 1964, the US Atomic Energy Commission presented a report to Congress on an eye-opening idea: clearing land for a highway in southeast California with nuclear bombs. Plus: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan release their annual list of the weirdest reasons people have called 911 there. America Almost Made a New Route 66 With 22 Nuclear Bombs (The Drive) Mean cats, fox on the loose, math problems among calls to Sask. RCMP that 'missed the mark' (CBC) Help our show blow up (online) as a backer on Patreon

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