John F. Kennedy
president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
Episodes
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#5798: Project Sundial: Teller's 10-Gigaton Doomsday ProposalEdward Teller proposed a 10,000-megaton bomb in 1954. The physics allowed it — the delivery problem killed it. -
#5509: The Long Tail of Spy StationsHow far does the CIA's station map actually reach? A 1961 memo to JFK and the agency's own map archive tell two very different stories. -
#5778: How J.K. Rowling Builds Characters That LastTwo notebooks, color-coded spreadsheets, and a pseudonym: how J.K. Rowling builds characters that outlive their pages. -
#5714: The Moon's Junkyard Has a Gift Shop150 tons of stuff sits on the Moon. Two objects on one square meter tell opposite stories: a $5.50 nylon flag and a silicon disc built for millennia. -
#5577: When the UN Goes Viral: Pitchers, Shoes, and 6-Second ClipsA six-second clip of a man drinking from a pitcher resurfaces as if it's new — inside the long history of the UN's most meme-able moments. -
#5555: Five Machines That Peaked at the Wrong MomentConcorde, Buran, Iridium: the finest machines ever built for a paradigm that vanished while they were still on the drawing board.