#cold-war-history
2 episodes
#5798: Project Sundial: Teller's 10-Gigaton Doomsday Proposal
Edward Teller proposed a 10,000-megaton bomb in 1954. The physics allowed it — the delivery problem killed it.
#5795: Digging Harbors with Nuclear Bombs: Project Plowshare
From Sedan's 104-kiloton crater to a plan for 520 bombs in the Negev — how the atomic age tried to become civil engineering.