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The Nuclear Bomb We Lost in Georgia
The Nuclear Bomb We Lost in Georgia
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- The Nuclear Bomb We Lost in Georgia · 9 minIn this episode of Paul G’s Corner Most people think history is made up of dates, speeches, and grainy footage of important people standing behind microphones. But sometimes…
- Buried Alive. 26 Children. One California Quarry · 16 minBuried Alive: 26 Children. One Quarry. Chowchilla, California – July 15, 1976 We’ve all seen the buried-alive clock on television.The confined space.The ticking air supply.The…
- Church Rock, 1979 · 13 minOn July 16, 1979, at approximately 5:30 a.m., an earthen dam at the United Nuclear Corporation uranium mill in Church Rock, New Mexico, breached. The tailings pond behind it held…
- The Day Philadelphia Dropped a Bomb on Itself · 16 minOn May 13, 1985, Philadelphia dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential neighborhood. That sentence is not metaphorical. In this episode of Paul G’s Corner, we examine…
- Don’t Boil the Water. Charleston WV · 12 minn January 2014, something quietly broke in West Virginia. A storage tank leaked a coal-processing chemical called MCHM (meth-uhl cyclo-hex-ane meth-uh-nol) into the Elk River…
- Panic in Paradise · 15 minOn a quiet Saturday morning in 2018, Hawaii got the worst text message imaginable:Ballistic missile inbound. This is not a drill. For 38 minutes, an entire state waited for…
- Legionnaires: The Outbreak No One Saw Coming · 11 minIn 1976, hundreds of American Legion veterans walked into a Philadelphia hotel for a weekend of reunions, war stories, and cheap drinks. Within days, dozens would be dead. No…
- The Night The World Almost Ended… And Nobody Noticed · 9 minNothing says welcome back to Paul G’s Corner like learning the world nearly cooked itself in 1969 while everyone was cheering for astronauts and yelling about Vietnam. History…
- The Day the Mail Became a Weapon · 14 minMost Americans remember the smoke, the debris, the sirens of September 11.Far fewer remember what came next. A week later, before the country even finished counting its dead…
- The Christmas Panic That Changed Every Door in America · 7 minOne word. Seventy-three dead.On Christmas Eve, 1913, someone yelled fire in a packed miner’s hall — and changed building safety forever. Every outward-swinging door, every…
- The Fortune Teller Killer · 20 minChicago. 1912.The air hung heavy—coal smoke and lake wind trapped between brick tenements and unkept promises. It was an age of mediums and miracle cures, when grief was a…
- Project Pluto: The Missile That Wouldn’t Die · 9 minIn 1964, deep in the Nevada desert, America tried to make a nuclear reactor fly.At a place called Jackass Flats — a name too perfect to be a coincidence — engineers tested an…
- The Nurse Who Walked Through Hell (and Took Notes) · 32 minSome people escape their past. Others study it, survive it, and turn it into a lesson for the rest of us. This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Meg Hall, a nurse who grew up…
- The Buffet of Flies — When Delivery Apps Eat Their Own · 35 minThe American dream didn’t vanish—it got shrink-wrapped, up-charged, and delivered late. This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Micco Costello, a former restaurant owner turned…
- From Bad Pitches to Bold Ideas: Eugene Mandelcorn in the Corner · 31 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 5This week in Paul G’s Corner, we sit down with Eugene Mandelcorn — a man who’s heard more bad film pitches than a Little League coach on a losing streak. Eugene ran an…
- Staged Terror, Signed in Blood · 9 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 4In 1962, the Pentagon’s highest brass drafted a plan that reads today like madness on paper. They called it Operation Northwoods. The logic was simple, the methods monstrous…
- Six Nuclear Weapons Still Missing. · 11 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 3They call it Project Broken Arrow. A phrase meant to sound clean, contained, under control. But the truth is anything but. Since the 1950s, American bombers have dropped nuclear…
- The School That Melted a Child’s Head · 10 minIn 1927, a hospital “cure” for ringworm burned a child’s skull. He wore a hat for eighty years. This is the record—how a promise of progress became a lifetime of harm. Get full…
- The Woman Who Glowed in the Dark · 10 min · Sezonul 3 Episodul 1Karen Silkwood knew too much. What happened to her on that empty Oklahoma highway still echoes in Congress, in courtrooms—and in the dark. This is The Woman Who Glowed in the…
- The Bombs We Chose to Forget · 17 minFebruary 1984. A second bomb rips through the National War College. No casualties. No arrests. Just another hole in the floor and a deeper one in the American psyche. Most people…
