Aug 28, 2026 · 2 hr 31 min · 17 segments
Broken Arrows. Wtf is that, some might say. Well, it's a term for MISSING NUKES! Yep, like the ones the United States has "accidentally dropped", like 37 times... most on US soil. Don't forget to…
Jonathan SayreHostMoodyHost
No newspaper headlines warned that an American bomber carrying an atomic weapon had disappeared over Canada.
There was no televised announcement, no presidential address, and no public accounting of the terrifying gamble that had just unfolded over the North Pacific.
It was the first time in history that the United States had lost an atomic weapon.
The military would later give such events an ominous codename, and that would be Broken Arrow.
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America possessed the world's most powerful weapon, but the monopoly was ending.
In August of 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, shocking U.S. intelligence and dramatically escalating Cold War tensions.
Military planners feared a surprise Soviet attack and were developing plans for long-range nuclear strikes in return.
Do you have the name of their first nuke? Because I remember it.
Russian nuke that they detonated or whatever? It was like a big fucking deal.
It was Yuri! Look at me! Get the fuck out of here! Stop it!
Yuri could have sent, he could have shot a nuke into space to get his space rope up there.
No newspaper headlines warned that an American bomber carrying an atomic weapon had disappeared over Canada.
There was no televised announcement, no presidential address, and no public accounting of the terrifying gamble that had just unfolded over the North Pacific.
It was the first time in history that the United States had lost an atomic weapon.
The military would later give such events an ominous codename, and that would be Broken Arrow.
We go
around
America possessed the world's most powerful weapon, but the monopoly was ending.
In August of 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, shocking U.S. intelligence and dramatically escalating Cold War tensions.
Military planners feared a surprise Soviet attack and were developing plans for long-range nuclear strikes in return.
Do you have the name of their first nuke? Because I remember it.
Russian nuke that they detonated or whatever? It was like a big fucking deal.
It was Yuri! Look at me! Get the fuck out of here! Stop it!
Yuri could have sent, he could have shot a nuke into space to get his space rope up there.
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