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Blast From the Past

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Blast From the Past

Shortly before sunrise on Sept. 22, 1979, a U.S. surveillance satellite known as Vela 6911 recorded an unusual double flash as it orbited the earth above the South Atlantic. At Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, where it was still nighttime on Sept. 21, the staff in charge of monitoring the satellite’s transmissions saw the unmistakable pattern produced by a nuclear explosion—something U.S. satellites had detected on dozens of previous occasions in the wake of nuclear tests. The Air Force base issued an alert overnight, and President Jimmy Carter quickly called a meeting in the White House Situation Room the next day.

When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’ – The American Prospect

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When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’ – The American Prospect

Building on the success of the New Deal, FDR added Wallace, initially his agriculture secretary, as vice president in 1940, dumping segregationist Democrat John Nance Garner. Roosevelt felt that Wallace could succeed him and ultimately continue on the work of the New Deal. More importantly, FDR needed Wallace’s energy and vision to help make the case to the American public to back the war effort.

As vice president, Wallace spent the war years touring the U.S. with a vigor that the wheelchair-bound FDR couldn’t, arguing that in order to truly win the war against fascism abroad, the United States must take on racism, sexism, and economic inequality at home, or risk the rise of a new “American fascism.”

May the Best Firebomb Win

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May the Best Firebomb Win

7/16/2020 by Pushkin Industries

Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=109770566
Episode: https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/39E17/traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD3463123798.mp3

Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two.

The nutty and horrific story of how nepalm came to be. Unthinkable now but came out of a horrific war.

Map: Rogers Island Wildlife Management Area