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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Plan To Build A New US Highway With Nuclear Bombs
Description: This week in 1964, the US Atomic Energy Commission presented a report to Congress on an eye-opening idea: clearing land for a highway in southeast California with nuclear bombs. Plus: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan release their annual list of the weirdest reasons people have called 911 there.
America Almost Made a New Route 66 With 22 Nuclear Bombs (The Drive)
Mean cats, fox on the loose, math problems among calls to Sask. RCMP that 'missed the mark' (CBC)
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