Ramree Island: The Crocodile Massacre Myth and the Real History
Ramree Island off the coast of Myanmar holds a Guinness World Record for the greatest disaster suffered from animals, with legends claiming hundreds of retreating Japanese soldiers were eaten alive by...
30 Jun 18min
Robert Hanssen: The FBI Mole Who Sold America's Secrets
By day he was a devout Catholic father of six who attended early-morning Mass. For more than two decades he was also a mole, selling America's deepest secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia in w...
30 Jun 25min
Project Orion: The Spaceship Powered by Nuclear Bombs
In 1958, a team of brilliant physicists proposed riding atomic explosions into space. Project Orion, funded by DARPA, NASA, and the Air Force, was a serious effort to build a spacecraft propelled by d...
30 Jun 20min
The Salton Sea: From Desert Riviera to Toxic Lithium Goldmine
Once a glamorous resort that drew bigger crowds than Yosemite, the Salton Sea is now a toxic desert wasteland where shores have been paved with millions of dead fish and dust clouds threaten local chi...
30 Jun 19min
ENIAC and the Six Women Erased From Computing History
When the world's first programmable electronic general-purpose computer was unveiled in 1946, the six brilliant women who actually programmed it were not even invited to the celebratory dinner. This e...
30 Jun 21min
Simo Hayha: The White Death and the Deadliest Sniper in History
A five-foot-three Finnish farmer named Simo Hayha became the deadliest sniper in any major war, credited with roughly 500 kills in fewer than 100 days during the Winter War of 1939 to 1940. This episo...
30 Jun 20min
Project Azorian: The CIA's Secret Plot to Steal a Soviet Sub
When a Soviet ballistic missile submarine sank in the Pacific in 1968, the U.S. Navy used a classified hydrophone network to pinpoint the wreck to a five-mile radius while the Soviets searched in vain...
30 Jun 26min
The Heavy Water Sabotage That Hunted Hitler's Atomic Bomb
During World War II, a small band of Norwegian commandos endured months in the frozen wilderness, surviving on moss and reindeer meat, to stop the Nazi nuclear program. This episode tells the story of...
30 Jun 22min
