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References:

List of Broken Arrows -- https://ve42.co/AtomicArchive https://ve42.co/BrokenArrowsReport

Declassified Goldsboro Report -- https://ve42.co/Goldsboro

Operation ChromeDome -- https://ve42.co/OperationChromeDome

CIA website -- https://ve42.co/CIA

Cataclysmic cargo: The hunt for four missing nuclear bombs after a B-52 crash -- https://ve42.co/WoPo

THE LAST FLIGHT OF HOBO 28 -- https://ve42.co/lastflight

The Voice of Larry Messinger is from this documentary -- https://ve42.co/Messinger

Even Without Detonation, 4 Hydrogen Bombs From ’66 Scar Spanish Village -- https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares

Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident -- https://ve42.co/NYTPalomares2

Picture of ReVelle -- https://ve42.co/JackReVelle1

Great NPR where the audio of ReVelle is from -- https://ve42.co/JackReVelle2

CIA Website -- https://ve42.co/CIA

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Directed by Petr Lebedev

Written by Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller

Edited by Peter Nelson

Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Jakub Misiek, Ivy Tello and Mike Radjabov

Filmed by Derek Muller

Produced by Petr Lebedev, Han Evans, and Derek Muller

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Music from Epidemic Sound