Ep. 283: We Need To Talk About Operation Fishbowl: When The US Nuked Outer Space (Multiple Times)
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Ep. 283: We Need To Talk About Operation Fishbowl: When The US Nuked Outer Space (Multiple Times)

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Hey, welcome back to Well That's Interesting. The I Can't Believe We Did That But I Also Can Edition. Today is episode 283. We need to talk about Operation Fishbowl when the US nuked outer space multiple times.

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my friends. Would you look at the date? In just two short days, what's frequently referred to as the Great Experiment will throw its 250th birthday bash celebrating a government and a country whose odds of succeeding, to be honest, were not that great at the time of its founding. By the 1770s, republics and democracies

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were historically rare and were expected to fail if attempted because they're based on enlightenment ideals, flowery things such as self-governance, individual liberty, and equality. Rather than what the world has seen time and time again, countries rule by monarchy or force. As reported by Thomas Cohen's in the Ohio Capitol Journal, when

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