Project Chariot: The US Government's Plan To Nuke Alaska SIX Times

Check out Red Atoms, the series that documents the Soviet atomic bomb program, over on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/redatoms?ref=joescott Operation Plowshare was a US Government program in the 1950s that had the goal of finding peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. And yes, you read that right. It was partly a sincere effort to find practical uses for the most awesome power humanity had ever harnessed, and partly a cynical attempt to justify stockpiling nukes. One of those Plowshare projects was called Project Chariot, which aimed to create a new harbor in Alaska by setting off SIX hydrogen bombs in a river inlet near Cape Thompson. This is the story of that insane idea. Want to support the channel? Here's how: Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Channel Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2YHgc363EdcusLIBbgxzg/join T-Shirts & Merch: https://laughsmarter.com Book of Mysteries: https://a.co/d/0gRx0qvM Documentary: https://nebula.tv/oldestnewest Check out my 2nd channel, Joe Scott TMI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqi721JsXlf0wq3Z_cNA_Ew And my podcast channel, Conversations With Joe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzc7TiJ2nnuyJkUpOZ8RKA You can listen to my podcast, Conversations With Joe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Spotify 👉 https://spoti.fi/37iPGzF Apple Podcasts 👉 https://apple.co/3j94kfq Google Podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/3qZCo1V Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads https://groundtruthalaska.org/articles/ProjectChariot/ https://st.llnl.gov/news/look-back/plowshare-program https://www.osti.gov/opennet/reports/plowshar.pdf https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/actual-1950s-proposal-nuke-alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome_(nuclear_test)) https://www.nps.gov/people/manhattan-project-scientists-edward-teller.htm https://www.uaf.edu/tribal/academics/112/unit-2/alaskastatehoodandbuilduptoalaskanativelandclaims.php https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/were-going-to-work-miracles/ https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/cold-war/page-6.html https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/project-chariot https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/slideshows/counties-with-the-highest-cancer-rates-in-the-us?slide=3 https://alaskapublic.org/news/2014-08-09/as-project-chariot-clean-up-ends-legacy-lingers-for-point-hope https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1992/12/06/053092.html?pageNumber=26 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:20 - The Atomic Craze 2:39 - Operation Plowshare 4:47 - Project Chariot 8:55 - The Problem 12:40 - Conspiracies 15:20 - Sponsor - Nebula