How Humanity Almost Destroyed Itself

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References:
List of Broken Arrows -- ve42.co/Atomic... ve42.co/Broken...
Declassified Goldsboro Report -- ve42.co/Goldsboro
Operation ChromeDome -- ve42.co/Operat...
CIA website -- ve42.co/CIA
Cataclysmic cargo: The hunt for four missing nuclear bombs after a B-52 crash -- ve42.co/WoPo
THE LAST FLIGHT OF HOBO 28 -- ve42.co/lastfl...
The Voice of Larry Messinger is from this documentary -- ve42.co/Messinger
Even Without Detonation, 4 Hydrogen Bombs From ’66 Scar Spanish Village -- ve42.co/NYTPal...
Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident -- ve42.co/NYTPal...
Picture of ReVelle -- ve42.co/JackRe...
Great NPR where the audio of ReVelle is from -- ve42.co/JackRe...
CIA Website -- 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
Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Pond5
Music from Epidemic Sound