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The Biggest, Baddest Crash You've Never Heard Of

The Biggest, Baddest Crash You've Never Heard Of

Probably because it happened in the Amazon

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Brian Dunning
May 11, 2023
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Somewhere in the Amazon jungle is the wreckage of a big, bad red jet.

It was 1956 and the US Air Force was testing the Snark cruise missiles. Nothing quite like the Snark had ever been built before, or has been built since. ICBMs were in their infancy, and to fill the gap, we needed a fast way to deliver a nuclear payload overseas. And so the largest cru…

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