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We don't often image Miami as a city of Cold War subterfuge akin to Berlin or Vienna. But according to Vince Houghton, co-author of COVERT CITY, Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War, he argues. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. On reflection, it make sense. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, the DC based Houghton explains, Miami has emerged as America's most fertile city for espionage over the last half century. Dr. Vince Houghton is the former Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum. As the museum's subject matter expert, he was a key member of the team that created and developed the content, exhibits, and design of the new museum. Vince has a PhD in Intelligence History, and is the author of two books – Nuking the Moon: and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board and The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin. Dr. Houghton is currently the Director of the National Cryptologic Museum in Ft. Meade, MD.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe
History is loaded with "bad" / "dumb" ideas. And this includes those made by high-ranking officials and government agencies. Looking at the various schemes and plots left on the drawing board one wonders how anyone took them seruously. But most of today's useful inventions were deemed absurd at the time. This tells us that we need to have a lot of bad ideas to land on good ones, and if that's true, then we should be more concerned with taking the shots, then landing the shots.Suggested Reading Related to Intro ExampleNuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince HoughtonEpisode Music for Intro ExampleSneaky by Oleg KyrylkovvSupport the show
Today, Justin sits down with Vince Houghton. Vince is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in the Balkans. He went on to receive a Master's Degree and PhD in Diplomatic and Military history from the University of Maryland. He spent more than six years as the historian and curator for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and is now the director of the National Cryptologic Museum located on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland. This week Vince discusses Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. As you can already surmise from that title, it's a close look at some of the most incredible plans never put into action spanning the 20th century and beyond. Connect with Vince:Twitter: @IntelHistorianCheck out Nuking the Moon here.https://www.amazon.com/Nuking-Moon-Intelligence-Schemes-Military/dp/0525505172Connect with Spycraft 101:Check out Justin's latest release, Covert Arms, here.spycraft101.comIG: @spycraft101Shop: spycraft-101.myshopify.comPatreon: Spycraft 101Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.Support the show
Vince Houghton PhD, Director, National Cryptologic Museum, former Historian/Curator International Spy Museum, gives an entertaining overview of his 2019 book, "Nuking the Moon...and Other Intelligence Themes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board." Mr. Houghton reveals some of the wild schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane! Recorded 20 Nov 2020. Interviewer: David Priess, PhD, former CIA Analyst, PDB Briefer, and author. Host: James Hughes, AFIO President and former CIA Operations Officer.
Dr. Vince Houghton is the historian and curator at the International Spy Museum and joined ClearanceJobs for a chat on everything intelligence and espionage. Vince specializes in military and intelligence history, with specific expertise on late-WWII and early-Cold War eras. Prior to joining the International Spy Museum, Vince was a history professor at the University of Maryland, and is also former U.S. Army. He is the author of two books – Nuking the Moon: and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board and The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin. Vince became interested in everything espionage, specifically nuclear weapons, as a young boy after reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb , by Richard Rhodes. Science & Technology really sucked him in after working through grad school where he became fascinated with nuclear weapon systems and other related concepts. Learn more on intel: news.clearancejobs.com/2020/08/10/secrets-covert-action-and-intelligence-experts-shaping-history Learn more on nuclear weapons intel: https://news.clearancejobs.com/2020/07/29/threat-analysts-real-life-dungeons-dragons-with-nuclear-weapons/
Vince Houghton is the historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He is also the host and creative director of the Museum's podcast, SpyCast. His new book is Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. Houghton explains how the Cold War spawned fantastical science fiction-like weapons programs and plans by the United States government and the Pentagon such as atomic bomb-powered spacecraft, nuking the moon, psychic soldiers with the powers of telekinesis and mind control, and cyborg cats and other animals. Houghton also shares his thoughts on Russia's new “wonder weapons” such as doomsday submarine drones and hypersonic nuclear-powered cruise missiles. And it appears that Donald Trump was not so crazy in his suggestion about using nuclear weapons to deflect or perhaps even neutralize hurricanes. Chauncey DeVega reflects on another crazy week in TrumpWorld which saw the Republicans declare Trump a king in the Senate, and his deranged State of the Union Speech which was an amazing and great television spectacle. Chauncey also shares some new public opinion and other data which shows, again, that Donald Trump will likely win again in 2020 and that the Democratic Party and its supporters are profoundly horrible at politics and winning. And Chauncey shares a story about his perilous, harrowing, horrible recent trip on the city bus and how it symbolizes America's broken and sick society in the Age of Trump. SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW Republicans and Democrats live in “nearly inverse news media environments,” Pew finds Trump has highest economic approval rating of any president in the last 20 years: new poll Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49% January jobs report: Economy adds 225,000 payrolls, unemployment rate ticks up to 3.6% New High of 90% of Americans Satisfied With Personal Life New survey shows Americans are unhappier than they've been in years What the economy tells us about Trump's reelection odds “We're losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com Leave a voicemail for The Chauncey DeVega Show: (262) 864-0154 HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow Please subscribe to and follow my new podcast The Truth Report https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-truth-report-with-chauncey-devega/id1465522298 http://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.
International Spy Museum Historian and Curator and author of Nuking the Moon and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board Vince Houghton comes on the show to chat about spying kitties, exploding bats and melting icebergs.
On The Gist, the metal straw incident. In the interview, Vince Houghton is a historian and the curator of the International Spy Museum and he’s here to talk about his new book Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. Why did we want to drop goat poop on Germans? Can a cat be trained for espionage? In the Spiel, the citizenship question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On The Gist, the metal straw incident. In the interview, Vince Houghton is a historian and the curator of the International Spy Museum and he’s here to talk about his new book Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. Why did we want to drop goat poop on Germans? Can a cat be trained for espionage? In the Spiel, the citizenship question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vince Houghton, director of the International Spy Museum, returns to take me on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or insane. These include weaponing animals such as eavesdropping cats, spooky glow in the dark foxes, and one plan to strap incendiary bombs to bats! He reveals some of the CIA’s wackier attempts to take out Castro, the nazi scientist who tried to build a sun gun, and the Florida meteorologist who thought it would be a good idea to use a nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes. But just when you think it couldn’t get any crazier, Vince discusses the project that inspired the title of his new book - the U.S. military plan to nuke the moon! Order Vince Houghton's book Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board on Amazon, Audible, and in bookstores. Today's podcast was sponsored by The Skimm and AncestryDNA.
We talk with Vince Houghton – Curator of the International Spy Museum who has just written a new book called “Nuking the Moon & Other Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board"If you’d to send us a few quid to help me run the podcast click here. Thankyou so much to our latest SupportersLeaving reviews on Itunes also helps so thanks to our latest reviewers Cheeses Word 101, Martini Glass Bob, Zach 1998!, GM0WDD, Balint Kaman, Trilbyhat, Skjip1969, Peteyinmontreal, GDR ObjectifiedSo back to today’s episode, do listen to the end as we talk Cold War Espionage whilst Vince answers my “Quick Fire” questions. We welcome Vince Houghton to our Cold War ConversationSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/coldwarpod)
The Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space in 1957. By 1958, thanks in part to the work of famed scientist Carl Sagan, the Pentagon had a plan to show the commies what for by nuking the moon. Thankfully, it was just a plan. One that the U.S. never acted on. But it’s far from the only military scheme the US and others cooked up over the years. From bat bombs to an aircraft carrier built from an iceberg, military history is full of outlandish and ridiculous schemes best left abandoned at the planning stages.Here to help us untangle these James Bond sounding plots is Vince Houghton. Houghton is a U.S. Army vet who served in the Balkans. Now, he is the historian and curator at the international Spy Museum in Washington D.C. He collected the wild schemes from America’s past in the new book Nuking the Moon and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board.You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is warcollegepodcast.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/; and on Twitter: @War_College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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As the Trump administration is stupidly considering going to war with Iran, Nicole Sandler brings some insight into other stupid military projects our government has proposed by talking with Vince Houghton, historian/curator of the International Spy Museum and author of the new book, Nuking the Moon And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board . Plus the latest news from Alabama and beyond Gilead.
This week Alice and Kim talk about Soviet spy cats, French history, and Harper Lee and a murder trial. This episode is sponsored by Kawaii Craft Life by Sosae Caetano and Dennis Caetano and Book Riot’s TBR. Check out Book Riot Insiders for the inside scoop! Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. New Books Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future by Joseph C. Sternberg The Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World by Peter Moore The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Synder The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy Nonfiction About France KIM: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss La Belle France: A Short History by Alistair Horne The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J Mazzeo Veuve Clicquot Podcast The Little Pleasures of Paris by Leslie Jonath Reading Now KIM: Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook) ALICE: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.
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Guest-host, Jefferson Smith explores the disturbing escalation of the far right with David Neiwert author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. - Igor Volsky, Executive Director of Guns Down America considers what we've learned in the year since the Parkland shooting murders. - Jefferson engages with Noah Smith, author and opinion columnist at Bloomberg News on the practicality of the Green New Deal. - Thom Hartmann Book Club: Thom's reading from Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board – by Vince Houghton - Continuation of interview with Noah Smith. - Talk Media News - Bob Ney, fluent speaker of Farsi and expert on Iran, is our guide on the 'Highway to Hell' as Trump and Netanyahu appear to be orchestrating a possible lead up to war with Iran.
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