Nasser's Missile Program and Operation Damocles (w. Devon)

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Failure To Launch

Failure To Launch Podcast

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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.

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This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.

Aviation

Leisure

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Nasser's Missile Program and Operation Damocles (w. Devon)

Failure To Launch

1 hour 53 minutes 23 seconds

1 month ago

Nasser's Missile Program and Operation Damocles (w. Devon)

In 1962, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt (or the UAR) showed the world his newest toys: a set of tiny, dinky missiles that could carry 60 kilos of explosives apiece. Needless to say, the head of the Israeli Mossad flipped out and ordered a campaign of assassinations on the German scientists who'd built them. This week, we're talking to Devon from the Kill James Bond podcast about Operation Damocles: a story of dumb rockets and dumber spies.

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Sources:

- Reflections on Egypt, the Middle East, and History, Khaled Fahmy

- Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East, Owen Sirrs

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