Jad Abumrad

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6,321 appearances 21 recordings 5 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radiolab · Neither Confirm Nor Deny · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Does it mean something?

And she said that was a glomer response.

Glomar is G-L-O-M-A-R.

Glomar.

What did you think just of the word?

So I started looking into it and right away found this nutty story involving a nuke, a claw, a billionaire, some manganese, and this classic tension between secrets being really necessary and really harmful.

Some manganese.

But to get there, you have to start with this guy.

Let's just start out by getting your name and how we should identify you.

This makes it all much more mysterious.

What have been some of your other names?

So in the late 60s, David was working at the CIA.

He'd been there for a while.

And he got called onto this new thing called Project Azorian.

Here's what you need to know.

In the late 60s, the U.S.

and the USSR were playing this high-stakes chess game with their nuclear submarines, cruising around international waters.

Inching on each other's territories.

In fact, in January of 1968, a U.S.

naval ship was captured after leaving Japan, and everyone was worried that the Soviets had our code books.

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