Jad Abumrad

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

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Radiolab · Atomic Artifacts · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

You need these quasi-religious artifacts from our past.

Objects that capture the idea of America that could be passed on to the folks who survived a nuclear attack so that they could rebuild it.

But the thing is, they only had essentially one helicopter set aside to save stuff.

The rest were reserved for saving people.

And so there was a large task force that came up with this list of artifacts that needed to be saved.

Now, unfortunately, we don't really know how they came to their decisions.

That information is apparently either lost to history or is still classified.

But we do know some of the items that they vetoed.

You know, the oil portraits of the former Joint Chiefs from the Pentagon and a number of animal skeletons.

And we also know of seven items that they landed on, that they decided needed to be saved.

So the sort of group A items, there were three of them, consisted of, maybe unsurprisingly, the Charters of Freedom.

So the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Okay, so the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, those feel like easy.

That's low-hanging fruit.

Yeah, that's easy.

But then we get to the sort of group B items, which get a little strange.

There are four of them that we know of.

So number one was a log from the USS Monitor.

Yes, which was a Civil War era battleship that the Union had and which was eventually sunk.

Yes.

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