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On November 12, 1970, a cyclone hit the country of Bangladesh (which was known as East Pakistan at the time) that through a combination of bad timing, location, miscommunication, and political malice became the deadliest storm in human history, killing more than half a million people in one day. It became known as the Bhola Cyclone, and it set in motion a series of events that led to a genocide, a revolution, and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropica...
https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/banglade...
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_...
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/space...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bh...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partiti...
https://www.wired.com/story/cyclonep...
http://www.hurricanescience.org/histo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bh...

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:00 The Deadliest Storm
3:11 Mohammad Hai
5:27 ITOS 1 and Neil Frank
6:54 The New Alert
8:46 Pakistan's History
14:57 Sponsor Nebula
16:04 Operation Searchlight
20:33 Conversations With Joe & Patreon