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The Father of Space Travel
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The War on Terror: The V2 Project
The V2 did more damage to the German war effort than the cruelty inflicted on many hundreds of thousands, if not a million people. So much money that could have been spent on planes, fighter planes, or tanks was going on this V2. But it did cause mass starvation purely because of the all the potatoes,. The potatoes required to make the alcohol, which was an important part of fueling this rocket. And millions of people were starving to death in Eastern Europe at the time.
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