About this episode

This episode discusses the overlooked race during the Cold War focused on drilling the world's deepest hole.

During the Cold War all eyes were on the Space Race between the US and USSR. But there was another, overlooked race too and it went in the opposite direction.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• Cold War
• Space Race
• Kola Superdeep Borehole
• USSR
• US
• geology
• exploration

Keywords

• Kola
• deepest hole
• Cold War
• USSR
• US
• Space Race
• geology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US, USSR

Places: Space Race

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