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5 min readIn April 2021, the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala 402 vanished during live torpedo training exercises 100 kilometers off the north coast of Bali, carrying 53 crew members. News reports eventually stated the vessel had been found at 2,600 feet below the sea, cracked open and split into three pieces. The Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff, Yudo Margono, publicly assessed the ship as having been in perfect condition before departure, "ready for battle." But according to the account that follows—told by a man whose father worked on a secret project aboard that submarine—the official story conceals something far darker.
The Edgewood Arsenal Experiments and Mutation Breeding
At the core of this account is the Edgewood Arsenal human experiments, a Cold War-era program that tested low doses of chemical warfare agents on military personnel while exploring countermeasures like protective equipment and vaccines. One very secret portion of this program continued long after the official end of Edgewood's human experiments in 1975. The driving concern was how to fight a war in which nuclear weapons could decimate entire armies. Radiation exposure, even at minor dosages, would reduce a soldier's cognitive functions within two hours, leaving them effectively disabled before death. The military wanted soldiers who could enter fallout zones immediately after an atomic bomb detonation—somethi
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:02) **The Disappearance of KRI Nanggala 402** - The host introduces the official story of the Indonesian submarine that vanished in April 2021 with 53 people aboard, found split in three at 2,600 feet.
- 2 (02:21) **The Edgewood Arsenal Experiments & The Cold War Problem** - The host explains the real-world Edgewood Arsenal human experiments and the military’s need for radiation-resistant soldiers.
- 3 (05:59) **Project Eden: Human Mutation Breeding** - The host reveals the secret continuation of Edgewood’s work: a program to breed humans immune to radiation, conducted on submarines.
- 4 (10:57) **First Generation: The Beginning** - The host describes the first generation of 150 men and women taken from a screened pool and kept on three submarines.
- 5 (12:52) **Second Generation: Cultivating Desirable Traits** - The host details the second generation, which focused on breeding from the few "beneficial" mutants from the first generation.
- 6 (16:37) **The Third Generation: A Crisis of Size** - The host explains how the third-generation fetuses grew too large and too fast, becoming deadly to their mothers.
- 7 (20:47) **The "Beneficial" Third Generation** - The host focuses on the single "successful" third-generation child, who displayed non-cancerous rapid cell growth and was predicted to need a 16-month gestation.
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I found the Nanggala 402, I really wished I hadn't..
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