Episode
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear
Planet Money · Dec 10, 2025 · 36 min
From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last century got their start as military R&D projects in government-funded labs. But as Avery Trufelman explains in her fashion history podcast, Articles of Interest , the influence of the US military is, in many ways, even more intimate than that, shaping much of the…