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Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster

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The Importance of Jubilation in the War on Hiroshima

When Truman told the crew of the ship taking him back to America that the atomic bomb had destroyed the city of Hiroshima, he was met with a resounding chair and thunderous applause. The next day, the White House released a press statement to the world revealing that we dropped the biggest bomb in history on theCity of Hiroshima. Although the statement made a point to call Hiroshima a quote unquote important army base. And as I said in the first episode, America tends to excel at the act of overcorrecting then telling the civilians they kill in the process that you made us do this. It's like a it's like that stupid slap competition, but with like a little person who sl

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