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183. History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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I'm Not a Fan of Truman, but He's Not Deciding in a Vacuum, Is He?

Truman didn't even know about the bomb, right? Or mean, that's how cloistered he was. He'd only been a vice sident for like five minutes. The numbers of people that were killed by the atomic bombs, which look horrible by to day's standard, are huge. And so to sit there and focus on,. god, these are huge numbers, is to ignore what the japanese military was doing on the ground every so another wards, if you put a blockade, they're still killing. All those civilians in china, they have the option of holding in a prisoners of war sort of hostage to i mean, the's a lot that could happen.

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