Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The History of the Firebombing
Curtis LeMay was a tough engineer from Ohio in the United States. He noticed that Japanese anti-aircraft cannon were designed to hit targets at 29,000 feet. The people in Hiroshima lived about three months longer than they would have had they been firebombed. Another one of the dark ironies of the war.
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