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Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death

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The Power of the Push of a Button

Kora Biyashi had studied in the United States at Harvard as a military attache. When he learned that his people plan to attack Pearl Harbor, he privately told his family that America was the last country in the world that Japan should fight. He immediately saw that the industrial mechanisms of America could be turned into a massive, unstoppable war machine with "the push of a button"

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