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Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation

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The Dangers of Radiation Sickness

Leslie Groves was maintaining a year after the bombings that from what doctors told him Some radiation sickness was a quote pleasant way to die. Now naturally the horrific deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't something that the United States government wanted to be public knowledge. It destroyed the moral high ground that we've been flauntin since the end of the war, he says. "We are just showing the world that we can blow you the fuck up"

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