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Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The History of Bombing

Stalin was a notably paranoid man anyway, witnessed the fact that he never trusted the bomb program until the actual bombs on the ground in Japan. The theory was this, if you're bombing a factory to get those ball bearings out of production, there are men and possibly women in the factory making them. So we can expand the bombing to a larger area. And from there, well, we can't always hit the apartments, but there are other people in the city there involved in the war. You couldn't drop bombs down a pickle barrel over a Japanese city from 29,000 feet. It's horrible when you think about it. When Vladimir Putin decides they need not use nuclear weapons

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