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209: Dropping A Bombs & F Bombs

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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The Revisionists and the Bomb

James: Stimson was a figure of rigid kind of seeming Victorian, old-fashioned Victorian. He calls the bomb in his diary by its code name, S1. James: The real reason we used the bomb was to wag our nuclear finger at the Russians because Cold War was on the verge of beginning.

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