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

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The Manhattan Project

The idea of dropping the bomb on white people made everyone a little less gunkhole about using it. General Groves wanted a city that was mostly military in nature, but had not already been bombed a shit. Kyoto was fortunately spared at the insistence of Secretary of War Henry Stimson. It would be a crime against humanity to destroy Kyoto.

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