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

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The Importance of Propaganda

The Japanese rejected the terms of complete unconditional surrender just like everyone knew they would. The military were training every able-bodied person on the mainland to fight with sharpened bamboo sticks to the death if an American land invasion came. Through propaganda and self justification, America gave the go ahead to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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