EP34 Atomic Accountability

It's hardcore history. >> Today's show is an example of one I'd really like to be doing more often, interviewing authors on interesting um historical related books that they've written. But I read the books and it's so hard when you're already reading so much for the main show all the time to squeeze in more than one book at a time. maybe for example on some other subject for a hardcore history dendum show.

So, I'm sort of constrained by that and I want to explain not apologize but explain why once again we kind of have a subject that we've dealt with multiple times before uh nuclear weapons and also because the only times nuclear weapons have ever been used against people uh was at the end of the second world war in Japan obviously uh that dovetales into that story and we've talked about that recently so at the risk of sounding like we be have become the nuclear war and uh Second World War in the Pacific channel. Um, we will include other things, I promise. But I make no apologies about how much emphasis we place on these stories connected to nuclear weapons because we don't think enough about that. I mean, I don't even think that's arguable.

Anybody who spends any time at all looking into this realizes, oh my gosh, you know, we should be talking about this much much much much more than we do. So, I make no um apologies for that. The author um that we're having on today though wrote the sort of book that I put everything down for and grabbed right away because it has the potential to completely change um the way you thought about everything about something you thought a lot about. I've thought a lot about the end of the Second World War.

I've thought a lot about the use of nuclear weapons as I know many of you have too. So when somebody writes something that makes you uh think about it in a new way, that's rare about something you know that some of us have been into for 50 plus years. Adam Tus's the wages of destruction did that. I remember I mean I spent the next three years I think in a days continually thinking about how now this new overlay of my perspective changes all these other things in ...