ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith, decides who is to blame for the the nuclear bombings of two Japanese cities that brought WWII to a close. She is joined by podcast/writer, Erin Gibson, and historian of science/creator of nuclearsecrecy.com, Alex Wellerstein. Also there "contributing" are Fact-Checker Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund. On the board this week: FDR's Little Dinger, MENifest Destiny and Bushido.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:25.0 | An Eriio's Original. I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:32.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:40.2 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:43.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:49.0 | disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:55.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:02.0 | and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:05.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to the Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:14.8 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're |
| 1:19.4 | going to be talking about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 1:23.8 | This was actually suggested to us by a listener who said this particular topic had been |
| 1:28.9 | plaguing her family for a while. |
| 1:31.5 | Here's what Kira Rasmussen had to say. I'd like for you to do the bombings of |
| 1:36.1 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm Japanese American so I've had debates with my family |
| 1:41.4 | about this. Who was to blame for the dropping of the bomb? |
| 1:45.2 | I argue that it was the Japanese's fault, but some members of my family put sole blame on |
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