It's hardcore history.

Attendance.

Today's show is an example of one I'd really like to be doing more often interviewing authors on interesting 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 subjects for a hardcore history end of 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 nuclear weapons and also because of the only times

nuclear weapons have ever been used against people was at the end of the second world war in

Japan obviously that dovetails into that story and we've talked about that recently so at the end of the Second World War in Japan, obviously, that dovetails into that story,

and we've talked about that recently.

So at the risk of sounding like we have become the nuclear war and Second World War in the Pacific Channel,

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, much more than we do.

So I make no apologies for that.

The author 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 the way you thought about everything, about something

you've 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 think about it in a new way that's rare about something you know

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