Episode 108 - Rain of Ruin, Part 1

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In our first of six episodes on the atomic bombs, we start to answer an important question; where did the idea for the bomb come from? Where did people get the idea that a sufficiently large bomb would enable them to win wars from the air?

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0:32.9	This week, I'm going to recommend The World Set Free by H.G. Wells.
0:38.1	If you've never read the works of Wells, there's a reason they're considered classics of science fiction.
0:43.4	The world set free is particularly topical this week because it's the first work of fiction ever to predict the use of atom bombs.
0:51.2	Wells describes a war using said weapons that's so apocalyptic it sets mankind on the path
0:56.6	to permanent peace. Go to audibletrial, Rain of Ruin, Part 1.
1:28.4	So, we're finally here. Rain of Ruin, Part 1. So, we're finally here.
1:30.7	I've known I was going to do a series on the Adam bombs, pretty much from episode 1 on,
1:36.3	but I've really agonized about how to approach it.
1:39.8	The bombs are wrapped up in an incredibly complex history of their own, which is in turn
1:45.7	entwined with the complex history of the final months of World War II, which is in turn
1:51.3	filtered through current politics on both sides of the Pacific, all of which makes for a political
1:57.1	which is brew of controversy.
1:59.6	More than once, I've heard a discussion about the bomb devolving to both sides, simply shouting
2:04.2	past each other.
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