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Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast.

Episode 109, Rain of Ruin, Part 2.

Last week, we left off with the advent of the Manhattan Project, the natural evolution of years of theory about bombing nations from the air in order to force them to surrender.

Today, we're going to give a brief outline of the project itself, before moving on to talk

about how plans were made for the use of the bomb.

Then, over the next few weeks, we'll talk about different ways historians have strung

those events together to explain the surrender and the role of the bombs in it.

Carried on in absolute secrecy, the Manhattan Project was the single most expensive undertaking

of the war. The whole thing cost around $2 billion in 1945 currency, depending on where you put the cutoff for its endpoint.

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