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intellectually ravenous podcast

from the editors of the believer magazine.

Part of poetry is learning how to speak.

Chilly Billy, Chilly Billy.

I'm also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

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From the Independent Producer Project and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries, and this week hearing Hiroshima.

The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.

We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

This week marks 71 years since the United States dropped a pair of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The most powerful explosive yet developed.

In the months, years and decades since we've learned just how devastating the bombs were,

continuing to shape the lives of people who weren't even born yet on August 6th, 1945.

30% of the city's population was killed,

some by radioactive gamma rays

and others by the heat of radiation

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