Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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When was Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima? How did different people react to the news of the explosion? Why was the second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki? Join James Holland, Al Murray, and Iain MacGregor for Part 2 as they explore the monumental decisions that led to the world's first atomic bomb being dropped at the end of WW2. SUBSCRIBE FOR A FREE WEEK AND GET THE NEXT EPISODES WITHOUT ADS - go to patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ with an introductory offer to watch exclusive livestreams, get presale ticket events, and our weekly newsletter - packed with book and model discounts. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:30.3	Actung, Akhtung, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray, James Holland, and with our special guest, Ian McGregor, for part two of special bombing mission number 13, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
1:46.9	And in the last episode, you took us through the physics of the thing, through the establishment
1:51.9	the Manhattan Project via tube alloys, the development of the B29, which is as critical to this
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