Hello everyone we have had a new exciting rebrand you may have noticed we are now the history

hit warfare podcast with me as per usual your host James Rogers but we've got a new exciting

broader focus each week three times a week we're going to bring you

episodes on the first and second World War as per usual but we now touch on even more

secret conflicts of the Cold War, the hidden aspects of the War on

Terror and everything warfare from our recent history. So stay tuned and be sure to like, follow,

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In this episode, we're taking a journey back to the birth of our nuclear world.

In 1945, we know that President Truman took that decision to drop two atomic bombs, one at Hiroshima and one at Nagasaki.

Yet, how did he come to this decision? What strategic calculations were made were

were other targets rejected including some of those in Germany?

And how did this decision impact the great power relations that got ever more tense during the Cold War.

In fact, how does this monumental decision continue to impact our world today?

Well, to discuss all, we have my old friend and nuclear history

expert Dr Jean-Francois Belanger. J.F. has been a fellow at McGill at Yale and now at the

University of Waterloo in Canada where he's working on his new book

Why Competence Matters, Counter-Proliferation and Deterrence. He is the perfect person to talk us through this nuclear history.

So enjoy and please like, follow, share and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hi JF, how you doing? I'm doing. I'm doing very good, thank you. How are you, James? I'm good, but I am missing, longing for our days in New Haven,

at the Regal Beagle Pub at lunchtimes,

and I miss your pedantic yet excellent coffee making.

Thank you very much.

I do miss our time there.

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