HHAddendum EP34 Atomic Accountability
Added 2025-11-29 07:42:00 +0000 UTCDescription: Dan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you know about the subject.
Keywords: Nuclear weapons, atomic, bomb, hydrogen, Truman, Second World War, World War Two, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Wellerstein, Franklin Roosevelt, Japan, Presidential authority
Show Notes:
1. “The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age” by Alex Wellerstein
2. “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen
3. “The Doomsday Machine” by Daniel Ellsberg
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Comments
This was a fantastic show. The complete 180 in the "voice of restraint" so to speak, from the President to the Military shows just how much our executive branch has slid. When our hope is that the military shows restraint in deploying weapons if the President asks them to, we're in spooky territory.
Justin Buckingham
2025-12-01 07:12:21 +0000 UTC
