Most folks are aware of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan - but how much do we know about how it got to that point? Part I of Brooke's Nuclear-series heavy hitter covers World War I, World War II, the discovery of nuclear fission, the Manhattan Project, and, at the end of it all, just how easy it is to justify atrocity. 

Featuring: unmitigated imperialism and nationalism, mythologizing cultures, and cereal.

Note: this episode was written and recorded before the unfolding Russian attacks on Ukraine. There are a number of uncannily related pieces of commentary, but none of them are directly related to what's happening today. 

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