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The Ricochet Doctrine

This week on the Ricochet Podcast (which starts at about 5 minutes in progress due to a technical issue), we talk politics and washing machines with Ricochet editor Jon Gabriel, and then historian Reverend Wilson Miscamble, author of The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan joins to discuss today's anniversary of the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and the lessons applicable to the battles that are being fought today.

Music from this week’s’ episode:

Chicken Fat by Robert Preston

The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

You're the bomb, EJHill.

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  • user_1001260@FreschFisch

    Yes, Walgreens sells coffee, and I mistakenly bought it once.

    It reminds me of the coffee served in the machines in the basement of Blegen Hall at the University of Minnesota in the 1980's.

    One step ahead of church basement coffee, and two steps back of gas station coffee.

  • Banned Member@BallDiamondBall
    One thing seldom addressed in discussion of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just how many Japanese lives were saved. The government of Japan had become a death cult, and saw shame in survival without victory. The fascist government of Japan was preparing the citizenry to resist the massing American invasion with farm tools.
  • Matty Van@MattyVan

    Actually what's rarely addressed is this:

    If either Japan or America had not become empires in the 1890s, they never would have had to fight each other. The one that chose not to take the imperial road would never have had to make war on civilians.

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