Well, here we are.  Humans are about to devise the technology that could realistically end the world.  For the first time, humans have the ability to basically eradicate all of life on earth, and it’s only restrained by, well humans.  Yikes.  

The war in Europe ended in May of 1945, but the war in the Pacific was still going on.  We talked about the turning point in the Pacific, the Battle of Midway, a couple of episodes ago, but since then we’ve only talked about the war in Europe.   So we need to go back a couple of years and catch up with what was going on in the Pacific.