After a brief talk about the French revolution, Chris and Trung go through questions from the second episode on Hirohito and AI

Explore the upbringing of the man who will lead Japan into the second world war and the chaotic story of how the conflict began in China.

Chris and Trung go over details and questions from Nuclear Dawn II

After years of brutal war, the weapons created in Los Alamos are brought to bear on Japan, ushering in a new technological age. Humanity now faces the threat of its own extinction, but how did we get here? In this episode we dive into Japanese history, to the end of the Edo period, and piece together the causes of the war in the Pacific.

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Get ready for a very different tone as Chris and Trung discuss a few questions and dive into more detail about the first Nuclear Dawn episode.

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Following the Christopher Nolan movie based on the book: "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, we look at Oppenheimer's farewell speech from his directorship of Los Alamos and the dream he spelled out for a globally controlled nuclear future.

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