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RAIN OF RUIN - Firebombing, nuclear weapons and the ethics of war.
In this explosive episode, award-winning historian Roger Moorhouse and journalist Antonia Senior dive deep into Richard Overy’s Rain of Ruin — a powerful exploration of the American bombing campaign against Japan at the end of World War II. From the devastating firebombing of Tokyo to the moral reckoning of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they discuss whether conventional or atomic bombings were more decisive in Japan's surrender.
🔍 What’s inside:
A deep dive into Rain of Ruin by Richard Overy
The role of firebombing vs. atomic bombing in ending WWII
How the Japanese government processed the…
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