Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
Robert and Joe get into the meat of the Beria story: the invasion of Poland and start of World War 2.
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Explore "world_war_ii" with insightful episodes like "Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer", "Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes", "Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World", "1947: Roswell & Beyond" and "Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan" from podcasts like ""Behind the Bastards", "Dwarkesh Podcast", "Dwarkesh Podcast", "Need To Know with Coulthart and Zabel" and "Behind the Bastards"" and more!
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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
We discuss
- similarities between AI progress & Manhattan Project (developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain arms-race situation)
- visiting starving former Soviet scientists during fall of Soviet Union
- whether Oppenheimer was a spy, & consulting on the Nolan movie
- living through WW2 as a child
- odds of nuclear war in Ukraine, Taiwan, Pakistan, & North Korea
- how the US pulled of such a massive secret wartime scientific & industrial project
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) - Oppenheimer movie
(0:06:22) - Was the bomb inevitable?
(0:29:10) - Firebombing vs nuclear vs hydrogen bombs
(0:49:44) - Stalin & the Soviet program
(1:08:24) - Deterrence, disarmament, North Korea, Taiwan
(1:33:12) - Oppenheimer as lab director
(1:53:40) - AI progress vs Manhattan Project
(1:59:50) - Living through WW2
(2:16:45) - Secrecy
(2:26:34) - Wisdom & war
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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World
Today I talk to Pradyu Prasad (blogger and podcaster) about the book "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan" by Herbert P. Bix. We also discuss militarization, industrial capacity, current events, and blogging.
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Timestamps:
(0:00:00) - Intro
(0:01:59) - Hirohito and Introduction to the Book
(0:05:39) - Meiji Restoration and Japan's Rapid Industrialization
(0:11:11) - Industrialization and Traditional Military Norms
(0:14:50) - Alternate Causes for Japanese Atrocities Richard Hanania's Public Choice Theory in Imperial Japan (0:17:03)
(0:21:34) - Hirohito's Relationship with the Military
(0:24:33) - Rant of Japanese Strategy
(0:33:10) - Modern Parallel to Russia/Ukraine
(0:38:22) - Economics of War and Western War Capacity
(0:48:14) - Elements of Effective Occupation
(0:55:53) - Ideological Fervor in WW2 Japan
(0:59:25) - Cynicism on Elites
(1:00:29) - The Legend of Godlike Hirohito
(1:06:47) - Postwar Japanese Economy
(1:13:23) - Blogging and Podcasting
(1:20:31) - Spooky
(1:38:00) - Outro
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1947: Roswell & Beyond
Bryce and Ross dive back to the year that started it all: 1947. The war was over, but the sightings were everywhere: the foo fighters, ghost rockets, and The Big One: Roswell, where the military acknowledged then quickly rescinded news that wreckage from something it couldn't identify were found on a remote farm in New Mexico. It's also the year that the US Air Force, the CIA and the National Security Agency were founded.
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Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan
Mia Wong is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Nobusuke Kishi.
FOOTNOTES:
- Machiavelli’s Children Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan by Richard J. Samuels
- Chinese Comfort Women Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves by Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei
- Yakuza Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro
- Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories By Paul H. Kratoska
- The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945-1995 Their Lives and Times Edited by Akio Watanabe
- Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque:The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 By Mark Driscoll
- Zengakuren: Japan's Revolutionary Student by Stuart J. Dowsey
- Planning for Empire Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State by Janis Mimura
- Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern by Prasenjit Duara
- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F10%2F09%2Fworld%2Fcia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html
- https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268783/the-imperial-ghost-in-the-neoliberal-machine-figuring-the-cia/
- https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/inside-story-of-us-black-ops-in-post-war-japan/
- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fessay%2F2015%2F08%2F15%2Fthe-unquiet-past
- https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/07/13/commentary/japan-commentary/assassination-attempt-nobusuke-kishi/
- https://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf
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