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A president can order a nuclear strike. Controlling what happens next is another matter.
Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein joins Vladimir Bobetic to talk about what Truman really knew before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how military planners shape presidential choices, and why a smaller nuclear bomb offers no guarantee of control.
We also talk about NUKEMAP, his tool for showing what a nuclear explosion would do to places we know.
Wellerstein is an associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the author of The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age.
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https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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