# Steve Twomey

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“The Intelligence Legacy of the Yom Kippur War” – with Uri Bar-Joseph

Summary Uri Bar-Joseph (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss the intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War. Uri is an author and professor emeritus at Haifa University.  What You’ll Learn Intelligence How Israel failed to predict the Yom Kippur War Egyptian spy Ashraf Marwan’‮…

Pearl Harbor at 75: An Interview with Steve Twomey

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twomey to discuss his new book about the attacks of December 7, 1941, Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack.

Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?

On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. It’s one of the most notorious surprise attacks in history, but how much of a surprise actually was it? Did President Franklin Roosevelt know that the attack was coming and even encourage it as a means of propelling the US into ‮…

Preview: Was Pearl Harbor an inside job?

In the first episode of season 2 of History’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twomey joins Rob Attar to tackle the "back door to war" conspiracy theory, explaining why many Americans have been willing to believe in a president's treachery. Find the full‮…

The Military History of the Battle of Pearl Harbor /// 103

The Battle of Pearl Harbor: a day that lived in infamy. Thousands of American servicemen were caught unaware – fish in a tropical barrel. Many died. Many lived. As a direct result of this two-hour battle, The United States of America entered the Second World War, inaugurating what Niall Ferguson ‮…

A Military History of the Attack at Pearl Harbor /// 104

The Battle of Pearl Harbor was one of the most important events in United States – and human – history. It unleashed the most powerful nation the world has ever seen into mankind’s greatest war. This is the story of that battle. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost ‮…

Could Pearl Harbor Have Been Prevented?: 12 Days to Infamy

On this episode of Our American Stories, Pearl Harbor marked America’s entry into World War II, but the road to that day was lined with warning signs. Intelligence reports pointed to Japanese aggression, yet many leaders dismissed the possibility of an attack and even the possibility that the Japa‮…

Remembering Pearl Harbor with author Steve Twomey

Steve Twomey is the author of "Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack." In addition to this podcast, I also produce and host The Forum, a weekly public affairs program on KSFR, Northern New Mexico's public radio station. For our December 8th show, I wanted to do a program commemorating the 84‮…

196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey

With the December 1941 surprise attack on the US naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, our story has officially come to the United States’ entry into the Second World War. Professor Jackson told that story in episode 194, and in 193 we covered the long buildup to the war with Japan; yet, the attack o‮…

Remembering Pearl Harbor and the New Mexico Military Museum

Last night on The Forum, 84 years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, we revisited the tense days leading up to that pivotal moment with author Pulitzer Prize winning author/journalist Steve Twomey. His insights into the intelligence failures, missed signals, and human decisions that preced‮…