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Fred Kaplan

Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

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“to the point where, you know, I conclude my first book was The Wizards of Armageddon. Which was awesome, by the way. We used it as a source. It was fantastic. Oh, thanks. But I mean, it was about these people. That's mainly what it was about.”

The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred M. Kaplan
Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryStrangelove Whisperings

“quite the contrary to it being internalized I think all of these ideas have been at least among the broad educated public interested in international relations let's say forgotten and one reason I wrote this new book The Bomb is precisely because of that…”

Why: It serves as a necessary look at the history of nuclear issues after decades of public complacency and forgetting.

The Bomb by Fred Kaplan
Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryStrangelove Whisperings

Passing References

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“Herman Kahn, in his book on thermonuclear war, said that what he was trying to do was to create a vocabulary in which these problems can be discussed rationally. It was sort of a religion of rationality…”

On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
Guest on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryStrangelove Whisperings