Episode Details

What if most mainstream versions of history are manufactured myths with the ultimate purpose of engineering subservience to the state? What if the vast majority of historical figures withstanding the test of time are more often than not blood-soaked tyrants widely recast as heroes and archetypal figures to admire in the modern age? In this week's episode we deconstruct the legend of the Manhattan Project questioning the ethical dilemma we have all been conditioned to accept as incontestable. As we set the stage for the immoral justification lined with false claims of a nuclear arms race against Hitler and the Nazi occult, we dissect the genocidal mentality that led to the only intentional use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict in human history... In the words of Edward Teller theoretical physicist and early member of the Manhattan Project known as 'the father of the hydrogen bomb', "Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out..."  Support the show'Silence is Acquiescence'

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