May the Best Firebomb Win

07/16/20 • 36 min

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07/16/20 • 36 min

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Revisionist History - May the Best Firebomb Win

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Pushkin. A couple of years before the United States entered the Second World War, there was a meeting at Harvard University.

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The President of Harvard was there, the president of MIT, a Nobel Prize winner, the president of the Standard Oil Development Company, and two professors Louis Fieser from Harvard and the chair hot Hottel from MT Come thirty nine. A lot of people a war was something we'd