This week marks the 81st anniversary of the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

On Today's Show:
Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist, contributor to The iPaper and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), recalls the history and discusses the current state of nuclear weapons, especially as it relates to the war with Iran.


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