Hiroshima
About Hiroshima
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area.
On the show — 28 mentions total
Oppenheimer said there is every reason to believe that there was no appreciable radioactivity on the ground in Hiroshima. He was just like, oh, no, it's all fine. No, we just blew them up.
from No Such Thing as Pyramids in Johannesburg, 2025-03-13 at 00:32:29 · read transcript
Other times Hiroshima came up
Nuclear bombs. Yeah. They were like, let's set off a nuclear bomb since it's happening anyway. They went to the US government and they said, do you mind if we set off a nuclear bomb about the same size as the one in Hiroshima? Then we'll plant a neutrino detector near it and it'll detect stuff. That was what they were going to do. It was only at the last minute they thought actually a nuclear reactor would be easier.
582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 · listen
Can I bring up another game that you mentioned in the headline facts? The atomic bomb game. The atomic bomb game. This is amazing. They were in Hiroshima. They were in the outer suburbs. They were about five kilometers from where, where, in place. ground zero was for the bomb detonating. They were mid-game and suddenly the bomb goes off and there was damage to their building, people were injured around them.
No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 · listen
You think the sun is fire, Dan? I cannot believe that that is... I'd like to back Dan up. I also still think the sun is on fire. Yeah, wasn't Godzilla initially a sort of comment on Hiroshima Nagasaki? That was why it had all these nuclear content. It was. It's interesting that the way Godzilla is defeated, certainly in the last film, is with military weapons. Whereas the whole point of Godzilla is it's a metaphor for nuclear bombs, you know, the most devastating weapons we can come up with.
12: No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-24 · listen
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