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The War of the Pacific began of course on 7th of December 1941 with the Japanese

attack on Pearl Harbor. Well that's what we all think but actually that's only a very

small part of the story because the Japanese have been fighting this war since 1931.

Pearl Harbor was a tiny part. It was a consequence of this great Japanese invasion

to create an empire. The purpose of dropping the atomic bombs on Nagasaki in Hiroshima was to bring the

war to an end. Whilst disastrous for the lives that are lost was salvation for the lives that were preserved.

Rob Larmen, it's great to have you on the show.

It's always such a pleasure for us to have historians on because not only are we both fascinated by history but there's so many parallels

between what has happened in the past and some of the things that are happening today and we're

going to get into those parallels later on but the first thing we wanted to talk about was one of your big areas of expertise is the war in the Pacific

and it seems to me that both here in the West and actually in much of the world we are completely

ignorant of that part of that conflict. So the first thing that's probably worth

asking is, you know in most people's minds the war in the Pacific starts with the attack on

Pearl Harbor why did that even happen? Well first of all thank you very much for

inviting me on historians love to have the opportunity of talking to intelligent customers and you're

that and it's really exciting to be able to talk about stuff that drives us.

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