Sarah Paine: uncertainty

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…No, no, I did the diverting. It was interesting. Do we have some sense of what Japanese public opinion was like through the 30s and 40s? I don't know. It's also because it’s becoming more and more authoritarian. Yeah, I have no idea on that subject. Again, it's a social historian, that would require really detailed knowledge that I don't have. I had Daniel Yergin, who wrote The Prize, which is the Pulitzer Prize-winning history of oil. He has a big section in the book about World War II because, in his view, oil was a big component of why the war happened the way it did. One of the interesting points he made was that he thinks that the kamikaze missions, a big part of the motivation behind them, was that Japan lacked the fuel to have the pilots fly back. Is that accurate?…

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