# Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Dropped in Japan Were Not 'Satanic' Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-the-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-japan-were-not-satanic Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-the-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-japan-were-not-satanic.md Podcast: [Daily Signal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416) Published: 2026-08-27T21:11:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL7251487291.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL7251487291.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-signal-329416/episodes/victor-davis-hanson-the-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-japan-were-not-satanic Duration seconds: 767 ## Resource It's August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on August 6, the uranium bomb called "Little Boy" that was dropped on the dual-use target, military and industrial Japanese city of Hiroshima, and then three days later on Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb.    “The dropping of the atomic bomb, it was not a satanic enterprise...Good men made a bad weapon to stop far worse men from killing innocents,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”  🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA MovementThe Daily Signal, the proud producers of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words,” has a special limited time offer:  With a monthly donation $28, you’ll become BOTH a Signal Elite Supporter AND receive a copy of “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement”Click here to order: https://secured.dailysignal.com/support-daily-signal-today/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=signalelite&utm_content=260824-vdh-book-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-signal-329416/episodes/victor-davis-hanson-the-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-japan-were-not-satanic/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-the-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-japan-were-not-satanic.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.