Historian Donald Miller on the young men of the American 8th Air Force, how bombing failed to defeat Germany, and how it finally started to succeed. Also, another dark day in Manchester, England – June 15, 1996.

KABOOM 8: If it was real eggs, they were going to Berlin

Jun 8th, 2017 52m 55s

Historian Donald Miller talks about the American "bomber boys" of World War II. Also, digging up unexploded bombs in Normandy, and the big gamble that started the Six Day War.

KABOOM 7: "We paid blood for this"

Jun 2nd, 2017 55m 9s

Photojournalist Warzer Jaff tells us about covering ISIS in Iraq. Also, the long-secret massacre of up to 300 black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including what may have been the first aerial bombing in the United States.

KABOOM 6: Our best friends in the Middle East

May 26th, 2017 1h 8m

Iraqi-American journalist Warzer Jaff on the wars in Iraq, our best friends in the Middle East, the Kurdish people, and their lives under Saddam Hussein. Also, the massacre of teenage girls in Manchester, England, and the bombing of France befo

KABOOM 5: Why we don't kill civilians. And, why we do kill civilians.

May 12th, 2017 1h 13m

Colm McKeogh on the idea of civilians, how it became wrong to kill them, and how it became okay to kill them again. Also, survivors in Mosul, and Nixon vows, "The bastards have never been bombed like they’re going to be bombed this time."

KABOOM 4: That other time we bombed Iraq

May 5th, 2017 58m 3s

We look back at the occupation of Iraq in the 1920s and '30s by the British, who trained for World War II by bombing their villages. Also, cluster bombs and the Haymarket riot of 1886.

KABOOM 3: An atom bomb is not a screwdriver

Apr 27th, 2017 1h 4m

Ward Wilson tells us his "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons." Also, terrorism in France and the 1937 bombing of Guernica, Spain, that shocked the world.

KABOOM 2: The most bombed country in the world

Apr 19th, 2017 1h 6m

Joshua Kurlantzick talks with us about the most bombed country in the world, tiny little Laos. Also, the US uses the "Mother of All Bombs," and we look back at the Americans' first air raid against Japan.

KABOOM 1: "You just knew something very bad had happened"

Apr 11th, 2017 1h 14m

It's the first episode of KABOOM! We talk with Heather Grayson about what happened to her and her unit when she was an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the US Army, and look back at a 1985 bombing in Spain that presaged today's terrorism.

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