by nine fifteen eight fifteen in the morning ten am time nine fifteen twenty and time eight fifteen hiroshima time so it was all over by then but the day before was the important day because. we have to go back and realize what happened during this period the bomb was developed by the manhattan project there were hundreds of thousands of people working on the manhattan project they built three cities. tennessee los alamos. new mexico and hanford washington just produced to research how to make the bombs and make the materials and from which to make the bombs so this effort had been going on a long time ever since the beginning of the war and signed ronald out of franklin roosevelt saying that it might be possible to make an atomic weapon so all this had

been going on and we had started preparing to drop the atom bomb in the fall of one nine hundred forty four before we even had a bomb we were we were if you were a poker player you would say you're betting on the calm so that's what happened and then they had a test of the one of the first atomic bombs in. alamogordo new mexico on july sixteenth of one thousand nine hundred forty five after that everything started getting hotter and everything of that type and we knew we were going to have a weapon the drop so then we had a pair of we had already been preparing to drop it so if we don't know how to drive and by this time we never would the day before we had a briefing in the morning and then they told you to go back and get some sleep because you want to take off at two forty five am everything started two forty five and so then you would back and. to get some sleep and i would

nobody slap how they expected so you're going on the first atomic bomb and then go get some sleep eight o'clock at night they came and got us finally and then took us over and gave us the final breakfast and the sort of business i call the final breakfast they call it the mission breakfast and then over to define a briefing where they gave you the latest medal bed better old data told you where all the air sea rescue ships were and everything of that type any final things that day you needed to know so then we finally finished all that would get on the airplane it took off very simple he went once he got up on the plane what was the last how you feeling it was easy because everything went exactly according to plan there wasn't a surprise in a whole bunch and with what we had prepared for and had been expecting and everything of that type all this time you could see the city of you can see the coast of japan from

a good two hundred miles away i mean maybe hundred miles away you could see the city of here sima from fifty miles away so you just went in and turned on the bomber on now but this time was in the bombardier sands and you said turned and waited for the drop when the drop came the plane surged because you had suddenly lost ninety four hundred pounds and tipper's took over manual control again and made the turn to get away from the bomb the biggest thing that we were concerned about was is this bomb going to work because this was a ball that had never been tested this was you know a uranium two thirty five bomb that had never been tested the one they tested was approved tony a bomb. so was it going to work or was it going to work and it took forty five seconds from the time the ball must the airplane until they exploded everybody was sitting there time again some way shape or form i had a watch so i knew what the time was the other people were counting one thousand war

and one thousand and two and so forth and suddenly the bomb went off and you saw a bright flash of light and they are playing to you knew the thing at work and the only question then was what was i going to do it of the airplane so we were going away from it this time we got putting distance between us and. kept that up after a little very short time we got the first shock wave which is measured about three and i have g.'s you up there in washington you know all these military people you know what a three g. is and everything of that type so it does seem like much to a fighter pilot but if you want to be twenty nine at thirty thousand feet seems like a hell of a job so when we turn around after you are going to shock waves we turned around the look what happened and the shock wave of the city of hiroshima was completely covered with smoke and. you could not you knew a tremendous amount of damage had been done underneath that cloud there and

everything but you could not see what it was when they tested the first atomic bomb in new mexico as you mention robert oppenheimer his of quest that mastermind behind the manhattan project i read a quote from having he said you know a few people cried it must first silent how did you feel when that bomb detonated and i was happy to work that's number one you know we had been in a long war we had been attacked by the japanese the japanese people were not nice people in those days my next door neighbor was a prisoner of war all the time has more stories about this to tell i can tell but we had to but time on death march the all the casualties we took on the solomons and the sort of thing. i wanted the policy of the united states government at that time was to subdue the nation of japan and i was willing to do anything i could do to help that out and that was my policy also was to that

country was trying to subdue japan and i was trying to do also to subdue japan let me make one comment here the japanese you know today or not the japanese we fought during world war two the japanese that they are nice people and everything of that type we've had japanese students living with us in our homes in california for many many years and they're in to. can ask for better but the japanese during world war two were not that nice of people and that's all say about them do you think that the japanese hippel will ever be able to forgive the americans after all this destruction and nagasaki or i don't know all their world or not of reparative if i had been living in hiroshima or nagasaki at that particular time i probably won't forgive me either because those people suffered an awful lot but whether they

will accept it or not dropping the atomic bomb save their lives and our lives japanese lives if we had had to invade japan. the japanese casualties would have been much much much much higher and our kyra phillips would have been terrific you know they're still giving out purple hearts that were made to get allowed in the invasion of japan we still haven't used up all the purple hearts that were manufactured at that time it was not a nice war fifty million people got killed during world war two and they all have bad stories to tell about it and hindsight do you think that there was any way to avoid it using the atomic weapon any other option that would have it seem to think all three main options one was to put a blockade around japan and start of the people the death how do you start of people of death that are already living on one thousand calories if you can't do it

a sec that then yeah the two options were dropped the atomic weapons or put a full scale invasion into japan the atomic weapons would have all been a less casualties overall than if the invasion of japan would have done and if you ask any g.i. that what there's going to be. it was in a service over and over the pacific and you have their little of the atomic bomb. and i think my next door neighbor came over when he found out what i did the dumping the atomic bomb and he came over here at six o'clock one morning pounding on my door says i just found out what you did you saved my life and i says are you proud of my door at six o'clock again the ifa i won't say but big that's all i can say but everybody is in the pacific at the time says will come up to me and say you saved my life do you regret being on that mission that dropped that for a separate tommy i regret we ever had to have my so i regret every mission i had

over europe and everything of that type i dropped a lot of bombs over there that killed people and probably killed several israeli and but do i regret the atomic mission i regret we had to do it is a fellow here you have the day and what was it he was saying that the japanese should apologize to was for making us drop the atomic bomb that was a new twist on things i would have her had heard before but i don't regret that we had to do it but i think we had to do it nordic and the war with a minimum loss of life so you know course the issue you have nuclear warfare is still very relevant today as the threat of nuclear war so lingers is there anything that you would like to say the politicians today that are control of the world's nuclear stockpile and i say that any politician any diplomat anybody in any five. area of authority today i would like never to see another atomic weapon used but i'm afraid we're going to we will not see it by russia or we will not see it by the

major powers or anything else i dread the day when the terrorists are going to get a clear weapons because they are not near as thoughtful. of the consequences of nuclear bombings as we are as major powers are and they will toss in a while like. matchstick somerford my last question for you if world war three broke out today god for bad and you were given the same order if you were they said go drop an atomic bomb on whatever city would you do it again if everything was exactly the same as you had was there. that's the point where you'd could go i know it's possible to really duplicate things that precisely but if the same situation existed again exactly as there as it had

back in one thousand nine hundred five yes i would go on it i would volunteer for about some other fact i don't want to go to war. one of the key elements of democracy. which is so uncomfortable for me. who pays for the us. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. in reality. developed for bush. but. always by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand

there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. you can flip the vote there. in moscow she's available in hotels. toto keep a promise it is called us photo twist. is. capturing the city. as a good. stroke for us to try because. the top stories tonight because authorities arrest opposition members as violence

returns to the streets of the capital bishkek around a thousand gathered in front of parliament demanding the government step in fears of a new don't rest please use force to break up protesters were said to be a violent overthrow. ruling rescue efforts are underway in russia as wildfires spread across the country during the biggest hate wave on record leaving at least fifty people dead in moscow the toxic small has cleared but the colleges say the air pollution. forecasters predicted could be weeks before the temperatures start. and for it or against former cia officials say that president obama could prevent a war in the middle east they say israel is planning an attack on iran but will only go through with a campaign if it is the full military support of the united states. of all our news twenty four seven that are now the time exactly twenty two forty six zero moscow with. the big night for. russian interests to high heaven yes russian side

c.b.l. are an option with a chance of the right play offs in the last minutes that find out the score on the rest of the sport. hello and welcome to the sports news and here the headlines. siberian express russian side syria are on course to reach the europa league playoffs as they leave a call on on aggregate inside first. while trading top places defending champions rubin lose their captain as a semantic news to league leaders in it's. under pressure tiger woods fights to keep his number one status and place on the u.s. ryder cup team. but we start with football and in the europa league russian side severe have a great chance to make it into the playoffs as they take on a pall on the muscle in cyprus the siberian side lead to one male from the first leg and they're currently losing to one of the greek cypriot side we've been down

to ten minutes since the fifteenth minute so it's two to one i get the russian side still currently going through in a way goals in the last minutes that elsewhere ghattas why triumph i want to belgrade to go through seventy three on the aggregate in the earlier fixture while gothenburg lead a said maul one nil but still trial and i get the ship tash now hold a one goal lead over a pleasant i can tell of each one up against olympiacos got out of him to malta and johnson eventis just kicked off against irish team shamrock rovers and liverpool are underway against macedonia side. elsewhere as it's in petersburg are one step away from the champions league group stage after beating remain inside their new rail one nil at the stadium on wednesday night two in their third qualifying round tie down a five the home side ahead after thirty three minutes and they hung on to the lead to win one in the on the night and on aggregate they now got into friday's draw for

the champions league playoffs and it was a good day physicist also completed the signing of portugal defendant bruno alvarez twenty two million euros. and spartak moscow will also. find out their champions league playoff opponents on friday but meanwhile the club is concentrating on the domestic league where the red to once a current disappointing eighth they play bitter rivals in it at home on sunday and of also unveiled a new player ahead of the clash that he missed me back as the story. nicholas baraka is given a map of moscow as a present from some russian journalists the media didn't want their argentine defended to get lost in the big city and however by record certainly won't have a lot of time to explore russia's capital at least not in its early days it's parked up the river and whites are struggling to break into the leading group in the premier league however hard work doesn't scare the former espanyol the fans at . spartak are a great team i'm happy to be here what i've already noticed is that my new partner surveyor skillfull does encourage just me i can't wait to make my debut for the

club the fee for the argentinian is said to be around ten million euros and the defender will wear number nineteen at his new club they must go outside of challenges from the need and says god to sign the defender on a four year deal and ready to carbon is fully aware of paris the man the years on a premier but in medicine are going well we need a strong center back our defense has been below par so far this season we just hope people are just you quickly. but i certainly won't be the last us but duck some assigning as the most vocal up doing all we can to bring i didn't like the view to the stadium the russian giants are ready to provide the irish star was a personal driver border guard and cool however my d.d. hasn't made up his mind yet but one thing's for sure he won't be able to help support doc in this sunday clash with arch rivals the needs where the most divide side has a perfect chance to get their own campaign back on track but he must give up our

team. meanwhile setka sumac the captain of defending russian crimea champions rubin has moved to the changes in this since having the thing to stands in the position of defensive midfielder during the summer and the two main targets were snapped along with by time to mature thirty four year old so much has played for tell scott thompson genre and cmos that is what was really being displayed more to the fore. hundred matches in russian premier league scoring ninety seven goals to magnus also captain of russia in that week to some the finals of euro two thousand and eight. and english premier league champions chelsea are also looking to bolster their squad with the signing of brazil midfield that ramirez from ben sica the clubs have agreed a price of just under twenty nine million dollars is subject to play across a magical the twenty three year old would be the second pre-season signing for the blues following you'll see ben i mean smith medical. and london rivals arsenal in

the meantime still have assessed fabric asimo squad and the twenty three year old republic training session and speculation to bosler not so far the spanish champions have failed to persuade the guns to sell best on midfielder movements were made about his future at the emirates for manager arsene bang that it is to keep fabregas and side in a quest to find a time some silverware as it's been five years since i asked harassers to try for. me walk or see on or another scored and played a part in each goal in israel madrid mexican side club america three two in san francisco in one of numerous pre-season friendly this week madrid open thirty four minutes in. one sitting with the now very it's a tie since he was a nineteen year old school whose davey bots eight minutes off of the restart back came the mexican side a great from a dull folks you could say that to the rest of another eight minutes later club

america grabbed the lead a costly error in midfield and adolfo again provided the assist of a classy finish as to the center sanchez the lead didn't last long though just two minutes later or not it found gonzalez when deciding equaliser. and eight minutes from time the courts will start scored a trademark goal for such peace to israel the three two victory was just angry yet a very. nothing around. as center golf now because the heat is back on tiger woods this week as well the number one ranking on place on the u.s. ryder cup team are under threat as he heads to the world golf championships in ohio gets underway at the finest our country club on thursday and phil mickelson and lee westwood have the chance of closing the number one spot what's his health the last five years but tiger has won the last four times he's played at this course and another win would also boost his chances of qualifying for the u.s. ryder cup team however his form has not been great since returning to the game in

scandals in his private life as i would says the victories will come. directly from keep working keep building i've been through periods like this before. and just kind of keeping patient keep working keep building and. you know keep putting the pieces together and when they do come and they do fall the place. the shoes you want i will when the future much meanwhile russia's biggest basketball star andrei kirilenko is currently a moscow as the utah jazz forward attended a promotional event caroline tell nicknamed a k forty seven was on hand at the popular under the bridge playground event which preceded says days we can possible tournament the team russia captain will miss this month's well championships in turkey choose health reasons he still thinks highly of his current national team. as i said it was a very tough summer here with all the factors for the us it's a it's it's needed i have made it this is. just me you will never know if you

change everything in the season and we saw three months which is you know a lot of long long time in the playoffs you know it's it's really big interesting to think apart what you would do it is. really regretted not to play shots. but there were there are there were guards. up there. yeah i am not afraid they just have been. taught the world to. think i like it's a huge. very careless tree so everybody in the same culture players take the stuff they they want to be like. they really want to they really want what a great. editor. and staying in moscow the newly formed russian olympic committee convened for the first time on thursday and its first decision came from a limpet head alexander's you cough who suggested reducing the executive board so

twenty people have been selected and approved to meet russia's athletes to the twenty twelve and twenty fourteen olympics the body also passed a project called the strategy for the development of the rational and the committee which contains changing the regulation of the group and the long term development of an infant sports in russia. religion dollars i'm very pleased that almost everyone has approved a document on the development strategy for the next ten years and that's for the first time in the history of the community it's important that all of federations non-government organizations and regional members support our strategy for me the most inspiring thing from this meeting is that there is a clear understanding that only top russian between government and non-government organizations can produce success and the only aim we have is providing excellent facilities for our fleet so they can concentrate on their performances. and finally one stage of the european truck racing championship will be held in russia for the

first time this weekend the race will take place near the western city of smolensk while some muscovites are already getting a head start in checking out the competition team algo a truck racing showed off their vehicles in red square while the championships so russian driver alex on the gulf is busy answering questions from curious tourists yet the race organizers seem to be the drivers main concern is it love to make russia a permanent. three years ago we started with the russian driver to give all the russian drivers a chance in the european track race and i started three years ago as i said before . we are very successful with team we work very good together with the russian. and the russian t.v. we promote europeans like greece also here in the russia and alexander of is very helpful in this side and his a very very nice guy all the team members love him and they like to work together

with him. and that's all the support for this bill is and i think i am. hungry for the full story we've got it. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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bishkek police used force to break up protesters calling for the government to step down. also the saudi grueling rescue efforts continue in russia as wildfires spread across the country during the biggest heat wave on record leaving at least fifty people dead. and for a dollar against former cia officials say president obama could prevent a war in the middle east they say israel is planning an attack on iran but will only go through with it with u.s. backing. also coming up in the business that day a severe drought plagues russia's wheat harvest the government imposes a temporary ban on grain exports join us in twenty minutes time.

eleven pm here in moscow around the world three pm new york city a to me evening in london wherever you're watching a warm welcome to our t.v. it's kevin over the top stories this hour and first police start of used live rounds and tear gas to break up anti-government protesters today just outside the capital bishkek riot police have been on standby opened fire after being attacked with stones twenty seven people have been arrested accused of being responsible for the violence our correspondent. tonight with the latest. following a very tense few hours just outside at a checkpoint by the city of cond where there were just a few dozen meters separating riot police and a few thousand of protesters who demanded their requests be heard and met basically they were calling for otos out the wire the interim president of kurdistan to hear their demands to hear their complaints and take them into account the.