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 rolled out over 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'd 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 there drop so then we had a para 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 out drop 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 in a sort of business i call the final breakfast so they call it the mission breakfast and then over to define a briefing where they gave you the latest medal big metro 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 we get on the airplane it took off very simple he went once he got on the plane what was it like how are 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 a 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 ball but there is stance and you said turned and waited for the drop when the drop came the plane surged because you 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 bomb 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 it wasn't going to work it wasn't going to work and it took forty five

seconds from the time the ball muff 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 and one one thousand and two and so forth and suddenly the bomb went off and it's all bright flash of light and they are playing it like you knew the thing at work and the only question then was why was i going to do it in the airplane so we were going away from it at 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 was measured about three and a half g.'s you know 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 then we turned around after you were there we were 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 dust 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 course 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 death march the all the casualties we took on the solomons and

the sort of thing that. i wasn't 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 die because i couldn't 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 people will ever be able to forgive the american if you

after all this destruction and nagasaki why did all the world were not appropriate fiber 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 say they're lies 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 give the wild 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 achieved the same call three main options one was to put a blockade around japan and start of the people the death how do you a star of people of death that are already living on one thousand calories you can't do it a second then you other two options were dropped the atomic weapons or put a full scale invasion into japan the atomic weapons would have crizal the less casualties overall than if the invasion of japan would have done and if you ask any g.i. that what they're going to body with it was in a service over and over the pacific and you had their little of the atomic bomb. and i think my next door neighbor came over here when he found out what i did and dumping the atomic bomb and he could be 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 tonic on i regret we ever had to have made sure 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 arms but do i regret the atomic mission i regret we had to do it there is a phone here you have the day and what was that 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 ever 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 chris the issue of 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 their 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. matchsticks i'm afraid my last question for you if world war three broke out today got 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 the bouncer by the fact i'd want to go war. vote for bush. the but. always by one vote. 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. he can flip the.

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the day's top stories the number of dead in russia's heat wave rises to fifty two firefighters stepped up the battle as wildfires approach areas contaminated after the chernobyl catastrophe moscow for its parts but engulfed in a cloud of small making it very hard to breathe some flights have been disrupted to . go to share more calls for

a nuclear free world as it marks sixty five years since the atomic bomb which destroyed the city more than one hundred forty thousand people died in the blast and from radiation poisoning afterwards the u.s. dropped the bomb. and as a new polish president promised i've come across cuba sworn to the lately the lech kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against the moving of a memorial cross built from his own. to go sport right now though from revealing day for the teams participating in the european football isn't it kevin seven years for russian teams have been drawn in the champions league and you write playoffs all that coming up next. hello and welcome to the sports news here from lot in moscow and here are the top

stories. tough draw is in it faces a tricky double headed time with french side i was there in the playoffs of the champions league. more draws to a scowl take on cypriot side from the good stuff and luck over to go to swiss side loser in the playoffs of the europa league. while the big toss syria's reward for beating up is a tough draw against dutch giants p.s.v. eindhoven. and you start with those european playoff draws and firstly the champions league where russian premier league leaders in it have been drawn against french side as their their china split is. getting side a tricky tie it gets the side that finished third in the french league last season meanwhile in other draws european giants i.x. take on demand a key have invertebrate have a crunch time some doria to time the way for a cup win this severe facing iberian darby against braga and top to make their champions league debut against young boys of byrne who knocked out side of archie

in the first legs of these ties we played on the seventeenth and eighteenth of august. and three russian sides were in the draw for the europa league playoffs which also took place on friday afternoon tesco moscow will take on cypriot side and faces from other stuff while city is reward for beating a problem there so it's a tough draw against dutch giants p.s.v. eindhoven and locke motif place which side loses and in other draws five time european champions liverpool turkish side tops on small eventis will start the time in austria two time european champions porto travel to belgium for the first leg against game paston velo will start that high at rapid vienna hundred thirteen month cheney's manchester city have to remain inside to me so are these matches will be played on the nineteenth and twenty six the oldest. moving on to domestic football where the russian premier league season has reached its halfway point and unbeaten is in it so far the concourse to claim their second title constantine but top off reveals

a few of the secrets behind this winning streak. zuniga are almost unstoppable they're top of the league and have won mind games in a row moreover the st petersburg club have been splashing the cash sending bruno alvis from puerto for over twenty million euros the portugal star becomes the second defender to arrive at zeni this summer following the footsteps of twenty seven year old alex on the beach the serbian joined from italian side wooden as a where he spent three seasons playing ninety seven matches the needs have also been strengthening their squad in other areas and in so doing have weakened one of their title rivals defending champions who are being have lost key players alex on their behalf and sergei simak to the st petersburg outfit cinemax move was a complete surprise as the transfer was agreed in only a few days needs transfer budget seems bottomless and if they need a player they have the ability to delve deep into their pockets the st petersburg

club has already spent fifteen million euros this summer and the transfer window is still open with zuniga on such a rule it's psychological become harder and harder for the opponents in the russian league to try and beat them but be happy they could take a leaf out the new year there were many in club to politicise to the wire in the champions league qualifiers and the need was likely fortune to get through to the next round they will now face or zero france with their overall win a going through to the champions league group stages to sky and will be in respectively seat nine and ten points behind me and it seems they're the only teams with a slight chance of catching them there are still fifteen matches to go in the russian football fans hope then treat will be kept up until the last minute however football fans it's already believes in each other champions elect as their yet to lose a match so for the season. bitter rival spartak moscow will be trying to and that's

one on sunday at the luzhniki stadium. but given the senate's form it's hard to look past anything other than twenty points for split is man insane but out of archie. meanwhile english double win as chelsea are preparing for the traditional cut nightmare of the top flight season in sunday's community shield final against premier league run is that launched united at wembley the blue said lost a number of pre-season friendly ways. to stop that straight this weekend we need to come back to win because. we lost. too much games and. that was a friendly game us two losers now. we don't we don't have. to lose or. to my games if we have a good opportunity to come back to when it was started well decision. staying in england and while liverpool have learned their opponents in the europa league playoffs babbage are really hard has the toss meanwhile of lifting the reds back to

domestic glory the most a side club finished a disappointing seventh in english premier league last season and the look of their first league title since one nine hundred ninety but the former fallen boss will try to do this and it's continuing speculation over the club's future and has called for any potential new owner to build a proper relationship with the fans hodgson has already made three new signings and has found his interest in the event as midfielder christian paul said as well as being linked with several other players. where there's lots of players who are going to get mentioned and i think that's part of being. a manager of a big club you know any player. will be linked with the course agents the big players will be quite interesting get the players' names linked with liverpool football club because it might help them get a job elsewhere so i take most of that with a pinch of salt the targets we have and the work we try to do we do try to do it seriously and to do it. saying as little as possible and then we just have to

accept that every day if it were to do a press conference every day i would be talking about a different player who may or may not be. and for my level manager it is so he's into milan side wrap up their american tour and frisk texas with a two two draw against f.c. dallas and off the twenty three minutes a great cross from my counterparts the american military i had to tell you the texans side however pulled level before hoff time corner short hair and a lot of fun george john white had a italian champions regained the late in the sixty second minute and it was a beauty from samuel as i was substituted a minute after scoring and ten minutes later the referee thanks to a spot after this what seemed a questionable decision after coming on went down in the box for air and might know i was. with the penalty to all the way this woman video.

elsewhere brazilian side international are through to the final of the copper liberty dora's they lost two one to south paolo in the second leg of their semifinal but the time finished two two are not progress with international out there in through on away goals it was the hosts away from him to thirty minutes in sao paolo where. the flock took the ball then the visitors levelled soon after the break the goal again came from a free kick area. the sound it was and that proved to be crucial to minutes later recorded only vera found himself and not kept his composure to give his side a two one victory but despite the loss into the grass. i keep asking the two legged final the first day we played on august eleventh. finally to i saw he and the k h l wes garson petersburg have unveiled their two new star signings from the n.h.l.

if they never cough and then his cough while their president also revealed they signed big name player after they get out of president alexander medvedev made the announcement at a press conference at the head office in moscow meanwhile thirty five year old goaltender in the back off have been playing for the san jose sharks since one thousand nine hundred nine he played in the conference finals last year where the sharks were beaten by stanley cup winners chicago blackhawks four nil the vocal was also russia's goaltender at the olympics in vancouver this year and fellow new signing that has cost him a free agent on july the first and decided to continue his career back home the twenty six year old defenseman joined the l.a. kings in two thousand and two percent paid for three other n.h.l. clubs but stahl say they're pleased to be back home so that parents can see them playing on home ice. and put them in more children those progression and that. one of the reasons for coming back home so they could learn the language the culture and see the way russians live here ok i'm kidding but my boyfriend's parents for

support green margins are to come back home especially my father was very glad to hear that he can watch me play more often use my stand i just asked for me my parents were also donated and my mother will be able to see me doing the season i found falls ny and i choke or we're watching games at night because of the time difference and now i'll be easier for him as he will get an opportunity to watch scott games in the evenings on those details on the other hand that's all the sport for this post and. shows that so much there's a huge musician. is culture powerful than ideology but the price of an emerging pattern is a lot more clashes. every

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the observed nature and discoveries. communicate with the wild and lemon. test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you a nazi. the number of dead. russia's heat wave rises to fifty two firefighters stepped up the battle as wildfires approach areas contaminated by the chernobyl catastrophe. as moscow was continuing to suffer from small it's already impeding the city's our ports or several flights have already been delayed.

calls for a nuclear free world as it marks sixty five years since the atomic bomb which destroyed the city taking tens of thousands of lives. is being sworn in as paul ince new president. in central polish capital joined us from warsaw for the latest details. also with the drought and fires raging in russia will be assessing the economic impact of the severe weather joining us from the business update in about twenty minutes time. nine pm friday night here in moscow welcome if you're just joining us this is the r.t. news channel with the top stories for you this hour and with the summer heat wave now feeling wildfires in twenty two regions across russia the death toll has risen

to fifty two more than three and a half thousand people have been left homeless in the capital's shrouded in dense small worth the city's ever experienced stacey reports. the small just really has come in and has blanketed no matter how healthy you may be doctors have saying to stay indoors and if you have to come outside for many reasons they're urging you to wear a mask it's awful outside and it hurts to breathe this stuff and then once you do taste it for hours after you've gone inside your homes are also getting reports that in certain areas throughout moscow the air quality is twenty times poorer than usual so this is a very serious situation and this is all going down as firefighters continue to battle blazes throughout the country six hundred fires and so far one hundred fifteen thousand have been burned but to give you an idea exactly how big that is we're talking about lining up one hundred fifteen thousand baseball fields or a.