aaron to ask. in august 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. to this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind america's decision to use nuclear weapons but with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb i have no question that there were those in the u.s. military who pursued the next as the snow. and planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki countless books and films have off the many justification for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to

the arguments that the bombs were dropped not so it's a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union. the 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in wall was in the city if there is steam on the 6th of august 945 well over 100000 citizens were killed those in the hype a sense of what instantly turned into dust while countless others died from the burns and high dose of radiation they received. over $50000.00 survivors. still live in the city each one of them has their own story to tell of the day the bomb fell and i was on my way to meet one. which from.

since. so i think you are beat up. because. our semi-conscious good movies are rather more intimate. she's seeing this it looks like i dream of. she says it's the i'm not going there ok i sound no mouth. on a sound not happening the us. was just a 13 year old schoolgirl that day and as i was about to find out recalling those events hasn't become any easier even after 70 years and. character are nothing out of this shell that syria horoscope of course on this guy are doing. now

because there are a stunning that will never pass. the media. that that big. stayed up corner any money so we're all crass and when the assassin quadruped the gunmen. and you go there. or how to hack the car the one cow. with that though that's going to the moon or. cory dell that they can reach their bill hugo i gave in it's so real you. know. i said. so it's. clear that there are now i know. how you not going to call me good. which. you should. but there's been.

no so you go we must turn it. the right seem to me to learn. then there are issues. to me. i was happy to work we had been in a long war we had been attacked by the japanese the japanese people were not ice people when i was there. 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. it was president's harry s. truman who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb he'd only been in office for

a little under 4 months. a short time ago an american air play in dropped one on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy where this we have added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction that has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. here yet the grandson like of the president who decided to drop the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki i think is going to see the legacy of. ronnie more things to go into the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of people they build it up lacey so who is coming out of your life because. of course i have to see i was going this decision if it is personal i was told he was the war the top of all please be enjoyed to this day because they. matter to me it is not you he said

these are sorry yes from the m.r.i. holly bass is nice to me if i have so much as muses i just missed being demanded just enough. yeah you know mr. just you wait oh. did. you know. some of it is real or is that is this. you feel you have in your relationship with the grandfather. of the good ones i'm sorry if that you. you know of course you sociate sex i don't mean oh yeah no no no no no i know i understand completely when i was a kid yeah very annoying sometimes because you're a teenager and you're trying to figure out who you are you know and and what you turn out to be for a lot of people as an adjunct to somebody else so they you know your grandfather was wonderful and all i remember your grandfather and yeah yeah yeah. you know thanks. as i've gotten older know it's you know there's

a legacy yeah and. you do with it what you can as a legacy to kind of boy oh i could have. chose not to yeah i when i was in my late thirty's i kind of rediscovered my grandfather as a human being i mean i you know the history is always there. with a sense of victory in the allies were already looking forward to a post-war world by the poles done conference on the 18th of july $945.00. american relations had been fairly good under roosevelt truman was an unknown quantity to stalin and this meeting marks a turning point in relations between the allies. truman at potsdam did indicate to stalin that we had a new weapon he did not specify what it was and he believed that stalin did not know and stalin's response was nonchalant which was well i hope you used it to good

effect against the enemy but we now know from a variety of sources including former soviet sources that stall the knew very well what truman was talking about through his sources in stunning pointlessly. it should not at the melbourne but at the cinema start then ridicule anybody the 3rd answering for months or so. is a distance from on the story. of the real so i will do that in the beginning there was the one because i did them austin. where you see what. was from the curse. of the sutures business mr fischer injuries it's all mental illness and. you're going to. say. how can you cares i'm going to want you to stay there. every night. i think you're.

going to. get smashed as soon as you got your. money good she was delivering mail when a 2nd plutonium bomb called 1st month fell on nagasaki sheets from the blast melted the skin on his bike and left footage of his horrific injuries has become iconic assume its hero is now a living symbol of the suffering caused by the bombs. are going to. cut down at my desk when i get there. at night. i think commission.

and certainly i think. you know. this city was in the original targets for the 2nd spots mine was destined for cora but the weather was overcast a bit like today so the boxcar b. 29 changed course and headed to a secondary target stocking. just 3 days after hiroshima on the 9th of august the 2nd atomic bomb exploded with a destructive force of 21 killer tons of t.n.t. and killed over 70000 of the city's residents. the comprehensive fire bombing campaign conducted before the a bombs had left japan in ruins the us already had the country blockaded and cuts

off from food and fuel. us to keep bombing survey that was done at the end of the work concluded that the japanese would have surrendered even if the bomb had nothing used even if the invasion had not gone forward that they would have surrendered prior to november 1st which i think was the date for operational one pick the invasion of the home islands so why did the us drop the bombs that's what is starting to debating and i think that truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to try to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender before the russians got in so the russians will not get all those concessions that we have promised them number one number 2 and equally if not more important the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union. with each country looking to carve out the spheres of influence after the war relations between east and west were rapidly declined and larry korea lies that euclid poet equal to political power on the world stage

and documents from as early as $945.00 suggests that the allies were turning against each other. in the planning actually in october of 1945 and had. chosen 20 targets in russia moscow and leningrad were also included in the target list early on and as i understand it just from talking to some of the more planners they designate a ground 0 was to be either the kremlin itself or it was a power plant that was very close to the kremlin as the bombs got larger they would move the designated ground 0 to a point so that it would destroy more targets just put one weapon to. a reasonable. concern linton's committee just to present this to look it was good it was so. you know and we used to receive a political signal still plenty ticking so i just knew i couldn't what is it about

that which what i'm sick at the cops that it was then you should read that i'm looking or do we literally college still serious could go to. get it on the. condition that. i need it really should it come from. the sort of inside some cinema stuff we did she was college for good cinema to producing in school so it was a you know you're going to get off. point for the foreseeable future wall between the united states and russia will be the result of a miscalculation by recently just the capabilities of the united states and they will go mach it will be different it's industrial sensors in brochures us bonds talkers. some other solution that's right where we come up with solutions to all the problems they cover on the other shows we do anyway we've got. to the luna dish and

with a special guest mark valley increment on the. same wrong. just don't. get to shape out just being educated and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she stood up for common ground. nothing must be right. and so now each is an 82 year old neck a sucky bomb survivor both he and his daughter travel around schools talking to

children about the war. so now uses cartoons to help him share with a younger audience his experience of the day the bomb fell. salute to. all and not only much of a. salute to keith swamiji kunle coach more doc doesn't need to feel sorry it came back with what sticks did it and. so little can. be. let us know kelly. for the get it you got there must a lot. but i do mate i would i let it start to go. back before that i started it how. they need us and this of the 2 of them

on narcotic mother would looked up look in the muck local good morning again. we hit it still you know i musta. mocked local you know would you son well. you know much the words emits a smile sort of you so he did the any mortal. this can go away study the worst tuned or one or negate will by so and there. will be enough i already must be this. will need to guy night. i get to meet on this. cold war you must all punch in the world with you move up was so loud i will make a move i just sent you with a door you must will kill me well what then will. you give back when its in the way it did in this no wish to do us to meet up with the need. we'll go on the day to

day more put up the work on us. going on says cool people study days for more she will but there is i will watch let the eyes full she must go to the what i see no. more than bull cindy did very well you know what it's. but what i see them getting right in much. i think that the were believed at the time to be this. general marshall who was head of the us military during the war after the war we didn't want to have to invade japan we knew we would kill many japanese and many americans would die as well. that was truman's just if occasion to save hoffa 1000000 american lives that would otherwise have been lost if they didn't they did the mainland.

what i don't understand is how people who have presumably studied the same documents and. different conclusions about the bombings i don't understand it either to me it's such a clear cut issue if you look at what the us intelligence was saying if you look at the comments of american leaders at the time in fact 6 of america's 75 star admiral tim generals who got their 5th star during the war record as saying that the bomb was either militarily unnecessary morally reprehensible or both you can't come to any other conclusion and that the bomb was not necessary that the soviet invasion was going to end the war that the u.s. invasion was not going to begin till november 1st so we dropped the bomb that august 6th and august 9th invasion is not going to take place for 3 more months why do we do it why you have to conclude that we wanted to do it.

greta show me around the hiroshima peace memorial museum brings back mixed emotions terrible memories of the bomb but also happy ones from her wedding which was held in the grounds. the hiroshima city government has suggested removing some of the exhibits over concerns that children find them frightening. but chilcote doesn't think they're realistic enough. to know stone the rules. are not going to comment on the. ship. scott. wants me to come back she. definitely.

has had some. wars. cornishman in their. car so. do i regret the atomic pression i regret we had to do it but i think we had to do it in order to end the war with a minimum loss of life if the same situation existed again exactly as there as it had back in 1945 yes i would go on i would volunteer for about i don't want to go to war. yeah a memoir where. it is it's

a personal it's sort of the change from i you know i like most americans born in that time growing up after the war the bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and that's what my grandfather always said was his reason for the decision to end the war and save american lives primarily but would otherwise likely be lost in an invasion of the main islands so i went from not giving it much thought at all to . being confronted one day with with the reality that people lost their lives and in horrible ways 2. japan is still counting the cost of the a bombs the government makes monthly health care payments to the survivors to help with treatment not just for the physical effects of radiation exposure but also the

psychological impacts. many of them come to this clinics especially for the here in hiroshima. no. one day and nothing in the law or. why do people go so he went to. be with you up until they don't answer you know. since 2 course of course. they skip them. and then. they don't like to go. what a great way to run the night. and the philadelphia and new

game that if you did something nice you know if you know that this deal and will those who know that out of those or have sang with you. or king then move. on just you know. since in 2000 instance or more to your p.t.s.d. this could move the american north or to new moon unit on the dock now you are now . at the minute all right in the snow through all. this kind of so do what's good for your new i don't like your kind of stuff. after the war the japanese constitution was changed by the americans and it's remained in place of

a sense including article 9 which prohibits japan from having its own military and the country can still protect itself with its self defense forces including its fleets which is poly base to the american naval base in your corsica. no where is the american incursion more evident brita street all the haunch as it's known by the sailors is just a stone's throw from the naval base. any time baby i have no idea about things. is the place to go if you want a native burka or to go shopping at the army surplus store. and drop city seems to be particularly popular among your crusaders foreign guests . that's right the american sailors are making the most of the downtime here

8. however the u.s. base in okinawa is probably the most controversial i suppose ah it's home to 21000 service personnel more than morning 3 of all american soldiers based in the asia pacific region and the locals want them gone. to their group and others on it i mean kind of been sort of these marines. this is something you know i mean you go. on all day he got. on a how. are they going to stop. this one of them with all of us has been you know that's if. i know you have something to

all the way i can pull it back i must. i didn't assume that on its own had enough. i mean i'm looking at it and i thought that. what i thought what am i going to do this since it was that. despite the atomic bombings in japan and the united states have an amicable and close relationship today however no incumbent u.s. president has visited here ashima or nagasaki and america's yet to receive an apology for the surprise attack on pearl harbor. truman lived until he was 88 and stood by his decision to drop the atomic bombs to the day he died. so you don't think there will be. no i don't think there will be i don't you know there's no harm in talking about it and i don't know that will ever be an apology maybe the 2 countries can find language that. that that brings them together to say you know we

acknowledge that serious hurt is done on both sides and we we own that and we are going forward it doesn't feel at this point that it will ever be a flat out apology from the u.s. to japan or the other way around i don't know that the united states has ever asked japan for an apology for pearl harbor or that they've offered it so what do you think about american know the naive dymo the innocent i guess you call it though. at this point turning you in a corner in a circle i mean you kind of i may. say not small although i sound like that go to or not the way here's. some of what the one you know said to me or throwing them all. now. well. i can watch. for.

following the atomic bombing of 2 cities over 300000 japanese lost their lives this plans to attack the us assad actually being carried out in which 20 cities with targeted including population centers like moscow leningrad. the number of lives lost would have been in the millions. fortunately that never happened but it did most of the start of a new era the cold war. the

embassy maxwell saga is one of the most sensational stories of our time however the media coverage appears to be limited to learning details and political overtones the single biggest question that needs to be answered is how all this could have happened where was law enforcement and will justice be finally sir. how can you explain love i've been to 82 countries i've given 12 but i came here and on those 3 days i just filled with hope. and he kept pretty isn't the 6 show. i made my decision to come here because 'd i felt and you i could build a new life you see it the who should know think a prisoner. is

a free man but i think god decided that this man is no good to be free. you know i was there my one dream is that all my children find the same kind of happiness i do. i love my home i love cold weather i like the culture i like the history i like everything about it. it's on those nights. i know that. i am joined a russian fama.