day the bomb fell and i was on my way to meet one. little. one so i think she will. have. our semi-conscious good movie for 3 hours or more and i said i think she's doing this. i don't really want to. she says it's. ok i sound. on nice and not now remember the u.s. . 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. they are the shell that iraq's new home or a school or the one this guy are doing. now because they're going to spend money

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is you shit in a senate. the. so you know we must donate. their rights to material. then they 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 presidents 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 arab by in drought to run on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy for this but we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction that has been done is the greatest achievement of irgun i in 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 he bought into the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of japanese people they build it up places so it was totally out of your life because. of course i have to see i was trying to decisions fit his personal life as i told you

was the war the job of all please be enjoyed to this day because. to be a. teacher so yeah my wife calling us from the poison uses must be done just you know. yeah you know it's the new way oh. did. you know. some of it is real soldiers and is this. because you feel you in your relationship with. the good ones i'm sorry if that you . you know of course you sociate 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 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 no it's you know there's a legacy yeah and. you do with it what you can there's 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 dollars we're already looking forward to a post-war world by the polls 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 to go to

fail. again study the enemy but we now know from a variety of sources including former soviet sources is that all the knew very well what truman was talking about through his own sources in style importance to achieve none of them had one but it was to cinemas that then ridicule anybody else they would not answer in 4 months or so has been saved is a distance from him at the store he's got them there one of the real so you will do that in the beginning at the last word because that is him allston barnum swaim wish for you see what. was in the curse. business is to ensure. its own moment's notice and. you get thank. you q how can you

cancel account of 121010. every night. and they say oh you have to go. and snatch a syringe you've got. sumit territory grucci was delivering mail when a 2nd plutonium bomb called 1st month fell on nagasaki kids 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. and the day that data might. get to. where you're at to. let him out of commission.

square. at all times and i think. this city was in the original targets for the 2nd bomb fights one was destined for the quarter but the weather was overcast a bit like today so the boxcar b. 29 changed course and headed to a secondary target nagasaki. 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 u.s.

already had the country blockaded and could offer food and fuel. west keiji bombing survey that was done at the end of the work concluded that the japanese would have surrendered. even if the bomb had not been 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 historians are 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 would not get all those concessions that we had 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 all the spheres of influence after the war relations between east and west were aligned larry korea

lies that euclid's poet equals political power on the world stage and documents from as early as $945.00 suggest that the allies would 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 planets 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 with one weapon to. a reasonable. linton's committee just percent they said it was good it was so. we political diplomatic and so this new could be made at about the

switch with some secret to cops that it was then you should get a book. on the. condition. that's appropriate. and it will really tryna come from thoughts simply to screw them so i guess i'm saying some cinema stop america where the choice need college for good are both going to make it into the 2nd school so you have a. point forward in the foreseeable future a war between the united states and russia will be the result of a miscalculation by russian leaders of the capabilities on contention the united states and they would all model all of the different industrial sensors in bush or the us bonds targets.

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a free man for god decided that this man is no good to be free. my one dream is that all my children 'd find the same kind of happiness i do. i love my home here i love cold weather i like the culture i like the history i like everything about it. and i know that. i am joined russian fama. my. son now ek is an 82 year old nick a sucky bomb survivor both he and his daughter. travel around schools talking to

children about the wall. now uses cartoons to help them share with a younger audience his experience of the day the bomb fell. salute to. all and not only must of the. saluki swamiji gun or a school board up doesn't need to feel sad it came back with what sticks did it and if. so little can. be. let us know who killed me. for the get it you got there must. but i do mit i would not it started. back before that was started it.

did need us and this of the. 2 of them on narcotic mother would looked at the kid in the muck local good morning again. we hit it to me i must. slow local you know would you son well. you know much you words emits a smushed sort of you so he did he any mortal. this can go away study the worst 2 nd or one or negate will by so were not. only not i already must this. will need to guy night. i get to meet on this and got more money for the cold war you must all punch in the when you move up also not i will miss you more god since you would i do what you must i will kill meanwhile want to. get back when its in the way it did in this no was good us to meet up you need see santa. wheeled on the day to day are they

more pulled up the walk on. one says or steeple studied swim or she will one day and i will watch let the ice for she must still do what i say no cold day. in she did very well you know not it's. what that's not good enough and much. i think that the were believed at the time to be this. general marshall who was head of the u.s. 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 a 1000000 american lives that would otherwise have been lost if that invaded 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 admirals and 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 and 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 it brings back mixed emotions terrible memories of the bomb but also happy ones from her wedding which was held in the grounds. there she must 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. stone the rules. are not going to come to mean. squat. on the back she's going to get behind everything. is. i

don't think this had an accent. or think i have no question in their finished college so. they're sure you. do i regret the atomic pressure and 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 then as it had back in 1945 yes i would go on i would volunteer for about some other fact i don't want to go to war. yeah a memoir with. it is it's

a personal it's sort of the change from i you know i like most americans born in that time and 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. japan is still counting the cost of the a bombs the government's 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 clinic set up especially for the here in hiroshima. clone that i knew some know impacts i know qatada to stay overnight addresses. one day and nothing in the law or as i said move. to stand on water if you look no quarter throw so here kyra i want to go below i thought as i've gotten to come in the next you know i'm got to take my city since course of course or southern afghanistan there's kid on the corner of me. got it. yeah it's. really. an authorial not. given that you did something nice you know that.

goes. out to those who have sank you. just you know. since in 2006 kids are more to buying your p.t.s.d. this kingdom or the american north 13 the more needles on the dock now your not seen the money or wanted. to didn't pass. this kind of sort of school yarn. to britain. after the war the japanese constitution was changed by the americans and it's remained in place ever since including article 9 which prohibits japan from having

its own military. well the country can still protect itself with its self defense forces including its fleets which is partly based to the american naval base in your corsica. nowhere is the american incursion more evident brita st paul 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 what that means. is the place to go if you want to native or to go shopping at the army surplus store. and rock city seems to be particularly popular among your cusa because foreign guests. star the american citizen making the most of the downtime here 8.

however the u.s. base in okinawa is probably the most controversial i suppose so. it's home to 21000 service personnel more the morning 3 of all american soldiers based in the asia pacific region and the locals want them gone. to their group yanukovych and wanted their mommy kind of been one of these men. this is something i'm going to have any chance and that oh it's a death of a hiking off and on they have got to get there and one of the lot that ana he had to get there how. they're going to stop. this one of them with all of us has been mean that's if get off on all of us about the. you know you just

i think you have all the hey i can pull it back i must and i. i didn't miss it i thought i saw how much. i mean. when i saw that it was an addict or next i would have thought what am i going to do this year since it was that i guess is the. despite the atomic bombings in japan and the united states have an amicable and close relationship today however no incumbent u.s. president has visit to tear ashima on august saki 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 offered it so what do you think about america no no no you got the demo the innocent i guess you call the. turning you were in a corner in a circle crap and made you cry let me. give you an yell numerous a small oh i sound bad go to the way here and he. has a full. stomach with the one you know 2nd we are throwing them all. now . well. i can.

for. following the atomic bombing of 2 cities over 300000 japanese lost their lives. plans to attack the us assad actually being carried out in which 20 cities were 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 mark the start of a new era the cold war. some

our solution starts right where we come up with solutions to all the problems they cover on the other shows right there anyway today we've got a cold to the moon edition with a special guest mark valid incremental. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage give many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city knows turn around and told me stay away oh miss. it. no it's because yes that requires. the streets to be

invisible. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as

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