and not just sucking up. 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. year 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 just of occasions 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 of those 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. who told. me she was a. thing. sumac

let's just get a movie rather more innocent. she's saying this it looks like a dream honestly. she says it's given that ok i sound. on a sound not happening the last. bara 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. care there were nothing out of this shell that see i knew her. cause only this car. was now closer than a standing that will never pass yeah that the media. call that the bringing down. state up call in any market there is so little class that when the assassin quadruped at the net. and

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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 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 our going night 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 one thing to go into the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of japanese people they build it up they see so who is coming out of your life because. of course i have to see i was trying this decision if it is personal i was told he was the one the top of all please be enjoyed to this day because it's. to be a. teacher so yeah my wife calling us from the poison source muses must be divine justice and. yeah you know it's the new way. i'm very good. and. some of it is real so there's an end

to this. if you feel you have in your relationship with. the good ones i'm sorry if that. 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 i remember your grandfather and yeah yeah yeah. and 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 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. already looking forward to a post-war world by the poles done conference on the 18th of july 945 russian american relations had been fairly good under roosevelt truman was an unknown quantity to stalin and this meets in 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. against the enemy what we now know from a variety of sources including former soviet sources is that stalin knew very well what truman was talking about through his own sources in style importance to achieve none of them have one but it was to sit in the midst of them ridicule anybody else they would not answer in 4 months or so has been saved. from on them

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when a 2nd plutonium bomb called fatah man 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. 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 soar 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 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 the 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 cause spheres of influence after the war relations between east and west were rapidly declining to a very korea lies that euclid poet equals political power on the world stage and documents from as early as $945.00 suggest 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. the linton's committee just percent they said it was good it was so i'm sure you know we are political politically so to some there could be more of that about the switch what i'm stupid to cops that it was the news from it that i looked. at it on the. condition that it's appropriate. and it really shouldn't come from. medicare we need college for. use in school some of them now you're going to

put forward in the foreseeable future a war between the united states and russia will be the result of a miscalculation by recently just of the capabilities on contention the united states and they would go mop up all the different industries senses in bush a u.s. long time. summer solution. 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 valley incremental. the world is driven by dream shaped by.

the day or thinks. we dare to ask. you know my mate and. son know each is an 82 year old niggas 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. then.

there. i can. salute to. all and not only much of a. salute to keith swamiji kunle coach more doc doesn't need to feel sad at the game but what sticks did it and. so little can. be. let us know kelly. through how get it you got there must a lot. but i do mit i would not it started. before that i started how. did need us and this of the. 2 of them on narcotic mother more looked up look in the muck local good morning again. in the hit it dies to me i must. muck local you know with the sun well.

you know much the words emits a smushed sort of you so he did he any mortal. this can go away study the worst tuned or one or negated by so were not. enough i really must be this. will need to guy night. i get to meet on this group or get a cold one you must him a little punks in the with you moved up was another. door you must will kill may well want to. get back when it's in the way it did in this know was to do us to meet up with the need she's gonna come we will on the day to day or they more put up the work on us. going on says or. study some more she will one day and i will watch let the solution must store do what i say no

to all day. didn't she did very well you know what did she. what that's not good enough unless. i think that the were believed at the time to be this as 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 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 of. 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 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. 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 to move. that core you're not going to comment on the length. of the ship. scott. wants me on the back she's going to get everything. is. i don't think there's an accent. or something cornish national in their.

color 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 there 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 that 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 said to stay overnight aggressive.

one day and nothing in the law or as i said move. to stand on water go to 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. or southern afghanistan there's kid on the corner if. you are. gonna. drop it only. at northville a deal not. given that you did something nice you know. and those who. would have to tank you.

on just you know. since in 2000. and 2 there more to buying your p.t.s.d. they screwed up more the american or 13 the more needles on the doc now your not seen at the minute. through. this kind of sort of old school yarn. stuff written. 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 poly base hit the american naval base in your corsica.

nowhere is the american incursion more evident brita streets 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 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. start 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. is home to

21000 service personnel more the morning 3 of all american soldiers based in the asia pacific region on the locals want them gone. to their group yanukovych and hunted their mommy kind of been one of these men. is that something i mean to go out and watches and that oh it's a death of a hiking and all they have got to do is get there and one of the lot that get there how. they're going to stop. this one of them with all of us has been enough 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 see that on its own how much. i mean. when i go there they want to have an extra next that was what i wanted to discuss incidentally most of the 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 to 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 this or 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 america no no no you got the demo then this summer i guess you call the . turning you were in the quarter in a circle cap and you can let me. know although i sound like that go to the blue way here and. not going to. set up with the one you know 2nd you are throwing them all. now. 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. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the

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