complaining 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 argument 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 there was in the hype a sense of what instantly turned into dust while countless all 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. which. we sure ain't you. had any. chance to make up and just moving through the floor in the. 4th. 3 months they. see you next and name that. sound. on nice and now remember. kyoko coeur barra 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. character or nothing and this shell that caroline said i knew horoscope of course on this car. that was now closer than a semi that will never pass. the media. that that bringing down. staying up can any money is so doctoral class and when the marcellus and quadruple ok and you go there. or how do you have to clear them on cow on the way you look with the letter p. that's going to the moon or castle. corey del to dignitas then bill you go i guarantee it's a real. no. i said. since it's.

clear that there are now i know. how you not going to call me good go or. reach. your senate that there's been. nothing so you don't go away you must turn it. the right seem to me to learn then there are issues. to me were. i was happy to work we had been in a long war we had been attacked by the japanese the japanese people were not nice 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 argonaut in science in history. 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 on into

the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of people we 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 job 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 nice medium i think so much misses just missed being demanded just enough. yeah you know mr. did you do a oh. did. you know. some of it is real or is that is this. if you feel you have in your relationship with the grandfather. of 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 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 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 stallman 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 this that's all they knew very well what truman was talking about through his sources in stunning pointlessly. not at the melbourne but at the cinema stop then ridicule anybody else they would not answer in 4 months or so. is a distance from. the real so yeah i will do that in the beginning there was because i did them often putting them where you see what.

was from the curse. of the sutures business mr fisher injuries but it's almost all of us are. going to. say. how can he cares we're going to want to stay there. every night. and you have to. be met as soon as you've got your. money gucci was delivering mail when a 2nd plutonium bomb called farts man 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 get to

that anatomy. when i get there. at night to. say no to having. it in a condition. actually going up it's going to. so to me i think. it's just you know. and i. this city was in the original targets for the 2nd spots mine 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 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 lympics 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 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 the allies were turning against each other. in the planning actually in october of 1945 and had. shows and 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 war 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 with one weapon typical.

of the linton's going to do just percent they said it was good it was so i'm sure you know we are going to see the political but signal is still plenty ticking so just no question what is it about the switch what i'm sick at the cops that it was the news from it that i'm looking at this would be literally college still serious you're going to. get it on the. condition that. i need it really should it come from thought simply to screw the status inside some cinema stuff and ridicule we need college for good and it's that cinema to producing a school so i use a. little. point forward in the foreseeable future war between the united states and russia will be the result of a miscalculation by russian leaders of the capabilities contention the united states and they go mock all of the different industries senses in bush or the us funks talkers.

thinking of getting a cute puppy once we got in here should want to know what's. in this new a wired beatles music crate with him he will just. freaking out. when it's pretty much anywhere near. breeding dogs or caged in into maine conditions on puppy farms i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the courtier the rain the snow the thunder nothing they have no protection. because you. know it's 2 kids. across the u.s.

cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a good businesses are involved like cargill among santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to efforts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog. nothing must be tied down. and so now each is an 82 year old nicholas sucky bomb survivor both he and his daughter no cool travel around schools talking to children about the war. some are used as cartoons to help him share with

a younger audience his experience of the day the bomb fell with their. thank you e he. so to me. i'm not the only much the. saluki swamiji kunle coach. doesn't need to feel sorry it came back with what sticks did it and it's a. slow poke can. be. but that's no room. for the get it you got there must. but i do mate i would not it started. before that i started how. they 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 still yeah i must. slow mock local you know would you son well. you know much you words emits a smug 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. or need to guy night more i get to meet on this and more macpro get a cold one you must all punch in the wood with you move up also not i will miss you more god since you. do what you must i will kill meanwhile want to. give back when it's in the way it did when this can do no wish to do us to meet up with the need. wheel on the day to day or do they more put up the walk on and.

on says or. study days for more she will one day i will watch let the ice will she must still do what i say no. more than the walk in bull she did very well you know what did she. i want us to get it right or must. i think that the bombs were believed at the time to be necessary as general marshall who was head of the us military during the war said 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. though it was truman's just occasion to save half 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 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 admiral 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 the u.s. invasion was not going to begin till november 1st so we dropped the bomb and august 6th in august 9th interventions that can take place for 3 more months why do we do it why you have to conclude that we wanted to do it.

agreed to show me around the hiroshima peace memorial museum for 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 governments to suggest that 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. korean or. i want to comment on the. study. of the ship. scott. on the back. everything. is.

cool you can't decide what. wars think i have no question 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 nordic and 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 war. 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 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 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. no. one day and nothing in the law or. why do people still. want to. be with you up. until they don't answer you know. since 2 course. of the. quarter if. you get out. and. yeah. really. and the philadelphia and new jim duffy did something nice you know if you know that

this deal and those who know that out of those or have the tank you. can move. on just you know. since in 2000. and skinner more to buy your p.t.s.d. this could move the american north or to need more needles on the job now you're not seeing at the minute moment in the snow through all. this kind of so to school your new i don't like your kind of stuff. off the wall 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 based to the american naval base in your corsica. nowhere is the american incursion more evident brita street 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 a native burka or to go shopping at the army surplus store. and drop city seems to be particularly popular among the acoustic is foreign guests . the american sailors are making the most of the downtime

8. however the u.s. base in okinawa is probably the most controversial i suppose so 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. during the end of august and then i mean kind of been sort of these marines. this is something you know i mean you go out and what. it's like all got. on one of those and how. they're going to stop. this one of them with all of us has been you know that's if. that's got to have up . on you because i think you have all the hey i can pull it back i must. i didn't

assume so i had enough. sense coming in and looking and i thought that. that 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 incumbents u.s. president to visit to tear ashima on august saki and america has 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 the m o then the so i guess you call the. turning you were in the quarter and of some. kind i may. say not small all of us and i that go to or not the way here. yes not going to. some of what the one you know city or 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. is

your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. and also live debt. or a maybe lose shiloh's. shock

turns to rage in lebanon where a capital still reeling from tuesday's massive explosion the events of security at perceived government incompetence which protesters allege led to the deadly disaster in rest comes as rescue teams continue to look for people still trapped under the rubble for blast killed 150 people and injured more than 6000. people st. jude street but it was a choice. 75 years after the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki by.