i was born and raised in hiroshima outsiders always emphasize that i am from hiroshima hiroshima hiroshima i don't enjoy that very much. does not me being from hiroshima do i feel you know to be to to make a contribution. that is a university a learned a lot about conflicts in the world. to the really easy to always the children. this is the law in general. the nuclear powers are perfectly aware that their bombs are ten twenty one hundred. but with an down cynicism the military are searching for more flexible uses. there are discussions about the development of nuclear weapons of smaller caliber or a capacity to penetrate deeper. american plans to develop what we call the bunker buster of letdowns that we say will not spread radioactivity actually in such weapons only get a short distance under the earth which stir up more radioactive debris and again in the case of hiroshima that type of radioactive fallout was limited because it was an air burst weapon it's not the same as how they all of your target your building materials themselves contaminated by the force of the explosion. now we've

hiroshima a visit? >> i think it would have been nice but frankly if the president would have done this, we wouldn't be sitting here talking about what a great trip he had to india. monica and pat would be saying enough with the apology tour. so, i think this is not an invitation that has been head lined and i don't think there were any expectations of this president. he has been gone for ten days. it's time for him to come home. >> this is a historical wasps nest he didn't want to polk. he sent the u.s. ambassador to japan to the memorial in august on the actual anniversary of the dropping of the bomb. so, there was no need for him to go. you don't want to suggest moral he quiff vow lens in the role of the united states in world war ii and imperial japan in world war ii. the dropping of those weapons brought an end to the war. it was a last resort. truman didn't want to do it. but at the risk of having a full ground invasion of japan to end the war, it was the right moral decision. >> that's propositio

the 60-plus cities that are bombed before hiroshima, nagasaki plus hiroshima, nagasaki, the numbers come out roughly the same, about 400-600,000 civilians were killed in the air war in japan. so your total figure is about a million civilians were bombed in those two wars culminating in hiroshima, nagasaki. had i been living at the time, i have no reason to think i wouldn't have supported that. but when we suddenly learned that terror bombing or hear that terror bombing is something peculiar to an alien culture, that it's those people who don't respect individuals whereas we do, that they have different standards, i think then that's where we have to really start asking deeper questions. >> host: and yet to take an 18-year-old whether it's a u.s. or a japanese or german or chinese and be able to turn an 18-year-old into someone who is capable of doing truly horrific things to complete strangers for reasons of state is a very unnatural act. it takes a lot of conditioning. and so there's a lot of dehumanization ha goes on both of the perpetrator as well as the victim. and i think this carri

on hiroshima but then i would have. a makes me angry that nobody knows what is your low level it is a little. bit. march first one nine hundred fifty four the islanders are amazed to see the sun rising in the west but this star is a thermonuclear bomb bravo irradiates the sky while the wind blows towards the atoll of around laugh. with every member i'm on. yes i think so we don't know. whether it but they only letting us sleeping. right nights completely who in my. when the lights go in thousand we've seen that thing goes down from. around the ground. like us and our lights. and then the next pair is strong and true eyes everywhere and the ground was moving say and we were so scared. we would be back there to add eleven id so we hide for several hours and when we have game back we see you don't know why things are the full well we get the powder. there's no what he has to meet. turned out to be a lot more than they expected. they didn't bother to move the bronco people because. it was basically too complicated logistics

we always used that word for ground zero meant hiroshima, nag -- nagasaki. i kept waiting for somebody to say ground zero, weapons of mass destruction, where had the word come from? of course, it came from world war ii and weapons of mass destruction terrify us. come out of that experience. but no one made the connections. it was as if we had just taken it. there was no way of thinking about the original ground zero. and then you began to have the language of terror bombing. now any historian of world war ii just routinely has used the word terror bombing for world war ii. and it occurs primarily in conjunction with the anglo-american air war first in europe, then finally in japan. that culminates in hiroshima and nagasaki. in modern war, you must destroy the morale of the enemy. that's one the weapons of war. you destroy the industry, the armies, the morale of the enemy. it became standard operating procedure in world war ii to deliberately target densely populated urban areas. we tend to think of hiroshima, nagasaki if we think of them at all in isolation.

this shows hagiwara playing in hiroshima. she is from hiroshima and is now based in paris. she began playing the piano at the age of 5. at 13, she became the youngest winner of an international competition in italy. she received the masters degree in july from the conservatoire de paris, finishing top of her class. >> translator: i was so surprised and couldn't believe i won the competition. i didn't even notice when my name was called. >>> the japanese government is planning to designate japan's highest mountain and the country's most famous icon as a national historical site. the cultural affairs agency panel has recommended that mt. fuji be officially recognized as being of great importance to japanese culture. the 3,776 meter high mt. fuji is located in central japan. it's an active volcano, but still it's worshipped as the sacred mountain that continues to attract thousands of pilgrims each year. in the ancient poetry book "manyoshu," mt. fuji is defined as a pacifying deity. mt. fuji is already legally protected as a place of special scenic beauty. the new recommendat

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iraq. >> well, the real tie is hiroshima and 9/11.that was the real tie. because ground zero is an atomic bomb freeze. that was the original association and that came to the question of terror bombing or deliberately -- and that is a practice that comes out of world war ii, the air war in world war ii. they wanted to destroy enemy morale of the anglo-american with the united states and it was done in germany, japan and culminates in hiroshima. so the ground zero 45, ground zero 2001 is the link. the iraq link was a choice to begin with, because we go from 9/11, this war of choice by the islamist terrorists, to the japanese war of choice earlier and there is a parallel. and then suddenly we have a war of choice against iraq, and then we had a terrific failure of intelligence in iraq. just a disastrous failure of intelligence upon the united states. and so then you have got pearl harbor which was a japanese tag correctly brilliant strategic idiotic thing. you have the war of choice of the islamist and america is doing a war of choice. s

now in our special report we find out about the children of hiroshima condemned to suffer the nightmare of genetic defects they hope atomic history will never repeat itself is coming right up on r.t. .

different dimension so it began with 9/11 and then became much more complicated >> tie together hiroshima and iraq. >> the real tie eight is 9/11 and i iraq because ground zero is the atomic bomb that is the original association of the question of tariff board -- bombing to deliberately attack civilians as the practice of coming at of world war ii if you wanted to destroy morale and the anglo-american and air power of the united states it was done in germany. ground 0,452,001, the direct link his eighth choice because we go from 9/11 from the islamist terrorists and then it suddenly be have a war of choice against iraq then a terrific sillier of intelligence on the part of the united states then you have pearl harbor which was tactically brilliant and strategic and then america so i am a historian and i want to understand it is not all the same but i want to see how you think comparatively but in our modern times even with the new technology, i really wanted to wrestle with it. and i had to figure out things for myself. >> vietnam is not a focus. why? >> it is not a focus because there si

and iraq. >> guest: well, the real tie is hiroshima and 9/11. that's, that was the real tie. because ground zero is is an atomic bomb phrase. that was the original association, and that would put you into the question of terror bombing or deliberately targeting civilians. and that's a practice that comes out of world war ii. the air war in world war ii you wanted to destroy enemy morale of the anglo-american air powers, england and the united states. and it was done in the germany, carried to japan, culminates in hiroshima. so the ground zero '45, ground zero 2001 is the link. the iraq link is is, was a choice to begin with because we go from 9/11, this war of choice by the islamist terrorists, to the japanese war of choice earlier, and there's a parallel. and then suddenly we have a war of choice against iraq. and then we have a terrific failure of intelligence in iraq, just a disastrous failure of intelligence on on the part of the united states. and so then you've got pearl harbor which was a japanese tactical, tactically brilliant, strategic

nonfiction category for cultures of war, pearl harbor from hiroshima, 9/11 and iraq. .. >> i wasn't doing it for theatrics but i have a brand new fit. [applause] >> i loved it. but the rest of the body has caught up. we go slow. nobody is moderating us. we are just talking. >> we are talking about frederick douglass, libraries, literacy and liberation. >> absolutely. let me start with literacy. because a want other people to know about it what we did. i am interested obviously in literacy. i am impressed with what recently discovered which was that this country is unique in the world in terms of the distribution of libraries throughout the country. you cannot go in rural areas in europe or in africa or in asia. rural areas the way you can hear which, a little town. not to speak of the huge university library that jumps out of nowhere in indiana or someplace. in pennsylvania you go 100 miles and there is this enormous university was more books than cambridge. it is an extraordinary thing. the other thing is about literacy, which i am interested in, is on the one hand the power of reading a

hundred forty killer tongue nuclear charge was nine times stronger than the bomb that was detonated at hiroshima the blast tore a hole in the landscape. after it had settled the crater left behind it was four hundred thirty meters in diameter and one hundred meters deep. in april nine hundred sixty five a special channel was made to flood the crater with. scientists hopes that spring floodwater would fill the giant basins they also hope the craters would provide enough water for irrigation and cattle breeding because they didn't expect much of operation from the relatively small surface area. in the one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union carried out one hundred twenty four nuclear explosions under the atoms for peace program most have the aim of facilitating the mining of minerals forty five years on scientists at kazakhstan's institute of radiation safety and ecology still regularly monitor radiation levels in the nuclear lake today a group under the direction of yuri still joke is heading that yuri moved to kazakstan from ukraine in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he knows these parts

commemorate the 30th anniversary of the declaration, the city is holding a exhibition about the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. >> what's happened so far in manchester? >> the city of manchester kicked off a series of anniversary events on thursday with an exhibition showing the devastation caused by nuclear weapons. during the opening ceremony, a veteran spoke about his experience as an atomic bomb survivor. the 76-year-old man has been appointed as a special envoy by japan's foreign ministry. >> i also had very sad experiences due to the war. i hope to tell the young people of england about this. >> at the exhibition at the people's history museum in manchester, about 50 photos from heiroshima and nagasaki are on display. some photos showing the atomic bomb victims are so shocking that the museum has posted a warning especially for children. >> i think this exhibition is a great idea to teach the new generations and to still have survivors will definitely help understand all the effects. >> japanese special envoy will talk to 100 children in eng glash about his experience as an atomic bomb surv