it was similar to the design that was used on hiroshima. what to duck and cover. >> at the height of the cold war, americans were told to be prepared as threats of an atomic attack sent citizens into a spin. the nine states had strike power of its own, a nuclear bomb so big and powerful that was said to be 600 times more destructive than the one which leveled hiroshima in 1945. the be 53 was the size of a small car. it was first added to the arsenal in 1952. it was carried by the b-52 aircraft which would drop the 4,000 kilos bomb over its target using four parachutes. the bomb was retired in 1997, some 14 years later, the last remaining was dismantled as part of president obama's nuclear security agenda. >> to see all of the treaties, all the negotiations actually end up right here where we take apart these weapons and injure them forever so that they will never threatened another human being. -- and buried them forever so that they will never threatened another human being. >> another chapter in the cold war is now closed. >> you are watc

. >> before we return to the news, here are some colorful scenes from hiroshima. ♪ cosmos flowers aren full bloom at the national park. over 1.5 million plants are creating the landscape of the pink and white. this coming weekend, visitors will be allowed to pick the flowers and take them home. ♪ >>> preliminary radiation checks have been conducted on sake or rice wine and other alcoholic beverages produced near the fukushima daiichi power plant to ensure their safety. the national tax agency on wednesday tested samples for radioactive materials such as iodine and cesium. the agency oversees the distribution of alcoholic beverages. extremely low levels of such materials similar to those detected in natural fields were detected. the agency says that if high levels of radioactive materials are detected, it will send samples to a government-backed alcohol research institution, hiroshima, western japan, for detailed checks. brewing facilitying outside the radius will be randomly tested. rice and barley, the main ingredients of alcoholic beverages have already been tested for radiation. th

please raise a hand if you heard of the japanese city called hiroshima. thank you very much. please raise your hand if you're a part of the japanese city of kokura. a few. a few, but not nearly as many people with like to tell you something about this japanese city. it is very unremarkable, medium-size city, maybe about 750,000 people. it has a well-preserved, and before 500 year-old temple near the city center, but not all what is remarkable about it. it is pretty much like most medium-size cities elsewhere in japan and even we could say other medium-size cities elsewhere all-around world, except per one thing, one episode in history which makes it completely unique in all the history of the human race. on the morning of august 9th, 1945, for an american b-29s bomber called boxcar carrying the world's third atom bomb. the first was the does a tustin in mexico, the second was hiroshima and the third was in this plane. perot was the target. nagasaki was not the target. kokura was the target. the mission was bedeviled by problems of the outset. the south pacific with one other

please raise your hand if you've heard of hiroshima. good, thank you very much. please raise your hand if you've heard of a japanese city called cocur rah. a few. a few, but not nearly as many. i would like to tell you something about this japanese city of kokurra. it's very unremarkable. it is a medium-sized city, maybe about 750,000 people. it has a well preserved maybe 4 or 500-year-old temple near the city center but not a whole lot that is remarkable about it. it is pretty much like most medium-sized cities elsewhere in japan and even we could see other medium-sized cities elsewhere all around the world. except for one thing. one episode in its history which makes it completely unique in all the history of the human race. on the morning of august 9, 1945, an american b29 bomber called boxcar car i riing -- carrying the world's third atom bomb, the first was tested in new jersey, the second was in hiroshima, and the third was in this boxcar, kokurra was the target. nagasaki was not the target. kokurra was the target. the mission was was bedeviled by problems

the nuke is hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb dropped on hiroshima, general and.kers took out 300 pounds of high ?rifs and legislatively blew them up. >>> coming up income, details on a plan that could make gas price in maryland among the highest in the nation. >> first, we'll check in with tony for your full forecast when we come back. julie wright has your traffic for you. we'll talk about cooler weather though that is on the horizon. we're back in a moment. verizon 4g lte. america's fastest and most reliable 4g network in over 160 cities. verizon. built so you can rule the air. >>> more reports of sightings of the northern lights being spoted across the united states. this video is from michigan. people there saw the beautiful show from canada all the way down to arkansas actually. we got reports of the sightings monday night in charlestown, west virginia, damascus, maryland, and highland maryland up in howard county i keep forgetting to look. >> i wonder if we could see them anyway. you see all the lights we have in our area. >> you could still see them. >> yo

the 10,000-pound bomb was 600 times more powerful than the one dropped on hiroshima. >>> now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,706 after tumbling 207 points yesterday. the s&p dropped 25 points. the nasdaq sank 61. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei was down 13 points but in hong kong, the hang seng added 98. >>> pessimism swept wall street tuesday as doubts about a european debt solution along with weak data and corporate earnings sent stocks tumbles. for today's european finance summit, officials have vowed to announce a comprehensive solution for the region's debt crisis. but continued squabbling and tuesday's cancellation of a key meeting with finance ministers fueled fears euro leaders will once again come up empty. market was also dragged lower by october's consumer confidence unexpectedly plunging to its lowest level in 2 1/2 years. wall street's so-called fear index spiked 10%. adding to the negativity in earnings, 3m fell after missing profit expectations, blaming europe's debt crisis. u.s. stee

the first one on our staff meeting in hiroshima and i guess six thousand nine hundred forty five. and one hundred forty thousand people more or less were incinerated or dead by the end of one nine hundred forty five tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of others injured and people today still suffering from radiation related illnesses and unknown effects to subsequent generations and the second bomb was dropped by the united states and that the sacking on august ninth one thousand nine hundred forty five with similar catastrophic results. that world war two came to an end rather abruptly and instead instead of ending the manhattan project the united states government decided to make it permanent by creating an institution called the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico at the original home of the manhattan project but this whole relationship what i mentioned earlier should have never existed in the universities and tension in the book after world war two about nine hundred forty seven was to terminated by robert sprawl president of the university of california said i

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destroy underground bunkers, 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the japanese city of hiroshima at the end of the second world war. this is "gmt" from bbc world news. these are the headlines -- a angela merkel has told the german parliament that euro's leaders must act decisively when they meet today to find a solution to the debt crisis. turkey says it will accept foreign aid to help the deal with the aftermath of the earthquake. it had previously insisted it could call on its own. let's get a look at the business news. ben is here with me. we are talking about the eurozone crisis. too big to fail, too big possibly for the european countries alone to deal with anyway. >> eurozone leaders -- many eurozone leaders have plans about what they would like to do, the bailout funds and reducing or running down the debts, but the problem is, they don't have the money. where will that come from? some suggest it could be the emerging economies now that will deliver the money. looking outside the borders of the eurozone for this task. we heard today that the head of the bailout fund is to

let's apologize for dropping that bomb on hiroshima.for not having a land invasion to end world war ii that would have cost tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of american lives in japan and let's apologize for doing that, ending the war. guess who stopped it? >> a japanese official who said, look, we don't want any apology for that because actually, we sort of need to keep the nuclear threat alive because of the people -- the countries that are betwixed around us, speak of china and maybe north korea. those countrys that are a threat or could be to japan. according to wikileaks and this report, the japanese official is the one who contacted the white house and said let's not apologize for hiroshima. aut >>> you got to keep in mind, this is in september of 2009, that's when the diplomat sent the cable to hillary clinton to relay to the president. earlier in the spring, the president of the united states went to prague and talked all about how the world needs to rid itself of nuclear weapons and stuff like that. and the japane

the 10,000-pound bomb was 600 time more powerful than the one dropped on hiroshima. >>> now here's yourfirst look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,706 after tumbling 207 points yesterday. the s&p 500 dropped 25 points. the nasdaq sank 61. taking a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, nikkei was down 13 points. in hong kang, the hang seng added 98. >>> pessimism swept wall street yesterday as doubts about a european debt solution and weak data and corporate earnings send stocks tumbling. for today's european finance summit, officials vowed to announce a compressive solution for the region's debt crisis. but continued squabbling and tuesday's cancellation of a key meeting of finance ministers fueled fears. euro leaders will once again come up empty. >>> the market also dragged lower by october's consumer confidence. unexpectedly plunging to the lowest level in 2 1/2 years. wall street's so-called fear index spiked 10%. adding to the sudden negativity, in earnings, 3m fell after missing profit expectations blaming europe's debt crisis. u.s. steel s

scientists say it was 600 times more powerful than the bomb used on hiroshima in world war ii. bomb is being dismantled at a plant in amarillo, texas. this is same plant where other old nukes are being taken apart in line with the president's plan to disman he will nuclear weapons. it is considered dismantled explosives inside all 300 pounds of them separated from the nuclear material known as the pit. i learned that today. the pit. jenna: we all learned that. we'll talk about the that and the pit and everything else. joe is author of bomb scare. first question, joe, how dangerous is dismantling a weapon like this. >> very dangerous. this particular type of weapon. this is the last of the megadeath weapons, a huge bomb, nine meg today tons. -- megatons. it has more explosive power than all of the missiles fired from one of our nuclear submarines today. the problem with this bomb it didn't have many of the modern safety devices into it. the explosive around the pit, for example, could be detonated by a variety of ways. a spark, a lightning storm, a hit to the, to the bomb in a c

bipolar rule the explosions of the summit ten science was a clue into round two and how found in hiroshima the semi pollutants can nuclear weapons test site was the largest in the world to get an idea of just how vast it actually is it must be seen from the air. affecting an area of around three hundred thousand square kilometers roughly the size of germany. stretches out further than the eye can see in every direction each square kilometer bearing the radiological scars from decades of tests the radiation emitted scar more than just the landscape there was a huge increase in cases of cancer and serious birth defects amongst the local population the effects of these tests still being felt three generations after the first explosion while those people who live nearby who witnessed that first test in one nine hundred forty nine still remember the impact it had on the local population. sure but you look as i was going to the pool still a powerful stream. from me i was completely shaken and some of the others were not twelve or. in a nearby institute building we were really scared. that all of

the b53 was several hundred times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the japanese city of hiroshima at the end of the second world war. they built, in all, 340 of these so-called bunker bunkers. more news whenever you want it on our website. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. union bank. and shell. >> this is kim - about to feel one of his favorite sensations. at shell, were developing more efficient fuels in countries like malaysia that can help us get the most from our energy resources. lets use energy more efficiently. lets go. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> bbc world news was presented by kcet los angeles.

all the explosions seventy pilot instructor site was equivalent to around two and a half thousand hiroshima's the some people are nuclear weapons test sites was the largest in the world to get an idea of just how vast it actually is it must be seen from the air affecting an area of around three hundred thousand square kilometers roughly the size of germany. stretches out further than the eye can see in every direction each square kilometer bearing the radiological scars from decades of tests all those people who live nearby who witness not first test in one nine hundred forty nine still remember the impact it had on the local population. yeah sure as i was going to get tossed off use a powerful stream blasted right in front of me like white flight mean i was completely shaken and some of the others were not told or all windows were broken in a nearby institute building we were really scared the radiation emitted scarred more than just the landscape there was a huge increase in cases of cancer and serious birth defects amongst the local population the effects of these tests still being felt th

to see them you know pay us back for that or chip pan i mean we did we ended the war for them in hiroshima so if they could pay us back for that to reimbursement this or he would you support any reimbursements of those type. of. reimbursement for pizza but i think we need to do that now for bad foreign policy i can't comment on it myself because i have no. the idea what i'm talking about with form do you think san francisco should be part of the axis of evil i think it should be there are too many gay people there. and what i saw at the drag race i'm going to keep my mouth shut because she does look like some people. are afraid that's all the time we have for that question now i want to move on to mr cain you were a guest on the sunday morning talk show face the nation of bob schieffer the other morning and the topic of discussion was this controversial ad that you put out that included your campaign manager mark block smoking a cigarette and so here mr schieffer decided to question you and what message you think that sense it's take a listen. i don't know if since this signal that it's co

one of the chief intentions was the same as dropping the bomb on hiroshima. what was that? to say, listen. if you don't knock it off, there's more of this to come. >> this is one kid who got it in his head that he could play god. >> when mcveigh talks about the actual bombing, he's not almost bragging, he's boasting completely. but, you know, what the guy is talking about is mass murder on an incredible scale, including the murder of children. >> first of all, i believe there is no hell. but if i go further and say, even if there is, i don't think i'm going. >> can you imagine like, if lee harvey oswald had had the chance to spill his guts or john wilkes booth? i knew i had one of the most saddest and horrible stories that has ever been told in american journalism. >> i never had trouble admitting to my involvement in what i did, because i feel no shame for it. you see, with these tapes, i feel very free in talking. you've got this adrenaline pumping, but you force yourself to stay calm. i then pulled up to the light which was red at the time and let the fuse which was appr

so powerful, in fraact, it's 60 times stronger than the one that destroyed hiroshima. this is being dismantled. that is next. snoof if. >>> if it is interesting, it's happening right now. beginning with these images. you have to see this. this is a baby 2 weeks old. rescued in turkey two days after the earthquake hit. later they got the child's mother. in fact, that's her. that's her head. you can see they are about to load her on to an ambulance. also, they got the child's grandmother but the father is still missing. >>> police in china make an arrest in connection with this horrifying video of this little girl being run over. this man is being accused offal hitting this little girl. the incident caused a national outcry in china. more than two dozen people can be seen driving, walking, bicycling past this little girl and not offering to help her whatsoever. >>> today, hundreds of people gather for the funeral of the man who was the heir to the saudi heir. sultan bin abdulaziz was in his 80s and died of cancer. >>> quite the southern exposure. i love these pictures. t

remnants of this 800-year-old town chanting a requiem. ( chanting in japanese ) otsuchi reminds one of hiroshimaan be as vicious as an atomic bomb. 10% of the population was wiped out. it was a fatal lesson in the fragility of civilization. the earthquake alone was so powerful, it actually lowered the ground level of japan and moved the entire island eastward by eight feet. every day, high tide brings a flood. even months later, the survivors are still living in temporary housing. but everyone understands "temporary" can last a long time. this is otsuchi before the tsunami. and this is when otsuchi stopped-- 3:25 p.m., march 11, 2011. >> ken sasaki: this is my house. >> simon: that's your house? >> sasaki: yeah. >> simon: ken sasaki works for city hall in a city which has disappeared. how long had you been living here? >> sasaki: over 20 years. >> simon: now, when you came back here the first time after the tsunami, was there anything of yours left here? >> sasaki: nothing was left. >> simon: ken was in a meeting near the harbor when the earthquake struck. 30 minutes later, he heard an ominous n

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slated to deliver an explosion 600 times the explosion in hiroshima.was designed as the first bunker buster. it would land softly on the ground and explode with enough power to collapse shelters 750 feet under ground and like dr. strangelove's bomb it was on 24 hours a day in case of attack. dozens were still in u.s. active stockpiles for decades. even though, according to the "washington post" they were considered so dangerous that only dummies were used when crews practiced loading an unloading them on b-52s. as early as 1993 they were recommended they be retired as soon as possible saying it had no assured level of nuclear safety in a broad range of multiple abnormal environments. eek. there's only one place the united states has that is built to assemble and disassemble weapons and it is in amarillo, texas. thousands of warheads are slated to be dismantled. there half of the plant's work consists of updating our current nuclear arsenal. this is a moment of geek, it seems like a moment of eek. here's the geek it is so old and unsafe it took panteche

pounds and was the size of a mini-van and 600 times for powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima lights in the south u can see the aurora borealis. the amazing display of red and pink colors. it happened on sunday. you got a real treat down south. that's going to do it for me. thanks for your time. i will see you back here at 11:00 a.m. tweet here @thomasaroberts. stick around. protect about the same... but what if you have an accident? allstate accident forgiveness starts the day you sign up. these guys might make you wait a couple of years. we can't wait a couple years. [ babbles ] no you cannot. thanks. don't mention it. [ dennis ] shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll also get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natur

the previous caller asked -- from the hiroshima and nagasaki, life span studies. we are still following people 60 or 70 years later and the information we have is very, very valuable. to approach an incident like this where we approach our own nuclear planning, we take all of the epidemiological information and it goes into the algorithms will develop on who needs to be treated, who needs to be followed. host: do you know how many survivors of nagasaki and hiroshima are still around? guest: i don't know. they are in the thousands, though. host: he won the 2005 gold medal award from the american society of therapeutic radiation in an apology. florida, rick, your honor. caller: c-span, i just wanted to say this is the most wonderful format for everybody that can speak their mind to the country. it is a beautiful example of democracy. i have a bunch of stuff for you. you being a physician on the front lines of this topic that is usually not addressed, one of the things we really did not want to encounter. one, is the public view of the blast radius one of the criteri

for the state department, in august of mean 45, when they dpped nuclear weapons on nagasaki and hiroshima i want you to know two hinges, the world's troubles are your troubles an second there is nothing wrong with the world that a human being can't fix. >> so he is in a sense a role model for you. >> he is. when internationalism was not very popular, but, you know, people like thurgood marshall wento dartmouth 15 times to talk to the student, martin luther king was there and really tried to bring this outward looking perspective, and so i didn't know this,but this has been a part of the dna of dartmouth college for a long time. >> you were the first asian american to be the head of an ivy league college. >> yes, sir, and, you know, i didn't think much of it when the news came out, but boy in korea and even in japan and chinahey kind of went crazy, it was a source of gat pride, escially for korea, and, you know, there haven't been very many people of color, as we say, in these private jobs, you know, ruth simmons was at brown. >> rose: i saw her last night, in fact, she just retired as you