both hiroshima and nagasaki had some military value, not much however. keep in mind, american bombing in japan has been constant. it has been incessant. the firebombing of tokyo killed more people than pretty much each of the nuclear weapons did and those were conventional firebombs. but the united states had not brought all kinds of devastation on japanese citizens through the bombing campaign, but with a single device, an entire japanese city is wiped out. these weapons we are dropping are atomic bombs. they are fission-based detonation, which we will talk about in a second. they release exponentially significantly less than the weapons we use today, yet exponentially more than the biggest bomb we would have been able to drop in world war ii. in fact a 2000 bomb dropped by an american bomb yields 2000 pounds of explosive force. an atomic weapon is going to yield in kilotons of detonated force. what would a kiloton be? 1000 tons. you know metric already? yes, 1000 times. 13,000 tons of tnt in a single bomb. 21 kilotons on nagasaki from a single bomb. ma

hiroshima and nagasaki were never the primary targets. they were among a target package.whatever the case, the cold war is now kicking in and we have a weapon that does this and no one else has this. people have argued if we look at some influential propaganda films of the 1950's where we start to not talk so much about radiation and we show funny animations where people just wear some extra clothes and the radiation will bounce off of you. that seems hilarious in hindsight, but it is sort of dishonest in that we knew from the 1940's that radiation was sufficient to kill human beings and they were being exposed to massive amounts of radiation. that is how the bomb works. these ultimately are designed to do this. you are going to be killed, destroyed, annihilated, vaporized by massive heat, massive force, massive radiation. you don't get a choice. these are fission devices. these are what we would call today sort of crude -- we use this word all of the time. it is a "crude nuclear weapon." i would argue all nuclear weapons are crude. but these are based on something that i

. >>> emperor akihito and empress michiko visited hiroshima to meet people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by landslides in august. 74 people in the city's yagi district died in the disaster. the couple bowed their heads in prayer. the emperor and empress offered words of encouragement to residents who lost loved ones or who were injured. >> translator: their words encouraged me a lot. i was moved, and i felt happy. now, i can get on with my life. >> the emperor and empress thanked firefighters and others who helped in rescue and reconstruction efforts. the couple on thursday will pay their respects at hiroshima's atomic bombing memorial and meet elderly survivors. >>> about 300 passengers aboard a train in northern japan had a long delay in their journey. they were stranded after a blackout in the middle of a heavy snowstorm. power was los on a rapid service train wednesday morning on a line that links the cities of yamagata and sendai. the blackout occurred after a tree fell on an overhead cable. heavy snow has been falling in the area since tuesday. the passengers were trappe

like the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki? is that okay?t was not okay. >> i thought it was okay. i think that was the right decision. enhanced interrogation is the right decision. and believe it or not i support barack obama. he's right on the use of drones. >> if we're not going to preserve the long-range plan for america -- >> you say america -- but america dropped bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki. >> it's just incredulous, i think you and the -- would like to hand chai and arabic coffee, this is absurd. we are not a pacifist religion. we should defend the moral high grounds. what's happening is this report is being used by a partisan group, the democrats, in order to make points. and then if some violence happens as a result, they'll blame it on the conservatives. what is the biggest strategy? imam, we are at war. and islamic groups in america like ccair -- >> you raise a point. imam, let me go back to you. i think he raises a point here. that is this is all predicated on an attack that killed 3,000 americans. who attacked us? radical is

i hope the make the most of what i learned in hiroshima. >> on the tenth anniversary of the massive tsunami approaches, authorities have -- makeshift cities and measures as secure as possible. >>> some theet rs in the u.s. have started showing the controversial film, the interview. it's about a fictional plot to assassinate kim jong-un. at one theatrtheatre, more than people lined up. police cars were stationed around the building. sony pictures has initially canceled the release of the comedy after suffering a cyber attack allegedly by north korea. the decision fueled debate in the u.s. over freedom of expression. >> yes, i think they made a mistake. >> the company reversed its decision and released the film on thursday as some 300 mainly independent theatres. >> it wasn't a serious attack on anyone, i think it was just kind of a silly movie that was ultimately a lot of fun. >> i think it's important that we all share freedom of expression and creativity. it's not good to point a finger at just one person or one race. that was the problem i had with it. >> the number of theatres showing th

back towards the west extending back down towards hiroshima. just off the coastline, a port city, very high waves and collision between a cargo ship and fishing vessel. this is a far reaching storm. that we are still looking at, still very dangerous, but as we look ahead to friday, the snow should be tapering off. tokyo, you're not going to see anymore precipitation at least until the weekend. but that snow will make for some powdery conditions for skiers if you're heading out into saturday and sunday. let's talk about the temperatures though into northeastern china. minus 17 there for the high in harbin. your lows around minus 30. staying on the absolutely frigid side. now towards the americas, another low pressure area pushing onshore across california. you need the rain here, but in some areas, you're getting about 40 millimeters per hour. that's causing flooding. we have some video, this is coming out of the los angeles area into anaheim hills where the heavy rainfall blocked traffic here on a freeway on wednesday. hundreds of cars were stu

hiroshima bombing survivor says now is the time to create a legal framework to ban nuclear weapons. >> how much more, how much longer can we allow the nuclear weapon states to continue threat threatening all life on earth? >> an american representative says the most effective way to remove the threat of nuclear arms is through reenlisting and gradual disarmament. he says the u.s. is opposed to a ban. the delegates will hold a session for open discussions on tuesday. >>> south korean government leaders are facing a difficult decision involving a close ally. they've been hearing from their american up a missile defense system on their soil and they're finding there's plenty of opposition around the region. >> south koreans are patiently wait waiting the deloimt of a new missile defense system. the terminal high altitude is a system which intercepts ballistic missiles in midair using powerful laser. the radio systems is -- set to be over 1,000 kilometers, so it could -- northeastern china. what got them so fired up was a best-selling novel about a plan that involves china. thaad also war

the pope said that humankind has learned nothing from the atomic bombing of the japese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. the pope also suggested that prejudice against muslims is on the rise, as a result of terrorist acts carried out by radical islamist groups. he said many muslims have been hurt by these acts. he said that the teachings of islam's holy koran emphasize peace. he went on to say that discrimination would be lessened if people had a better understanding of the world's various faiths. >>> doctors and other medical workers marched in russia's capital to protest against health care reforms. the demonstrators say the government's overhaul will put thousands of people out of work. public rallies are unusual in russia. but organizers say more than 3,000 people took part in sunday's demonstration. russian leaders are overhauling health care, as they rein in fiscal spending. they're responding to western sanctions, and falling oil prices. the reforms are expected to lead to job losses for more than 7,000 doctors and in moscow alone more than 20 hospitals and clinics are likely to clo

. ♪ four years ago, he moved back to his parents' home in hiroshima and took a job at a nursing home.e felt encouraged by the support of the people around him. away from the intense pressure of the shoji battlefield, his winning rate has improved. >> translator: i'm not fighting alone. everyone is behind me. >> reporter: he wins again. and joins the professional world. >> translator: it's unbelievable! i'm really happy. [ applause ] >> translator: after decades of persevering, he finally did it. i really respect him. >> reporter: he says his journey isn't over. >> translator: i believe i can do whatever i want, as long as i don't limit myself. so i'll keep trying my best. >> reporter: he says he wants to make his mark as a professional player for all the people to believe in his dream. yuji osawa, nhk world. >>> people in the philippines are still contending with the tropical storm as flooding rains continue to fall in parts of the country. our meteorologist jonathan oh is here with the latest. jonathan? >> hello, gene. yes, we are continuing to monitor this system, as it slowly tries

this would be sfoent rebuild areas hit by the march 2011 earthquake and restore areas in hiroshima that suffered a big landslide. the government officials plan to compile the package on saturday next week. the people who run japan's top business lobby have a message for executives across the country. they want them to raise wages next spring to keep driving the cycle of economic growth. and they say the executives should consider increasing base pay as one option. officials at the japan business federation are writing guidelines for employers to use in upcoming wage negotiations. they've composed a draft that says the slum in consumption has dragged on longer than expected and the economy's at risk of sliding backwards into deflation. they say in their draft the government and private sector need to do everything possible to stop that from happening. they say businesses will do their best to boost pay as agreed by government, labor, and business leaders this week. and they urge exporters and other firms benefiting from the weaker yen to share their bigger profits with yorkers. they say

hiroshima was completely flat. not only did everybody get radiation poisoning, but the whole city was destroyed. not a sake has been kind of a canyon. almost if you are in los alamos are not sort of thing. so when they dropped the bomb, which was an alternate target coming back to the comment about d-day that the letter weather was so bad, there was another city that was supposed to be the target of the cloud cover was terrible. when they dropped the bomb, the radiation poison killed people. but it hardly damaged the city at all because the geography and geometry was the blast would didn't wipe out all of the oldest doric buildings. you can visit them. they are still there. unless he goes there, that is not the sort of thing you would really know. i found that to be fascinating and having to talk to people in japan. the people would have been so much greater. but they are now gradually realizing, okay, they could've spared the second bottom. >> an excellent opportunity much earlier in early march of 1945 good to be

walked to the marine recruiting office and over the neck few years he was involved at guam guam at hiroshimadad i love you. thank you. >> today's ceremony coincides a boy scout end cam many happening on this ship. scouts from virginia, delaware and new jersey and learning history. some of the soldiers were 17 years old a few years older than these saints. 10-year-old aiden will go home knowing the pearl harbor attack wasn't something in a history book. >> it was on sunday. and a lot of people died from it. i think it's really sad. >> reporter: boy scout motto is be prepared something america took to heart after the attack but francis elmer beach's hope there won't ever be a repeat. >> let's not do it again. >> reporter: in camden, brad satin, fox 29 news. >> a navy engineer is under arrest tonight for allegedly giving undercover agent information on how to sing an aircraft carrier. 35-year-old mustafa is charged with score takes of defense articles and technical data. the navy hired him to work at the norfolk naval shipyard. allegedly gave the undercover fbi agent drawings of the aircraft ca

if we had invaded, which all the generals wanted to do, guantanamo would have a synonym for hiroshima today. it would be a smoking, radiating rubble. there were 100-some odd tact cal nuclear weapons in cuba waiting for an invasion. that kennedy and khrushchev made a secret deal was not the public perception. the public perception was that testosterone won. we stood tough, they backed down. the same thing was being applied to hanoi. what is fascinating now that we can look through the historians' work, the inside historians' work, at the national security agen, robert hanyak who pursued the story, had access, went and did the basic fundamental work that intelligence analysts should have done at the time, which was to put all of the intercepts in one pile. and go through them. and see what did they say? where did they contradict each other? and especially where did they contradict this highly selective chronology that have become the internal secret official story? then that historian wrote a highly classified article, because it is full of intercepted signals, intelligence that showed

terrible atrocities but the argument then moral equivalency yeah but we dropped the atom bomb on hiro hiroshima. this is a similar sort of thing. >> former harvard law professor alan dershowitz agrees in the wake of 9/11 everyone wanted torture used. >> right. >> there are a couple things, number one is whether it worked. two is who knew about this. >> yeah. >> three is that everyone who is supporting it now is spaying that a legal memo of the justice department okayed it. and i'm not sure why we have a couple lawyers at the justice department making the decision for the nation. i sort of want the president and in a debate in congress that's where the discussion lies now. >> isn't it interesting that we wait until al qaeda is on the run and the terror threat has been minimized. it's been 13 years before all sawfden everyone wakes up to the problem where were they in 2004. >> i mean, i didn't know about it then. >> i think most of us who followed it closely knew that some form of intense interrogation was going on. i think it was fairly common knowledge. certainly in the military for sure in the

we're not analyzing chairman wendy bomb hiroshima a decrease in the three analytics or save 100,000 american lives because they did the right thing? neil: you what republicans to be strong. >> the country is begging for leadership i like walker and harry and careers. neil: outside the mainstream to dimension jeb bush? >> i could deal with that he will never sell me on crisscross the. key is we can very insecure. neil: you're not going after the fact? [laughter] >> no. neil: i thank you were. you never liked him. >> i thought he was all about himself. you can tell those that are narcissistic. they put themselves out there and the staff and telling them how awkward he looks when he calls out the guy in the audience. neil: if you do that with a farmer? you will get a pitchfork always good to see you making his fortune in the buffalo area. that says something. has shoveling snow. [laughter] >> we were stuck three days by wife was stranded at her cousin's house and i was stranded with my dog from monday through thursday. neil: that for the office does not sound like bad bad idea. but now in the m

magnitude of 9, this is the third largest earthquake ever recorded, the estimate of 23 thousand hiroshimabombs. u.s. geological survey shows how the tsunami rose up, hitting coastal areas in indonesia and thailand then traveling thousands of miles over the indian ocean. ache province in indonesia, number of people killed here is estimated to be over 160,000, half a million displaced. the coast of thailand, 8,000 died, 7,000 were displaced. two and a half hours later, the tsunami hit sri lanka. half a million glaised. displaced. in india, 640,000 lost their homes. the tsunami would also cause loss of life and damage in ten other indian ocean countries. the total number of people killed over 220,000. making this the single worst tsunami in recorded history. >> in manda ache, the survivors spent the day honoring those. step va vasson has the story. >> she lost two children and her mother. >> translator: our thoughts about our families stay with us forever. i was head of the school then and of our 300 students, only 70 survived. >> reporter: in sri lanka the memorial starts in a train, symbol

some estimates suggest it had the power of 2 23 hiroshima type bombs. it traveled thousands of kilometers across the indian ocean. one of the closest places to the earthquake was indonesia with waves 10 meters high crashing on the shoreline. a number of people killed here is estimated at 160,000, 500,000 displaced. in thailand, 8,000 died, 7,000 displaced. in sri lanka, 35,000 died. 500,000 displaced. the tsunami would also cause loss of life and damage in ten other indian ocean countries. the total number of people killed over 220,000. making this the single worst tsunami in recorded history. >> in malaysia the tsunami anniversary coincided with a different kind of disaster. we're talking about flooding here where thousands have been forced from their homes. the floods are blamed for at least five deaths and the malaysian government has evacuated thousands of people from the area. they say its relief efforts continue to be hampered by the weather. coming up, a memorial for a slain new york city police officer. amid the tension following a series of pol

it's about 20 times the explosive energy of the he hiroshima and nagasaki bombs of world war ii. >> the moment the shock wave hits is captured. >> there's a moment when the window on the far side of that actually shatters and the curtains blow into the actual classroom. and the kids start running away. >> the bang blew out windows across the entire city, thousands and thousands of windows were smashed. >> the meet otherdisintegrates during the explosion sending tons of debris up into the atmosphere. but small pieces of the space rock make it to earth. >> they entered the snow and caused little snow tubes. and the picture fz ths of them fascinating. >> eight months after the blast, divers recover a large rock from a lake about 60 miles outside the city. it's believed to be a chunk of the meteor and weighs more than 1,200 pounds. a meteor collision with the atmosphere of this magnitude happens once in a lifetime. all the more remarkable that this one is caught on so many cameras. >> the fact that there were so many videos taken of this rock as it entered and people were, for other reasons

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. >> we bombed hiroshima, we bombed nagasaki, and we bombed the thousands in new york and the pentagonnd we never batted an eye. the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. america's chickens coming home to roost. no, no, no, not god bless america. god damn america. that's in the bible. you're killing innocent people. god damn america for -- treating us citizens as less than humans. >> reverend jeremiah wright. president obama sat in the pews of his church for over 20 years, but in order to get elected, he had to throw him under the bus. >> we heard my former pastor, jeremiah wright, use incendiary language to express the views that have the potential to not only widen the racial divide but views that denigrate the goodness of our nation. >> now a new radical alliance is formed. enter msnbc host the reverend al sharpton. he's been to the white house a whopping 83 times. who else has that kind of access to the commander in chief? that's not all. yesterday reverend al was at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, invited by none other than president obama to me

know your enemy japan" that was deemed so brutal and so incendiary when it arrived in japan after hiroshimaaki, macarthur refused to show the movie. rev' -- we've already made about the point. we don't need to do it in a movie. >> mark harris, while we're talking about frank capra, i want to ask you about "private snafu." 26 cartoons, we should point out, not designed for children. what's the story behind it? >> right. they weren't designed for children and not designed for adults either. these were adult-only cartoons that were meant to be shown to servicemen. and they were technically instructional films. in private snafu who is this kind of screw-up private, as you'll see he looks a lot like elmer fudd, because he derives from early drawings of elmer fudd. he was meant to give soldiers instructions on everything from the danger of consorting with prostitutes in foreign countries to how to protect yourself against malaria, to the importance of not gossiping or passing along secrets. and usually these five minute movies, many of which were also by the way written by the theodore geisel, an

it saw the dropping of the topic -- atomic bomb in hiroshima and nagasaki. the united states occupation of japan. korea's independence and also it's a division. the nationals china's decision to recognize mongolia as an independent country, a country of note that mixture also celebrates 25 years of democracy. navigating all of these anniversaries, working through the use remembrances, this is going to require restraint and require good judgment, require political and diplomatic skill. and, frankly, i welcome your advice and your counsel in this conference on not just how to handle the anniversaries, but how to build on them as well. because the record of the past 70 years in northeast asia has been one of extraordinary progress. as i've said before, progress in 2015, particularly in the relationship between tokyo and seoul, and the relationship between tokyo and beijing, in turn what our historical millstones into historical milestones. this is not a theoretical proposition. china, south korea, japan are major players in the region security and economy. also

it saw the dropping of the atomic bomb in hiroshima and nagasaki. the united states' occupation of japan. korea's independence and also its division. nationalist china's decision to recognize mongolia as an independent country, a country that next year also celebrates 25 years of democracy. navigating all these anniversaries, working through these remembrances, this is beginning to require restraint. it's beginning to require good judgment. it's going to require political and diplomatic skill. and frankly, i welcome your advice and your counsel from this conference on not just how to handle the anniversaries, but how to build on them as well. because the record of the past 70 years in northeast asia has been one of extraordinary progress. and as i've said before, progress in 2015, particularly in the relationship between tokyo and seoul, and the relationship between tokyo and beijing, in turn, historical millstones into historical milestones. china, south korea, japan are major players in the region's security and economy. all three are increasingly

that is why i traveled this year to the marshall islands, to hiroshima, and two times two utah to talk with those who have suffered at the use of nuclear weapons, radiation contamination, and economic problems as well. that is why the united states sent a delegation last week to the vienna conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons use. the united states understands that nuclear weapons are not a theoretical tool, they are real and any use of nuclear weapons would exact a terrible toll. no one in this country, or any country, should ever forget that. thank you very much for your attention. i look forward to our discussion period. thank you. [applause] >> first of all, thank you for the overview. let me take the moderator's approach with a couple of questions and open it to the audience. we have about an hour to grill you. the first question would be general. when you're looking at the overall u.s.-russia relationship, there has been this crisis over ukraine that has been a big shadow. you did mention despite that, the russians have worked in a corporate away in terms of i

united states army, second lieutenant john dingell was preparing to invade japan when the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki brought the war to an end and quite possibly saving his life. we're all grateful for that, that providence spared him so he could come to the people's house and do the people's work for 59 years. we will miss him dearly. i will miss him, but i take comfort in knowing that he will still be here among us as a private citizen, as the husband of a new member from michigan's 12th district and as an elder statesman for our country who i hope will always be ready to share the wisdom of his experience with those who will continue his work in this house. john dingell has been a great american, a citizen who loved his country and served it well. god bless you, john dingell, and thank you. mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i yield one minute now to the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, it's an understatement to say dean and chairman john dingell is a gentleman of this house and a respected man of the law. he's served our republic his entire life, beginning as a pag

united states army, second lieutenant john dingell was preparing to invade japan when the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki brought the war to an end and quite possibly saving his life. we're all grateful for that, that providence spared him so he could come to the people's house and do the people's work for 59 years. we will miss him dearly. i will miss him, but i take comfort in knowing that he will still be here among us as a private citizen, as the husband of a new member from michigan's 12th district and as an elder statesman for our country who i hope will always be ready to share the wisdom of his experience with those who will continue his work in this house. john dingell has been a great american, a citizen who loved his country and served it well. god bless you, john dingell, and thank you. mr. pallone: mr. speaker, i yield one minute now to the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, it's an understatement to say dean and chairman john dingell is a gentleman of this house and a respected man of the law. he's served our republic his entire life, beginning as a pag