the author of hiroshima and the global origins of memory. thank you for joining us on c-span's american history tv. >> thank you for having me. >> you look at the two significant impacts upward or two, the holocaust and its impact on jews around the world and of course the bombings and reshma and nagasaki which ended the war in 1945. has your research shown? my research now is on the psychiatric reaction, direction of the psychiatric establishment and that dealt with communities of survivors both in hiroshima and nagasaki and in the case of the holocaust. my first book on hiroshima talks about memory culture, the politics of memory that surround those two places and my first look at one chapter of that a psychiatrist who came to hiroshima and worked with hiroshima survivors and laser -- later also connected to people with holocaust survivors. my current research takes this chapter and expands it into a book project that we should look -- both the pre-and post-history of this, both how people dealt with psychiatric establishment, psychologist

the story of her of a young woman who's lost her family in the 2011 tsunami she had heights from hiroshima where she lives with her aunt to her former home in the north a cross-country journey through japan. pyros played by serena mottola who's well known to audiences in japan as an actress and model she says this film posed a special challenge. with this in the end there was no script we had to improvise that so i tried to adapt myself to each location and situation and what does it smell like there what people am i meeting those what objects are there i worked it all out through empathy couldn't see when they. did in the. the film deals with grief and the feeling of being left alone but how are you also has beautiful experiences on her journey. she meets a kurdish family who invite her to eat with their migrants some living in japan with no settled status becomes friends with their daughter who's her age. their connection helps her get out of her depression voices in the wind deals with japanese national traumas the atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the tsunami and resulting

new mexico desert and then in hiroshima and again at nagasaki came the world-shaking explosions of thearmies had been defeated wherever matt, her navy destroyed, japan asked for peace. aboard the uss missouri in tokyo bay, on september 2, 19 45, the most horrible war in history came to its complete end. the foreign minister signed for japan. ♪ douglas macarthur, supreme commander. a general sign for china. but the world could not forget or excuse the savage crimes of those who had opened that war, who deliberately and willfully brought death and suffering to millions. the innocent, tortured civilians of manila, for example. for these atrocities, japanese leaders would be held responsible and stand trial. the japanese commander in the philippines has already been sentenced to death. tojo, japanese war premier, faced a trial as the war ended. his suicide attempt would not prevent the carrying out of justice. behind bars were others. shimota, a general, and the black dragon terrorist. the earth, the record the world had seen of german death camps would not be forgotten either. nazi offici

her depression voices in the wind deals with japanese national trauma the atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster in fukushima director noble hero sue us sees a political dimension in keeping alive these memories of catastrophe and then when . it's barely reported on in the media especially now leading up to the olympic games this year people would rather forget all of it so that's an attitude you find throughout japanese society. but. this is a quiet deeply moving film and it shows a very special way of dealing with grief. haru takes in the ruins of her former home and then a boy tells her about something called the when telephone. books you got. to see on your lots and i looked and i could i'm. going to. kind of. the scene is based on a real phone booth in japan that's become a place of pilgrimage for the grieving. think. more on that and everything about the balance on a very special edition of art's 21 this weekend on d.w. back now to scott a 1st full stop you see all the movies in the competition so it's the moment of reckoning which wr

brian: what was it like get to go hiroshima?es, united airlines from guam to hiroshima where the plane full of historians, journalists, family members and veterans who go and they allow you to be on the island for 6 hours one day a year during the anniversary of the battle which is when we went last year for anniversary and it was incredible. i felt like i couldn't have written the book unless i had been there and hiked up, you see them, it's like the moon, i mean, it's an 8-mile square island, very small, the terraces are hard to climb up even when you don't have a pack on your back or rifle and no one is shooting at you it's still hard up to climb up, it gave me a real sense of what it was like for young men on the island. ainsley: what did your son say? what did harry say? >> you know, i think it's a special connection for him and for all of them and i'm glad that the book is written and they can pass it down to their children and grandchildren so that they can learn more about the story. i learned more about the family in wr

the author of hiroshima and the global origins of memory. thank you for joining us on c-span's american history tv. >> thank you for having me. >> you look at the two significant impacts upward or two, the holocaust and its impact on jews around the world and of course the bombings and reshma and nagasaki

say no to the spending of the adam and all of the consequences of it since 1945 when i heard about hiroshima on the radio. i am a member of the shut it down affinity group a group of women that came together to shut down for me with our batteries and action. it's that hot yes. we meet once a month we have a pot luck here my house and wave figure out what we're going to do and then we do it. for my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no prayer power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing and maybe all of new england uninhabitable for generations. and he started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the nuclear regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run instead 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and cyril was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the oversight panel that's looked into a vermont yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if he cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying reminding he coul

dropped on hiroshima. the deployment is facing criticism at home and abroad. the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, called the news "an alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war." on capitol hill, house armed services committee chairman adam smith said -- "this destabilizing deployment further increases the potential for miscalculation during a crisis." smith also criticized the pentagon for its inability and unwillingness to answer congressional questions about the weapon over the past few months. meanwhile, russian deputy foreign minister sergei ryabkov responded by saying -- "this reflects the fact that the united states is actually lowering the nuclear threshold and that they are conceding the possibility of them waging a limited nuclear war and winning this war. this is extremely alarming." we are joined now william arkin, longtime reporter who focuses on military and nuclear policy. he broke the storyry about the deployment of the new low-yield nuclear weapon in an article he cowrote for the federation of american scient

. >>> and now, we are hearing of a trip to hiroshima. and the visit is in part to demonstrate the commitment to nuclear disarmament, and he says he will attend the peace memorial ceremony on august 6th, and the first sitting u.n. chief to attend the event since the predecessor did a decade ago. more news for you after the break. tom: my mom always told me actions speak louder than words. she was a school teacher. my dad joined the navy and helped prosecute the nazis in nuremberg. their values are why i walked away from my business, took the giving pledge to give my money to good causes, and why i spent the last ten years fighting corporate insiders who put profits over people. i'm tom steyer, and i approve this message. because, right now, america needs more than words. we need action. >>> a sighting in san francisco, "matrix 4" is filming in the financial district and our reporters spotted keanu reeves. and the new code name "project ice cream" is going to be filming through march. right there. >> okay. also new for you this morning, th

americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshimaheart went bang, bang, bang! the constitutional rights of these marchers are their rights as citizens of the united states, and they should be protected even in the right to test them out, so that they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy — i know you don't want to say too much about it — but does it worry you that it's going to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yes, but i hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the world health organization has raised its assessment of the coronavirus threat to the highest level. there was a frantic day on the markets. they've been hit with their worst week since the financial crisis. mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff, says the media is stoking a virus panic to bring down president trump. here's drjeanine kraybill, an expert in political science from california state university. donald trump is concerned by

war the devastation of 4 it focuses on 2 things the nazi holocaust and also the atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki in japan by the u.s. military it really shows a lot of these images some of the images that you have probably already seen from the holocaust and it's overlaid with french poetry to voices that are talking about evil a very hard film to get through i might say and it's by cambodian director richie pun who himself was born in cambodia and had to flee flee the camaro rouge and go to paris and became a filmmaker there so a very political film to start off the day with and the the other film is just as political and also just as personal it's in a rainy and film there is no evil from mohamed. and this film it's interesting because just also how it was made. has been banned from filmmaking in iran he's actually been given a one year prison sentence for suppose a crimes against the state so he had to make this film entirely in secret and he did it by making this for short films and then combine them into one into one movie and submitting all his applications to the state in sec

race you have to remember that about 1985 they were ahead accumulated the equivalent of 1500000 hiroshima bombs 1500000 and there were about 7 close 270000 nuclear weapons in all. right now we're down to about 14020 percent of what we used to have which is still insane and certainly more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter and pretty much all life on the planet but because we even know that the latest studies show that a limited nuclear war between india and pakistan reach 100 here is shamus as nuclear weapons were used could kill up to 2000000000 people so in 5000000 tonnes it's broken to the atmosphere straw agriculture minister so we're not playing with toys here we're talking about some new measures. actual threat you know of out of time you know what times we live in let's treaties that can be followed for the sake of humanity peter because that professor of history and director of the nuclear studies is a shoot at american university. that's it for now back in 30 minutes time with the latest join us again. we're still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk an

focuses on 2 specifically the holocaust of world war 2 and also the american bombing atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki that ended that war and looks at these images of evil and it's kind of hard to get through i think it was maybe a little bit too much of the same images over and over again there's one line in the film where it's narrated by a kind of french poetry and there's one line about criticizing the images of war as being a spectacle and i thought to myself that's kind of what we're watching now a kind of spectacle of destruction yeah i think actually to go further i thought it was more genocidal porn i really thought it was kind of upsetting the way this film . made light of actually in my mind the the actual atrocities it was betraying quite different in tone is the 2nd film that screened today there is no evil by iranian filmmaker mohammad. and this film is quite interesting not just for a subject matter which is about the death penalty in iran and how the regime executes dissidents but also because how it was made because of the director is banned from making films on iran's w

americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshimalier, and so my heart went bang, bang, bang! the constitutional rights of these marchers are their rights as citizens of the united states, and they should be protected even in the right to test them out, so that they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy — i know you don't want to say too much about it — but does it worry you that it's going to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yes, but i hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. this is bbc news, our top story: the world health organisation has raised its assessment of the coronavirus threat to the highest level. us financial markets continued to fall dramatically on friday, following sharp declines on european and asian markets. investors are expecting the central banks to cut the cost of borrowing in the us, japan and other major economies. more from our business correspondent samira hussain. us financial market were battered in a way not seen since

dropped on hiroshima japan in 1945 was just 16 tons yet it still devastated the city wiping out 90 percent of its population and killing more than 80000 people instantly and it has gone on to harm the health of countless others from radiation exposure but while the obama administration promoted the reduction of nuclear weapons the trumpet administration set aside $48500000.00 to develop what they call less destructive nuclear warheads in 20 scene the pentagon's top policy chief insisted that the new weapon will keep americans safe because it will deter other nations like russia from launching limited nuclear attacks the pentagon's top policy official insisted that the supplemental capability strengthens returns and provides the united states a prompt more survivable low yield strategic weapon while moscow has repeatedly said it does not want nuclear war and has offered to renew the last remaining new. agreement it has with washington the u.s. has insisted that it remains on guard and ready to respond to any possible nuclear attacks but critics are warning of the long term consequences noti

post-war political power and it is in my opinion the reason behind the attacks on dresden and later hiroshima. the people of dresden were completely unaware of the strategic political considerations when the 1st air raid sirens went off at 915 that night most thought that the attack would talk at an industrial center in the air by as it happened so often in recent months. she hums in its crest and had so far been fairly untouched by the war from the seashore there were major bombing raids on leipsic but that didn't really raise fears among the people here near the field there were rumors circulating that churchill had an aunt living in reston so it would never be attacked do you know and you have need of us plus year old girl wouldn't. for me have of it in early january or so the woman who owned our apartment house had a new staircase put in and that's something that maoists for ration lassen the old sandstone steps were torn out and replaced with tara. and a few weeks later it was destroyed. it. credible couple that. christophe adam was 14 years old in february 945 he and his family lived in

about this exhibit features the work of hiroshima ishiguro who specializes in creating humanoid robots. ishiguro is the director of the intelligent robotics laboratory at osaka university. he studies the interaction between people and robots to help him develop his theories on human nature intelligence and behavior. we traveled from tokyo to osaka to interview him she grew up. we want to ask him what makes humans different from robots. funny hello i'm a russian it's a gorilla from osaka university. hello i mean she grows on robot h. i want. this going to mine which vision is to understand what you might use so that is the most important in which a vision for me for creating the a very human like rob what we are kind of. more regular machines that is a human right the machine is a machine the difference is the material so i think. you know if we develop want a chronology is so bonded it between a human the roberts is going to be disappeared. so that is my guess. is also the co-founder of the robot theatre project in which androids share the stage with human actors. these scenes are from

to bedford springs hotel in pennsylvania where they were when the bombs dropped on nagasaki and hiroshima, and they were returned later that fall back to japan. >> if i remember it was an oss female member who pretended to have an affair with a -- that's the story that's why i remember it. >> okay. see, i want people to get the book for that. [laughing] >> the woman that she's talk about her codename was cynthia. she was an american who is married a british diplomat but the marriage ended and she befriended an envoy, a press envoy at the vichy french embassy, and they began an affair and one night, ask her to come three nights before they were finally able to get in and crack the sake and get the military secrets that they wanted within. she and the man that she had the affair with went on to get married and moved back to france right after the war and land in a beautiful chÂteau for 20 20 e years until she passed away. >> harvey, can you talk about the actual transfer of the repatriation? you said lisbon and mozambique. how did they get there and white of the american diplomats have anyt

finally play that video for the first time, it may as well be watching the nuclear bomb go off in hiroshimaur guts are wrenching. the courtroom was silent. there's people crying by the end of that video. >> prosecutors also produced a set of tire tracks found near butch casey's burned-out mercedes. the tracks were left by a getaway car which the state said matched seth penalver's oldsmobile. >> you know, it was damning [q!] evidence, and it was evidence that on top of everything else, it probably hurt us. >> finally, the prosecution called their witnesses against seth, including kimberly san, one of seth's former roommates. >> kim is saying she and seth were living together at a house in sunrise, florida. she said seth had come to the house with pablo ibar, a black mercedes, came in, had blood all over his clothes. he and pablo took their clothes off, washed them in the washing machine. red bubbles had come out of the washing machine. >> and she said she saw him with ibar changing clothes, taking a shower and driving off in the mercedes. >> kim is saying, "i come home. i see bloody bubbles

remember, truman dropped the bomb on hiroshima, nagasaki, and said he didn't lose any sleep over it.lso had a third bomb and refused to drop it because he didn't want to kill more women and children. five years later, when we were losing the war in korea, douglas macarthur said, i want the right to drop 25 to 40 bombs on chinese cities. and truman said no. and he said no because of moral concerns. now, imagine that he had decided yes, and nuclear weapons became normal weapons. the world would look very different today. that's a case where morals mattered. >> in many cases, there were presidents who were sort of trying to navigate between doing what they thought was the strategically important thing but still worried about morality, right? >> that's right. it's rare that you could have a decision which is purely moral or sometimes presidents will try to think of something which is in between, which is where most of the things are. henry kissinger once said the hardest choices are really those which are between 51 and 49. if it were clearly back and white, either/or, it might be easier

he had service in the navy a new watched his marines raise the flag at hiroshima. >> never give up. keep at it and enjoy your life, doing things in an active way. it has been a good life. >> it looks great for 100. after the military, he had a successful career in the oil and gas industry. coming up, looking at rehab work as the warriors shooting guard continues his recovery from a major knee injury. >>> in overtime thriller as women look to rebound for their loss in tucson and some familiar faces on the giant make their spring day view. we will show you what they were up to against the rockies last night. that is coming up. woman: the deadly corona virus officially hitting the us. man: the markets are plunging for a second straight day. vo: health experts warn the us is underprepared. managing a crisis is what mike bloomberg does. in the aftermath of 9-11, he steadied and rebuilt america's largest city. oversaw emergency response to natural disasters. upgraded hospital preparedness to manage health crises. and he's funding cutting edge research to contain epidemics. tested. ready.

some examples are death and cancer from nuclear bombs exploding in hiroshima, growth defects born to babies who were given x-rays when pregnant, the high rate of cancer in nuclear plant workers, the death from the nuclear explosion in cher nobodily. radiation causes genetic mutations, defects and cancers. radiation is dangerous to life, especially to children and pregnant women who are much more sensitive to radiation damage. since 1980, the incidence of cancer in children has been increasing at 3 percent every year in the united states. the center for disease control, cdc, documents a steady rise in childhood leukemia and brain cancer from 1999 through 2010. our children do not need more radiation in their environments. the bulletin of the atomic scientist reported that in 2014, ronald, chief of the state public health department's emergency restoration of waste management section, has escalated his agency's campaign to make the navy come clean about its radioactive past. quote, there has been no credible effort made to gather evidence to determine whether those radioactive material

the democratic party officials appear ready, essentially, to risk intraparty damage -- >> hiroshima.ld call it. >> to stop bernie sanders getting the nomination. >> yep. >> super delegates coming. in how serious is this? >> well, look, it's hard to know. most of these people are not being quoted on the record. >> they're also saying, look, these are the rules, and it's rules that sanders wanted and -- >> well, listen, here is the deal. there is the rules and there is the norms. the rules are that on the first ballot, if you don't get the majority, there is something called the second ballot. the second ballot, other people get a chance to vote. what has usually happened is if you're close, you know, hillary was close in 2016. and then bernie gave her the delegates to get her across the finish line. you didn't go into a brokered convention. i think obama was a similar situation and hillary helped him. the norms are if you're close, then everybody gets you across the finish line. what's going to be interesting is yes, bernie did agree to these new rules, but there is a new set of norms

dropped on hiroshima. this comes as the trump administration is slated to announce today it is loosening restrictions the use of landmines in order to roll back an obama-era policy that restricted the use of landmines to the korean peninsula. the new policy is expected to allow the u.s. to use landmines anywhere in the world. this could make the united states one of only a few countries, including burma, syria, and north korea, that would continue to use landmines despite an international treaty banning their use. human rights groups are condemning the mexican government for its crackdown against central l americans who travel through mexico en route to seek asylum in the united states. mexico has deported over 2000 central americans over the last two weeks and has temporarily suspended all ngo's and faith organizations from accessing detention centers. this is tania reneaum of amnesty international. >> we are talking about the signals that are given that give clear indicators of a micra policy that does n

the democratic party officials appear ready, essentially, to risk intra-party image -- hiroshima.n't know what you would call it. to stop bernie sanders from getting the nomination. super delegates coming in. >> yes. >> how serious is this? >> it's hard to know. most of these people are not being quoted on the record. >> they are also saying, look, these are the rules. and it's rules that sanders wanted and -- >> sure, listen. here's the deal. there's the rules and there's the norms. the rules are that on the first ballot if you don't get the majority, there is something called the second ballot and the second ballot other people get a chance to vote. but what has usually happened is if you're closs, you know, hillary was close in 2016 and then bernie gave her the delegates to get across the finish line. he didn't go into a brokered convention. obama was in the same thing. hillary helped him. if the norms are close, everybody gets across the finish line. bernie did agree to these new rules, but there is a new set of norms that may show up that may make this convention very interes

the morning of august 6, loan b-29 bomber dropped the first bomb unannounced in the port city of hiroshima major naval and war industrial center. a few words in closing and then i welcome your questions and discussion, come back to lincoln again and one always does this, it was lincoln who articulated in his first inaugural address the hope that what he called the mystic courts of memory would yet swell a course of union at a time when the prospects for the union staying together were diminishing by the minute. he was appealing in a moment of great national crisis to the great american story nominations grateful memory of the generation of 76 of the revolutionary patriots who created the nation and all those others who were sacrificed so much to make the nation's grand experiment in democracy into a success. as we know, lincoln's great speech did not succeed in preventing a war in his time. that does not mean his prescription was a wrong one for other times including our own. we too live in a fractious period of disunity full of disturbing portends and one in which there was loose and some

me from your book, saying that the city stands now as a totem to the obscenity of total war, like hiroshimaan enthusiastic adopter of the foulest national socialist politics added lots of extraordinary moral difficulty. why do you then say that, as we consider that moral question, that this wasn't a war crime? it's a point that has been debated a lot over the years. crime? it's a point that has been debated a lot over the yearsm crime? it's a point that has been debated a lot over the years. if you look at the bombing of 25,000 civilians, many of them rural refugees fleeing from the onward march of the red army, how is it remotely possible to justify that? first of all, it is unquestionably an atrocity, there is no question. but the term war crime is a legal term, not a moral but the term war crime is a legal term, nota moral one, and but the term war crime is a legal term, not a moral one, and second of all there is a level of discomfort that comes with out in that sense, because you then have to look at the entire allied campaign and other bombed cities, hamburg, cologne, all bombed citie

steve: that's martha maccallum here with the preview of minutes to hiroshima casey mcdonald. >> thankook coming out next week unknown valor and then she also has a special on the channel this weekend this sunday unknown valor which is really moving. just yesterday was a 75th anniversary of u.s. troops storming iwo jima. and her uncle was a part of that. steve: martha's? >> martha's uncle was part of that he died at iwo jima. this is a story of closure of her meeting. so men who fought beside him and finding out what happened. and it's really emotional piece. she goes back. but from that special, we have got a bonus feature on fox nation. and that's available right now. it talks about the manhattan project, that project that was named for the burrow that we are in but, yes, it took place primarily in new mexico where they did the research and planned out these atomic bombs that thank god were only used twice in that effort as you mentioned ainsley in world war ii. 2 billion-dollar project. we do have a clip. let's take a look at that. >> finally it was ready for japan where the 2 billi

yes, so it wasn't until the dropping of the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 that the warth nazi germany, if that had rumbled on, they could have won the tech war, they could have rumbled on, and it could have been a very different situation. a lot of work to be done, even after the summer, even after vj day, work to be done, even after the summer, even aftervj day, in reconstructing europe and world peace. we can expect to see prominent members of the royal family mark this event in 75 days' time. what we re this event in 75 days' time. what were they doing? we have the queen, what was she doing on ve day? oh, she is marvellous. a real kind of loyal to this country and she's you know, contributed so much, hasn't she? but on ve day, i don't know if you was aware, she she? but on ve day, i don't know if you was aware, she and her sister, princess margaret, she was then princess margaret, she was then princess elizabeth, of course, they then sneaked into the crowds anonymously tojoin then sneaked into the crowds anonymously to join in with the celebrations. i didn't know tha

some examples are death and cancer from nuclear bombs exploding in hiroshima, growth defects born to x-rays when pregnant, the high rate of cancer in nuclear plant workers, the death from the nuclear explosion in cher nobodily. radiation causes genetic mutations, defects and cancers. radiation is dangerous to life, especially to children and pregnant women who are much more sensitive to radiation damage. since 1980, the incidence of cancer in children has been increasing at 3 percent every year in the united states. the center for disease control, cdc, documents a steady rise in childhood leukemia and brain cancer from 1999 through 2010. our children do not need more radiation in their environments. the bulletin of the atomic scientist reported that in 2014, ronald, chief of the state public health department's emergency restoration of waste management section, has escalated his agency's campaign to make the navy come clean about its radioactive past. quote, there has been no credible effort made to gather evidence to determine whether those radioactive materials were present or not.

earth's oceans warm at the rate of multiple hiroshima explosions worth of heat per second -- per second. they acidify at the fastest rate in at least 50 million years. they're also fouled with our plastic garbage and polluted by runoff from farming appeared storm water. our oceans' warnings are loud and clear and measurable. they are chronicled by fishermen and sailors and measured with thermometers, tide gauges, and simple ph tests that measure acidification. and it's this acidification that takes me to these two species. the oceans are absorbing around 30% of our excess carbon dioxide emissions, and they do that in a chemical interaction that takes up the co2 but acidifies the sea water. and don't pretend that there's any dispute about this. acidification is a chemical phenomenon. you can demonstrate it in a middle school science lab. you can demonstrate it with your breath, an aquarium bubbler, a glass of water, and a ph strip. in fact, i have done so right at this desk. here's the first species, the tiny pteropod. it is about the size of a small pea. it is known as the sea butterfly