this hiroshima, this is the hospital the red cross hospital in hiroshima. and of course as a human the horrific human cost of the bomb. we have a lot of evidence like this. there is a number of these kind of photographs, radiation burns, it's another example of radiation burns will talk a little bit more later. and we go to nagasaki. this is a fascinating photograph because i am always amazed somebody would run over and grab a camera of something this huge blowing up. with that is a stunning photograph. that is a nagasaki. this is also a nagasaki print you note the mountains very nearby the fact nagasaki is in a valley surrounded by mountains really soften the blow a little bit in the sense that contain the blast in a smaller area because of the mountains. hiroshima did not have that luxury again just the fires that were set off in nagasaki and you can see these are amazing photographs. >> downright apocalyptic. i'm sorry, no place great. >> you see the child is on his back you has a horrible radiation burns. okay, >> and the interest of further contextuali

you go to guam first and you fly into hiroshima. you start to see where the famous flag raising. everybody chatting on the plane and it was a happy feeling on the plane until we drop below the clouds and we saw and went completely silent. the men are so remarkable in their 90's making the trip and their energy was just infectious and i absolutely loved the time that i got to spend with them. >> let's talk about some of them because one of the things i loved watching after the book came out was the outpouring of gratitude to you for writing the book and for telling the story. you have to read the book. all the way to the end because when you tell the stories about all of the characters that we meet throughout the book, it's just beautiful writing. masterful writing, i think, you hear from them and you -- >> aye kept in touch with a lot of people, charlie, george coburn, i keep in touch overtime. one thing that's remarkable outpouring of letters of people who were tangently involved. he said, thank you for writing this book, i write b

it was about the heroism of soldiers during the battle ofer hiroshima. martha agreed to join us at the library to discuss her book. of course at the time almost exactly a year ago little did we know just a few days before she was to come, the coronavirus was going to strike and in the wake of the pandemic we were forced to close the reagan library and cancel all of our events including our visit with martha. i'm not exaggerating when i say we had to disappoint over a thousand people who were eager to come to the library to see her. now here we are a full year later. the bad news is that the virus is still with us but the good news is during this time the foundation developed the ability to go digital. we moved our speaker series online and began producing quality programming for the social media channels in a new and better format. tens of thousands of our supporters have been tuning into the virtual events we are bringing you now sometimes two to three timeses a week. this week we are thrilled to host the long-awaited event to discuss her book entitled

and the mayor of hiroshima is a socialist. and he said mr. galloway, we people of hiroshima, we hold no grudge against mr. truman. but we do wish that he would quit saying if he had it all to do over again he would bomb us again. and i happened to know that the mayor as a young man had worked as a clerk in the post office in hiroshima. and the night for it was new, his boss, he had been working long hours and his boss said yoshi, you look tired. why don't you sleep in tomorrow morning. and he lived about 10 miles outside the city and when the place got nuked, he was not there. he was home asleep. and it saved his life of course. and i said mr. mayor, if harry truman had it all to do over again and the situation was exactly the same, you better sleep in again. he was not amused. >> i was going to ask you if he laughed. >> he did not. the interview was over at that point. but harry truman is just a remarkable man. i first came to know him when my first job outside texas was kansas city. in the first day at work at the boss says, i'm going to br

the mayor of hiroshima is a socialist. she said oh mr.galloway, we people of hiroshima hold no grudge against mr. galloway but we wish you would say that if you had to do it all over again he would bomb us again. i happen to know as mayor, as a young man i worked as a clerk in the post office in hiroshima and the night before was moot. his boss, he had been working long hours, his boss as you look tired. why don't you sleep in tomorrow morning? he lived about ten miles outside of the city. and when the place got nuked he was not there. he was home asleep. and it saved his life, of course. and i said mister mayor, if harry truman had it all to do over again, and the situation was exactly the same you better sleep in again. he was not amused. he did not. the interview was over at that point. harry truman was just a remarkable man. i first came to know him when my first job outside of texas was kansas city. the first day at work, the bosses i'm going to break un, on the day side a bit, then you're going on the night shift because you were th

start with the biggie the 1st and only use of atomic bombs in a war it's been over 75 years since hiroshima and nagasaki were devastated by the actions of the us but not even obama was willing to make apologies for that in the midst of war leaders make all kinds of decisions it's the job of historians to. ask questions and examine them ok how about another war where dangerous weapons were used agent orange in vietnam for example and let's not forget about that forever war that biden has just promised to actually end after 20 years of bloodshed we cannot continue the cycle of the extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the draw and expect you to different result that withdrawal speech surprisingly didn't come with a sorry for overstaying our welcome section but if those examples are too controversal want to start a little smaller. and apologize for the treatment and persecution of julian assange perhaps even drop the charges against him since his case threatens the very idea of journalistic freedoms but now what was i thinking how dar

and also another given given that we've been able to kill each other with nuclear weapons since hiroshima and nagasaki why. do we need to be able to kill each other so many more times in so many more inventive ways the brookings institute on his website today is saying one american nuclear warhead would cost you 8400000 dollars it costs $400000.00 u.s. dollars to get a nurse fully trained to go to war against cove it so if the united states has $6000.00 nuclear warheads the united states could have instead of that 130000 nurses and doctors to push back against coronavirus around the world. my mom if she was alive might say spend the money on nurses and doctors don't spend it on nuclear weapons. no i see we're going with this i mean i'm going to same page with the. incredulity of the whole thing where you just belies logic but i think the answer to this is a lot it is extremely complex right i mean 1st of all one could argue that this has been somehow wired into the human condition that all poised towards war and suspicion distrust and rivalry by the same time i think and it's also an econ

but you begin to think, why is it we have not had a nuclear weapon used since hiroshima? it is because of the deterrence and that mutually assured destruction that we have on the reason why we cannot let her adversaries make a mistake or miss calculate or underestimate our resolve to defend our country and our way of life. through the cold war russia was convinced that they initiated a nuclear strike. that it would just result in a response that would threaten that country's survival. unfortunately nuclear weapons with threatening world's survival afraid there are so many of them. but to your point, i think keeping our weapons production capability up to speed, making sure we refurbish the old weapons we had in modernize them, but also make new plutonium to be used is an important part of that deterrence. that commitment, i think we need to keep congress to speak to modernize the arsenal and to keep the triad. i know there's some talk about a limited when the legs of the triad pretty think it's important to maintain our capabilities on land and the air. and at sea. back t

minister by that time, and, of course, harry truman had a big decision to make with the atomic bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki. but after that, one of the major chapters was, in fact, the iron curtain speech on march 5th, 1946, 75 years ago. you'll see the marshal plan that unfolded. how to reconstruct came out of that speech, and churchill had another famous speech in zurich where he called for a united states of europe and sent into action many of the things that are outlined in the marshal plan. after the iron curtain speech, many of the things winston churchill warned about came to pass, and the west responded very much following churchill's playbook with the berlin airlift, after the the berlin blockade. the truman plan came in to be, which was what came from winston's playbook. it ultimately did end the wage in the cold war for decades to come. >> let's talk about some of the specifics from churchill's speech. i'm going to play for viewers a piece of his march 5, 1946 speech, where churchill is talking about his concerns and a policy of appeasement when it comes to soviet russia. here is th

followed by a discussion on the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. later, authors share their story of women who fought against germany during world war ii. book tvs coverage of the virtual san antonio book festival starts now. stay back welcome every one a discussion about we are so excited, i am so excited. i was telling matt and erin i feel like i know them a little bit because i have been reading their books together. they've been in my head for the past couple of weeks. it has been such a journey to read your books together. i would recommend a lot of people read them together. it was an experience for sure. so thank you for joining us. so the first question i have, is, we were just talking at the introduction to your book you had to be both an and activists. we had met both of those hats on as we embarked on that journey. the fellow journalist myself i have them to deeply understand there is no such thing as coming to a story or to a peace of reporting from a place of nowhere. there is no such thing as ultimate objectivity. we look at the world

followed by a discussion on the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki.er, authors share their story of women who fought against germany during world war ii. book tvs coverage of the virtual san antonio book festival starts now. stay back welcome every one a discussion about we are so excited, i am so excited. i was telling matt and erin i feel like i know them a little bit because i have been reading their books together. they've been in my head for the past couple of weeks. it has been such a journey to read your books together. i would recommend a lot of people read them together. it was an experience for sure. so thank you for joining

i proceeded with my jokes and levity and satire and i bombed like a b 29 over hiroshima.was saying, why do the reagan's even show up if he is going to do that? i am no lincoln. lincoln was a friend of mine, and i am no abraham lincoln. >> lincoln said hardy look relieves you. again, we are in the middle of a pandemic, the horrors of 9/11, how do you fire up a tragic event like that? >> i think you have to keep in mind though to that lincoln himself lived through the most traumatic period in our history as a country, as a nation. and the attempt to break up the union, the civil war, based on slavery and life was much more difficult back in those days. in terms of survival itself, there wasn't a mcdonald's or starbucks at every block in those days. so solves arrival was different. and this goes more to the point in terms of, it's not so much humor, but using wet, that lincoln did, in terms of slavery when he said, whenever i hear anyone arguing for slavery, i feel a strong impulse to see him tried on him personally. it's spoke directly to that issue as to what the morality

and i bombed like a b-29 over hiroshima. it just -- it just -- and i was thinking, why did the reagans even show up if he's going to do that? i mean, lincoln was -- i'm no lincoln. lincoln was a friend of mine and i'm no abraham lincoln. >> lincoln said a hearty laugh -- but that anticipated a question. we're in the middle of a pandemic. you know, you keep -- the horrors of 9/11. i mean, how do you fire up after a tragic event be like that? it's pretty tough. >> i think you have to keep in mind, though, too that lincoln himself lived through the most traumatic period in our history as a country, as a nation. the attempt to break up the union, the civil war. and based on slavery. and life was much more difficult back in those days. you know, in terms of survival itself. there wasn't a mcdonald's on every block or starbucks every block in those days. so, self-survival was different. but, you know, and this goes more to the point of it's not so much humor but using wit that lincoln did in terms of slavery when he said, whenever

minister by that time, and of course harry truman had the big decision to make with the atomic bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki. after that, one of the next major chapters was in fact the iron curtain speech on march 5th, 1946, 75 years ago. after that the marshall plan unfolded as part of the cold war. some of the ideas on how to reconstruct europe after the war came out of the fulton speech, more importantly, in 1946, churchill was emboldened to make another speech in zurich, where he called for a united states of europe, and set into action many of the things that are outlined in the marshall plan. of course, after the iron curtain speech, many of the things churchill warned about came to pass, and the soviet expansion was real. and the west responded, very much following churchill's playbook with the berlin airlift, after the berlin blockade. the truman plan came in to be, which was a blueprint taken from churchill's playbook, and it really did inspire the west to ultimately wage their tactics in the cold cold war for decades to come. >> let's talk about some of the specifics from churchill sp

minister by that time and of course harry truman had the big decision to make with the atomic bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki, you know, but after that one of the next major chapters was in fact the iron curtain speech on march 5th, 1946 75 years ago after that you'll see, you know, the marshall plan that that unfolded as part of the cold war. that was a really some of the ideas and how to reconstruct europe after the war came out of the fulton speech, but also more importantly in 1946 churchill was in bold to make another speech in zurich famous speech in zurich where he called for a united states of europe. and certain into action many of the things that are outlined in the marshall plan and of course after the iron curtain speech many of the things that churchill warned about came to pass and the soviet expansion was was real and the west responded very much following churchill's playbook with the berlin airlift after the berlin rock blockade the truman plan came in to be which was a blueprint taken from churchill's playbook, and it really did inform and inspire the west to to ultimately wage

for example films about, nagasaki and hiroshima, i think it took 30 years before -- the japanese did it first. >> a kind of a segue of another film that was censored, which human shirt before. it also shows mental illness and it's truthful form. was that the reason -- i mean it was invading the privacy, it was the presumption, and there were lawsuits. >> that had to do with a hospital, i think, though. >> it was the hospital. it's very stark. you've seen it. i've seen it. >> again, it's always the audience borderline. why am i watching this? why do you want me to watch this? do you want me to watch this and say wow, that crazy guy. he's walking around naked. wow, look at that. or do you want to say, these are people who were in very bad situations in this hospital. the hospital people wanted the film made because they hope it would improve conditions. but what happened, the same argument was made, you are invading the privacy of these people. in some cases many of the people had died in the film by the time it was shown. so again, to me, these are fascinating things. as a documentary

for example, films about nagasaki and hiroshima, i think it took 30 years before they were shown in all their detail. the japanese did it first. >> kind of a segway of another film that was censored, which you mentioned before, "ticket follies" also shows mental illness in its true form. it was invading privacy and there were lawsuits. >> that had to do with the hospital i think, though. >> it was a hospital i think it was -- i mean, it's very stark. you've seen it, i've seen it. >> it's a very powerful film. but, again, it's always that audience borderline. like i say, why are you telling me this? why am i watching this? why do you want me to watch this? do you want me to watch this and say, god, look at that crazy guy, he's walking around naked. you know, wow, look at that. or do you want to say, you know, these are people who were in a very bad situation in this hospital, and the hospital people wanted the film made because they hoped it would improve conditions. but what happened was that the same argument was made, you're invading the privacy of these people. so, in some cases, man