me is the we got most of nagasaki is still pending. people died because the radiation killed them but unlike it didn't leveled nagasaki so it's still in effect a city with many ancient ruins and so forth, and i was interested. that's the kind of stuff that unless you go there you don't necessarily find out about the difference. when you will wind what else did you find cracks. >> the account of the operations over japan was included in not just the u.s. army and the navy and the marine corps and the british navy and the thing that most struck me in is americans have said that there was a second front in world war front along the potomac of washington, d.c. with army versus navy but in tokyo the enter service rivalry was a full contact sport. the imperial navy and the japanese army cordially detested each other. they spoke to each other as little as possible and institutionally they were so far removed that it makes my brain hurt. the air force was heavily influenced by the french from about the per goal for one. in the french aircraft

navy personnel docked a ship near nagasaki japan. the u.s. ship is an amphibious assault vessel and will be a giant landing pad for a new and controversial aircraft. nhk world takes us onboard. >> reporter: it's 250 meters long, can carry 1,000 crew members, plus an additional 1,900 marines during operations. u.s. navy personnel held a ceremony monday to mark the arrival of the ship in japan. >> thank you nagasaki prefecture and japanese self-defense force. >> reporter: navy spokespeople say upgrades to this vessel has made it the most capable ship of its class. the ship has been on water since the late 1990s. the americans relied on it during the iraq war. it also used a vessel to help with relief efforts following the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. here in japan, it will merely be used as a carrier for the new helicopter. they trained it and the deck has been reinforced. but that hasn't put an end to questions, itself. some people say it just isn't safe. the osprey suffered a series of crashes during its development. the latest happened early t

so what amazed me when we got there was that most of nagasaki is still standing. people died because the radiation killed them, but unlike hiroshima, the bomb did not level nagasaki. so it is still intact, a city with many ancient, you know, relics and ruins and so forth. i was interested, that's the kind of stuff that you don't, and let you go there, you don't necessarily ever find out about the differences. when you were dashed when you wrote "whirlwind," what else did you find? >> "whirlwind," on so many dashed i'm still amazed at the it include not just u.s. army and the navy and marine corps and the british royal navy, and the thing that most struck me in researching "whirlwind," you know, americans have always said that there was a second front in world war ii, and it was along the potomac in washington, d.c. with army versus navy, army versus army air force. but in tokyo, interservice rivalry was practically a full contact sport. at the imperial navy and the japanese army cordially contested each other. they spoke to each other as little as possible, and in

here in nagasaki prefecture, you saw 130 millimeters of rainfall today. this is bringing the threat of some localized flooding. but good news, as it quickly rushes off to the east, high pressure will be ridging in behind it, bringing fair conditions out here across the korean peninsula and japan. still watching a launch site here for the possible rocket launch this week. and on thursday, friday and saturday, high pressure is going to be dominating here, bringing sunny conditions. some partly cloudy skies could move through. but overall winds will remain light, although on sunday going into monday, cloudy skies will prevail, with some rain showers actually on monday expected there. so very unfavorable for launch on these two days. although thursday, friday, saturday would be the better days for that. let's look at temperatures out here in seoul. 15 for your high. beijing, 23. down towards the south, tropical moisture continues to develop here. bangkok at 36. into the low 30s across much of indonesia, that's also assisting into the rain showers there as wel

rain of over 130 millimeters have fallen in nagasaki prefecture. and the system is now starting to impact the central japan. so very heavy rain and strong winds are on the cards. but by tomorrow, things will be clearing up and sunny weather should return. as for the korean peninsula, getting dry, but things are getting very wet across the southern half of china. down towards the indochina peninsula, widespread scattered showers and rain will intensify across parts of cambodia as well as southern vietnam. moving on to the americas, things are getting wet and windy in the west. as a low pressure system moves in a the system will produce very heavy snow in the upper elevations. up to 60 centimeters of snow is on the cards in the southern sierras from wednesday into friday. meanwhile, active weather is still going on across the southern plains, particularly wet in northern texas. the threat of severe thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds and even tornadoes will continue throughout tuesday night. the threat will be also spread into colorado and new

the "uss -- has docked out of nagasaki.t will serve as a landing pad for a new and controversial aircraft. here's a close-up look. >> reporter: it's 250 meters long. can carry thousand crew members, plus an additional 1900 -- u.s. navy personnel had a ceremony monday to mark the arrival in japan. >> thank you sasabo city and japanese self-defense force. >> reporter: navy spokespeople say upgrades to this vessel has made it the most capable ship of its class. the ship has been on water since the 1990s. they relied on it during the iraq war. they'll also use it to help ryth relief efforts following the 2004 indian tsunami. but here in japan, it will mainly be used as a carrier for the new helicopter. the deck has been reinforced. but that hasn't put an end to questions. some say it just isn't safe. it suffered a series of crashes during its development. the latest happened earlier this month. two american marines died. it is due to be deployed in october at the u.s. futenma air station in okinawa. the base is in a densely pop

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bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki, the japanese left shanghai, and the americans liberated the ghetto. jubilation, however, was short-lived. they had heard rumors that bad things were happening to jews in europe, but they had no idea that 6 million had been killed. >> it was really a very difficult time. on the one hand, we were happy the war was over. and th when we found out what had happened in europe, that none of our family had survived, most of the families had not survived, and it was quite terrible. it was quite shocking. >> the jewish community in shanghai survived largely intact. the wacs family and many others finally started making their way to america, where they began a new life. both ilie and deborah eventually got married and had children. ilie became a successful fashion designer. deborah became a fundraiser and served as deputy chief of protocol for the city of san francisco. they didn't talk about what had happened in shanghai. then for his 70th birthday, ilie wanted to visit the holocaust museum. deborah reluctantly came along. and there, they saw a photo of three

. >> but compared to, say, hiroshima or nagasaki? >> vastly more. two or three megaton. and one megaton equals 80 hiroshimas. >> let me go back to bennie schreiver, four star general before it was over, died you say june 20th, 2005, at 94 years old. you did 52 interviews with this man. split that up. what was the environment and how long did you talk to him? >> we would meet on saturday. he was in between marriages when i first met him, and we would meet on saturday mornings at his house which is eight blocks from where i live in northwest washington. and before he went to lunch at burning tree which was his golf club. and we would -- and i would pick up where i left off the last time and i'd take him through the story. and it was -- and we got -- he was a very -- bernie was a -- bennie was a very thoughtful man. he wanted to make sure that you were the person to tell his story. at first he was a bit standoffish with me. then he decided that i was the person to tell the story and he became very cooperative. >> how old was he when you first met tw hwith him? >> in his 80s

he had developed the plutonium -- the explosive wrapper around the plutonium bomb, the nagasaki bomb, he played a critical part in building the atomic bomb in the manhattan project and he had great prestige, and schreiver recruited him. >> they had been told by the national security staff that they were restricted to a half an hour for the three presentations. tyler who was he? >> he was the head of the air force research and development command. he'd been lamay's deputy at strategic air command. he'd been lamay's deputy since world war ii. he flew over tokyo during the famous firebombing and had been made head of the air force or the technical command, the air force research and development command. but he was -- although he was lamay's protege, he was not locked in and schreiver recruited him to the idea of building these. >> but you also mention in here charlie wilson. >> he was the secretary of defense who was opposed to the program but they overcame him. they had enormous obstacles to overcome. they had to intrigue their way into this briefing. because they knew they had to get t

after the united states dropped atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki in 1945, tens of thousands died of radiation sickness and cancers. yet now japan's prime minister felt he had no choice but to authorize the deliberate release of radioactivity. >> narrator: but there was something tepco wasn't telling the prime minister: the company had never imagined they might have to vent a reactor without electricity. they didn't know how to do it. >> (translated): the venting valves are driven by motors. so without electricity, they won't open. it's possible to open them manually, but really difficult. >> narrator: in the darkness of the reactor one control room, the workers pored over blprin to try toork out how to open the vents. the handwritten plant logs show that radiation levels were now rising. >> (translated): to see those kinds of numbers would normally be unthinkable. and this isn't inside the reactor itself. it's in the office. it was a disaster. >> narrator: the engineers suspected something that the prime minister and tepco would not acknowledge for months: nuclear meltdown had be

you know what the bomb that hit nagasaki was? plutonium. plutonium. does the same thing. plutonium is made from uranium 235--238, very plentiful, but you got to bombard it with neutrons so you can make it. you can make plutonium. now, why do we get this 200 million electron volt? that's what i want you to know. you--all you guys know that uranium splits into elements and you get a lot of energy off, and you all know that the neutrons will cause new reactions. niceroony, that's junior high school knowledge, yeah, anyone takes a science course. what we wanna know is why all that energy, and i have a model for you to consider. and it has to do with mass. see on the table here, i have-- oh, it's imagination time. look, i have all the 92 elements in the periodic table that's found commonly in the earth's crust, almost all 92, are all arranged here. see the hydrogen here? see the hydrogen atom? what's this one here? helium. helium. what's this one? lithium. lithium. i got no names, but you can just kinda look at them, right? what's the next one? i keep running after you. i know

for an atomic blast americans have never come to grips even with the atomic bomb in hiroshima or nagasaki or the nuclear age they ushered in. there can be no question that the big bank might end little, the atomic bomb haunted cold war america. in those years we watched and was versions of nuclear disaster. the grown-ups who ran our world went on a spree. when the cold war finally ended with the soviet union's peaceful collapse a nuclear peace dividend never quite arrived. the arsenal of the superpower adversary remained in place, throws down the strangely and touch awaiting new mention but just the on site the knowledge of making such weapons spread to other countries ready to launch their own mini cold wars. 50 years after the first bomb went off over hiroshima it still proved impossible to agree on a nuclear -- august 6th, 1945, the personal global war and horrific beginning of the new age. the plane that dropped the hiroshima bomb that shattered school child's lunch box from hiroshima, the same exhibit at the smithsonian national air and space museum in washington d.c.. for people of

august 6th, an atomic bomb on hiroshima august 6, nagasaki. congress is out of session and the war is over. the planners haven't had a chance to come in with their programs and immediately truman wants to get them back into session with by this time some were saying this 94% tax i don't think is kind to get america back on track. the keynesian completely believed it. listen, truman's secretary of treasury gives you an idea where the americans were who favored this kind of intervention. of course lord keynes have come out with his idea that you need public-works to stimulate the aggregate demand. lots of government intervention coming and he will eliminate unemployment through that. so what the secretary of treasury bonds and another kentucky in by the way, the secretary of treasury says right after the war meant the japanese had surrendered and he wants massive government intervention and he says history shows that business, labour, agriculture cannot in themselves assure the maintenance of high levels of production and employment in other wor

a century in which we of world war i, world war ii, the holocaust, hiroshima, nagasaki and so forth. but the worst calamity was the dismantling of the soviet union. he wants to re-create it as a eurasian union which is pushing now. but much more important is the fact that within russia there is now emerging an international mind that middle-class, younger members of the middle-class locate in the big cities, most of whom have continuous exposure to the west and the world at large, who traveled to the west, who studied in the west in many cases, and who are partaking of the notion that they are a civic society. that is, to say a society entitled to have the same privileges and rights that democracy in the west have. this is something utterly new in russia, and it is getting stronger and stronger. and it is accompanied by something which is also without president in russia, totally without president. the absence of political fear. the fact that someone now dear goes out to red square and hold up a placard in which they show put them behind bars, to me it was unthinkable. the person doi

blast -- americans have never really come to grips either with the atomic bombings or hiroshima and nagasaki, or with the nuclear age they ushered in. as the big bang that might end it all, the atomic bomb haunted cold war america. in those years while the young -- myself included -- watched endless versions of nuclear disaster transmuted into b horror films, the grown-ups who ran our world went on a vast shopper spree for world-ending weaponry, building nuclear arsenals that came to number in the tens of thousands. when the cold war quietly ended, however, a nuclear peace dividend never quite arrived. the arsenals of the former superpower adversaries remain choirfully in place, drawn down but strangely untouched, awaiting a new mission while just beyond sight the knowledge of the making of such weapons spread to other countries ready to launch their own threatening mini-cold wars. even 50 years after that first bomb went off over hiroshima, it still proved impossible in the united states to agree upon a nuclear creation tale. it was august 6, 1945, the heroic ending to a global war or the h

august 6th, an atomic bomb on hiroshima august 6, nagasaki. congress is out of session and the war is over. the planners haven't had a chance to come in with their programs and immediately truman wants to get them back into session with by this time some were saying this 94% tax i don't think is kind to get america back on track. the keynesian completely believed it. listen, truman's secretary of treasury gives you an idea where the americans were who favored this kind of intervention. of course lord keynes have come out with his idea that you need public-works to stimulate the aggregate demand. lots of government intervention coming and he will eliminate unemployment through that. so what the secretary of treasury bonds and another kentucky in by the way, the secretary of treasury says right after the war meant the japanese had surrendered and he wants massive government intervention and he says history shows that business, labour, agriculture cannot in themselves assure the maintenance of high levels of production and employment in other wor

fragmentation of the soviet union and world war i, world war ii, the holocaust come to russia come and nagasaki and so forth and it's a dismantling of the soviet union. much more important than that it was not emerging and internationally minded middle class composed of the number class located in the big cities most of whom have continuous exposure to the west and to the world largest travel to the west who study in the west in many cases and are partaking the notion that there is a civic society that is to say society entitled to have the same privileges and rights that the democracies of the west hanft. it's getting stronger and stronger and is without precedent the absence of political fear and some lenders to the lot on the red square and hold up a placard in which the show putin behind bars to me is almost unthinkable since i felt the dhaka dealt with the soviet union. person during that 20, 30, 40 years ago with the hobaugh immediately and shot probably within a day. the new society that is emerging is fearless and that's a new reality and therefore i think with russia and turkey can to

the nagasaki bomb was by comparison 20. this is very dangerous.ey want to weaponize, that's dangerous. it could be a test based on their uranium enrichment program. when i was in them -- uranium test would be very dangerous because they can hide it. they can hide the capability and it would be difficult to detect. the ballistic missile threat is real. taepo dong missiles have a large payload, and it is a new missile they unveiled. i would encourage a focus on the danger of transfer. in 2003, the north korean delegation told us that if we did not end our policy, they would dprk nuclear weapons to third countries. we took the threat seriously at the time. we later, next year, found uranium fluorite traces from north korea, it in 2007, israeli bombed a nuclear reactor. in 2008, we had discussions about burma and north korea on nuclear issues. if there is no smoking gun, the iran connection should be watched. so there is a nuclear weapons capability, and our efforts today have hardly deter them from that path. what we do? the present statement from th

the nagasaki bomb by comparison was 20. it could be a test on the uranium richard -- uranium enrichment program, which many commentators said could not be real until the north actually showed exports their centrifuges. your brain tests would be very dangerous it -- a uranium test would be very dangerous. i would encourage a focus on the danger of transfer. 2003, the north korean delegation told the american delegation that if we did not in our hostile policies, it would transfer their nuclear weapons -- nuclear weapons capability to a third country. we found the uranium hexachloride traces from north korea. in 2007, a nuclear reactor complex was bombed that was built by the north koreans. there were discussions between burma and north korea on nuclear connections. the north is clearly heading towards a nuclear weapons capability, deliverable for ballistic missiles or your country transfer. our efforts have slowed. it is said north korea will not negotiate under pressure. the historical pattern is north korea will not negoti