. >>> survivors of the atomic bombing of nagasaki and some of their neighbors have staged a sit-in. they used the annual new year's day protest to call for the limb names of nuclear arms. >>> the form more mayor of nagasaki says people have a duty to. the pris pats galtherred in front of the peace statue and offered a minute of silent prayer at 11:02 a.m. t time the bomb was dropped. >> the atomic bomb viral to call for peace and elimination of nuclear weapons. >> a high school student says she wants to help convey the survivors' messages to younger generations. she said she and her contemporaries will be the last people to hear the survivors accounts firsthand. >>> japanese government officials say they plan to revise their policy for disposing of nuclear waste. they want to play a more active role in selecting disposal sites. the officials plan to store highly radioactive waste from nuclear plants deep under ground. they're drawing on a law that came into effect in the year 2000. they've been asking their local counterparts to suggest possible sites. local officials have not offer

on balance we should not have dropped it on nagasaki or hiroshima. we were winning the war in the way. the emperor was preparing to surrender regret the very least we could have waited a few more weeks to see if the surrender talks we're going to succeed or not but i recognize it is a very controversial area but that is my opinion. >> from providence and day school, a student. >> i am a junior. what the of the reaction rigby the ballistic missile attack since they have not signed any sort of pact? >> that is a tricky question because israel would not attack palestine you read the occupied territories with the ballistic missile that is a long-range weapon they go hundreds or thousands of kilometers. if there is a conflict between israel and palestine it would probably be tanks, mortars and airdrops but to take the ballistic parts out, what would happen? you have seen it. israel did an attack on the causes strep a while back in response to repeated rocket launches coming out on israeli towns. the world does not like it. the world in general sees that i

. -- nagasaki.t first, it was a place where they could stage large numbers of troop or they could maintain peace during the american thatation, but soon after the korean war started, and when the korean war started, the u.s. engaged in a massive base building campaign. the occupation ended in 1952, but the occupation continued for 20 years after that, in which the u.s. had full control of the bases on those islands. is island of okinawa strategically located. you can send bombing missions to china,nto vietnam, into and, in fact, the u.s. did use the air force base inokinawa as a base to bomb korea and also in north vietnam. >> so, using it for vietnam, was their opposition expressed at that time and how did that go forward? >> sure. and the thing about okinawa, which is why it is important to see this in the long perspective, having that many citizens killed in world war ii, deeplyple have a okinawa seated pessimism toward war. they tolerated u.s. presence because they had no choice for many, many y

the japanese didn't want nuclear power after nagasaki and hiroshima, but they were talked into it. so it's a really wicked, wicked industry. and any country that has a reactor, be it syria, saudi arabia--you name it, they have a bomb factory. because each reactor makes 500 pounds of plutonium a year, plutonium lasts for half a million years, and all you need is 5 pounds to make yourself a nuclear weapon. so by selling nuclear power abroad, which america is heavily into, it is causing proliferation of nuclear weapons--which it says it's not, but it is--and that could trigger a global holocaust between russia and america who still target each other with thousands of nuclear weapons. >> does the average doctor understand the full risks involved with radiation and nuclear power plants? >> no. we're not taught about the medical implications of nuclear power in medical schools. we did get some curricula going--physicians for social responsibility in the eighties in medical schools-- about nuclear war, but also nuclear power. it's a very, very interesting subject but one about which most

country's delegation the zealot or what i found it through the nineteen forty five atomic bombing of nagasaki and for decades has achieved in many of the survivors. he was tmi he she has gone. the data had been written off hospitality management team he said. even getting to know people aren't alone read about what has happened to the survivors using atomic bombings. tell walt and supply ephesus to suffer known for its new fuel costs not only killed many people and yet it also caused tens of thousands of people within twenty four wheeler yet the cabal stopped during the one time in toc not deny the fact he gets to honey ham thousand people in thirty year loan. come on and that was nearly three kilometers from guns the dough at the time and that the sticky bombing. he was exposed to radiation. da spoke to. was the end decade after the bombings. he knew of the survivors had built the team yet one that benefit he stopped to camp to become a doctor he himself has not built any duty fees. but like eating trade demands. he has a week's massacre from the impact of radiation. and how survivors have t

officials have posted online a report on the medical effects of atomic bombings in hiroshima and nagasaki. a part of the document was previously classified. the u.s. military dropped atomic bombs on the two cities in august 1945 during world war ii. u.s. army researchers compiled a six volume report on the subject in 1951. 180 doctors, and researchers from japan and the u.s. military, conducted the investigation from september to october in 1945. part of information gathered reveals clinical observations for about 13,000 survivors. it includes information on how far from ground zero survivors were at the time of the bombings. and whether they were shielded by concrete buildings. researchers investigated the consequences of injury caused by the blast, and from heat and exposure to radiation. the last section of the posted report analyzes the lethal capacity of the bombs based on the number of casualties relative to where it was dropped. it focuses on 17,000 children in hiroshima who were within 4 kilometers of ground zero. the u.s. government had classified this section due to political co

we know from the hiroshima and nagasaki data, there is no safe level of tonight radiation.t produces cancers and we know from aler stewart's work in britain, one x-ray of a fetus increases that fetus's chance of developing leukemia by one and a half to two times and this is just humans and cancer. there is much more that goes on terms of immune systems and in terms of the ecosystem with birds and animals that we are now seeing around chernobyl and in the fukushima area. >> i will point out that there are some studies that would dispute some of that, some studies that suggest that there is no multi-generalation effect, the immediate damage in utero might be severe. multi-generationally, you may not see that affect. there is this question and for a woman as we sidewalk in the report of a mother of two young children. there are specific fears. how far does that spread in your mind in the how far is the limit? we know there was a certain amount of radiation exposure in all of our lives today. >> there is. we all are expose today background radiation, but i think to add to it wi

i think day aye tommic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki the first thing at that time come to mind, and bombing in major cities tends to get forgotten or not discussed. i think that sort of experience dies hard. but then it's been almost 70 years, nearly 70 years, since the end of the war, and that sort of collective experience is becoming thinner and thinner. so, i can't really say even that they have this strong attachment to any of the bombings, including a-bombings, aside for the fact that they get taught in school much moore effectively than they are being taught about -- >> maybe may be another reason, why so many japanese intellectuals, people who were not fascists, applauded pearl harbor because it came as an enormous relief. they had been fighting china, and getting deeper and deeper into what was a quagmire. people felt rather -- many people felt embarrassed, think, before the -- about it. even now. more people know if they think about world war ii, know more about the atrocities committed against the china than they know about pearl harbor. and into a lot of intellectuals

and believe me, that's one of the reasons this story is getting more play than hiro jima and nagasakined because if it effects journalists it's a big deal. >> now, christie himself, i'm not giving him props for firing anybody, he had to fire them. he had to. >> right. >> all right. so i'm not saying. >> but he did. >> he did because he had to. the president didn't have to because we still don't know who screwed up in benghazi. >> hold on. hold on. >> he could have but he didn't. >> wait a second. bill, are you telling me that he didn't have to fire somebody for the obamacare rollout? >> no. >> come on. >> that was such a disaster. >> here is why he didn't have to do it. he is not running again. >> here is why he didn't have to do it. because the so-called mainstream media will never hold him to account. >> no. but his poll numbers went way down, okay. so obama took the hit among the folks. the folks who were paying attention. the folks who watch the factor and fox news channel, whatever. he took the hit. but he says so what? i don't care. i'm not running again. i will keep sebelius in

we should not have dropped it on hiroshima and nagasaki. we were winning the war anyway. the emperor of japan was preparing to surrender. i don't think it would have caused a land invasion of japan. at the very least we could have waited a few more weeks to see if those surrender talks were, in fact, going to succeed or not. but i recognize this remains a very controversial area, but you asked my opinion. that's it. >> questions. a student question up front. >> tell us what grade you're in. >> junior at providence day. >> what would the world's response to ballistic missile attack on palestine and israel because since israel has not signed a proliferation of them were in agreement on that sort. >> it's a tricky question because, well, israel actually wouldn't attack palestine. by palestine, you mean the occupied territory of the west bank or gaza with a ballistic missile to ballistic missile our long range weapon. vagal hundreds or thousands of kilometers. if there is a conflict between israel and the people who live in palestine, it would probably be tanks and mortars an

reporter: this professor of preventative medicine studied the effects of radiation from hiroshima and nagasaki and says the data collected so far on fukushima doesn't show a health risk to those eating pacific fish. >> in a word, the answer is there's no danger from fukushima with the fish that we eat. >> reporter: kagawa tells us while all fish can't be tested for radiation, the fda conducts spot checks on all fish brought into the united states. >> juan also reminds us about the mercury scare in swordfish a few years back. that went away. health experts say eating fish once or twice a week is good for you. >>> checking your weather every day is excellent medicine for you. paul deanno is out there tonight with the latest. >> reporter: i'm told vitamin d is good for you. you get it from sunlight. we're flush with vitamin d. we had a lot of afternoon sunshine after lots of morning cloud cover. a weak system passed by but this evening it's all about a gorgeous sunset. we take the mobile weather lab out to treasure island. look at the gorgeous view, fog- free, of san francisco from treasure islan

what we do know is that even after the second bomb at nagasaki, the japanese war council, which was -- they were the ones who had to decide on whether to surrender or not and it had to be a unanimous decision. diehards in the war council still argued that they had to fight to the last man, woman and child. it was only the second time in his reign that the emperor actually did step in. i'm sure he didn't -- he did step in and said no, no. we have to surrender. the main reason i think was the japanese were afraid that the red army would get there first, or they would be a communist inspired rebellion. the other thing the bombing did was that it gave the diehards in some ways an excuse to surrender. because they could say, well, we haven't lost face. we haven't lost -- we fought a war. we were not defeated but with a weapon like that, it's like boxing somebody, your opponent suddenly draws begun. what do you do? so it served as a way out. now, whether it was absolutely necessary, as i said, we won't know because they would have surrendered but it may have taken more time. more interestin