are breaking -- anti-soviet hard-liners who say that the soviet union are breaking all of their agreements. truman took this hard-line that the soviets were cheating and breaking their agreements and it took a steadily down the path toward confrontation, with roosevelt knew was not necessary. tavis: and japan, the bomb, you take this issue on and try to set the record straight. >> most americans don't realize that six of the 75-star officers would -- of the seven five-star officers said it was unnecessary. douglas macarthur, who was hardly known as a pacifist, also said that commit the united states had told the -- also said that, if the united states had told the japanese that they could keep the emperor, it would have had a separate outcome. eisenhower said that he learned that we were going to drop the bomb in the japanese and eisenhower said he got depressed. he said we don't need to do it. first of all, the japanese are defeated and ready to surrender. and i would hate to see our country to be the first to use that kind of weapon. you had animals against that kind of weapon

>> 15 million. >> that is close to with the soviet union does. >> soviet union lost more in the more concentrated way because you love to fight in the area. but -- >> japan lost.??????? most of these 50 million casualties were civilians in china. so, that the accepting. >> maochun yu, professor, wha do you teach here at the u.s. naval academy? >> mostly the military history of world war ii and modern chin i also teach the u.s. naval institute, since fascinating. been there for 18 years and it's a blast. >> yet here is the of bouck. this is booktv on c-span2. >>> visit book tv to watch any of the programs you see here on line to retype the author or the title in the upper side of the page and click search. you can also share in meeting you see on book tv easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. book tv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >>> booktv will be live with the miami look for international help on the campus of mia

close to wht the soviet union lost. >> of the union lost more. soviet union lost more in a more concentrated way because german policy on the eastern front was much more brutal than other areas. >> japan lost. >> oh, yes.????? most of? the 50 million casualties were civilians in china. so that is the accepted number. >> professor. what do you teacher at the  academy? >> mostly the military history. world war two. modern china, east asia. we have of very strict curriculum. i also teach u.s. naval history so it is fascinating. been here for 18 years. it's been a blast. >> here is the book. "oss in china: prelude to cold war". this is book tv and c-span2. >> every weekend book tv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> it was almost two years ago when i decided it was time to write a fact-based primer on gay-rights, specifically targeted to right of center voters. has the subtitle of the

it is a soviet union. what is that? it was of big things back then before toppled most of us had never considered iraq of saddam hussein but winning was a foregone conclusion and terrorism took us by subplot -- surprise. we thought they were rabble rouser is. the bin laden construction company how is that for irony? >> but after that things change with the world trade center bombing and september september 11th i was flying that morning. coming in from another rotation and september 10th was our first day back. essentially flying and i had come down nearly and somebody said you have to look at this. i thought what moron of the pilot could hit the tower of that size on a clear day? i thought it was an accident. then the second plane hit they sent us up to close down the airspace of the united states. that is eerie as the pilot. "o.o.p.s." is the name of the book. stephen frantzich is a professor at the u.s. naval academy and is the author. what does that stand for? >> of serving our politicians stumble. i said i need to

i might add when people thought there was no chance the soviet union would open its doors. and now it's a stunning celebration, really, of the fact that more than a million jews were freed from the soviet union, many who came to our community and today are actively involved including in our own organization. that was a highlight, including many important points, the shaw came to san francisco and spoke at a rally with thousands of people directly in front of the soviet consulate. i think about the work we did with the survivor community, holocaust survivors, who after the holocaust wanted to be sure that every effort would be expended to perpetuate the memory and lessons of the holocaust. i think about the establishment in san francisco of the holocaust center and the holocaust memorial and our annual holocaust remembrance observance, as three ways to make sure that that legacy was preserved, another highlight. then i think of our work on hot issues that are merged even as recently as last year when there was an attempt to put on the ballot that would attempt to ban circumc

even the great expanses of rich agricultural soils that blanket china and the soviet union, canada andhe united states owe their existence to glaciers. moving glacial ice pulverizes the underlying rock into silt-sized fragments. this silt was eventually transported and concentrated by the wind into the vast fertile soils of today. early scientists didn't really appreciate the important geological role of glaciers. even geologists were convinced that glaciers had never existed

have a lot of use for history but the history is quite simple in the twenty one years since the soviet union did in one thousand nine hundred one in the relationship between washington and moscow all the concessions have been made by moscow. moscow his research has received nothing of significance in return now if our viewers say that can't be i invite your viewers to think of one major concession that washington has made to moscow now let's go to the parish troika to be reset peri's our group the reset between obama and present been some of that you need to read but they have even like to carry around with them i mean showing them to the cab well it began that they didn't at the americans misspelled the word for recent from the beginning but now let's be very careful analytical about this obama wanted from it get washington wanted from moscow some very persistent fix things specific things it wanted moscow to support sanctions against around correct moscow did that correct. washington wanted moscow to permit supplying nato troops fighting in afghanistan afghanistan over and through russia t

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it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades if you're curious western children. i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local server near shops so between married bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians doing your show but you can't buy the rubbles there on the ground you are the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like bond. should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on as this time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has bec

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. >> and here is the former soviet union's once formidable air fleet and what remains when a pilot recently discovered a decommissioned plant on an airfield in siberia and it was about to be scrapped. >> at the restored it twin- engine is one of a few of the types still capable of flight and the new owner has big plans. >> prepare a for takeoff. 1950's style. turning the propeller by hand to ensure the distribution of engine oil. in the cockpit, the throttle controls are checked and then ready to go. the old twin vote engine and could actually take to the air now, but this is a dry run. >> did you hear that engine sputtering? in these temperatures coming any day hereunder the engine to warm them up. >> this plan is 53 years old and still probably bears the soviet union subscriptions. it originated in saxony. today, the crew is a group of retired pilots from st. petersburg. they have all had a long love affair with flying and with this plane. >> i saved her and i fulfilled my own dream. now we are doing her up again and we want to take her to her native and resident. i believe that is a drea

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helped pressure countries to change their restrictive immigration policies and in the case of soviet union, to allow the immigration of soviet jews and many other groups previously precluded from leaving to go to the united states, to israel, and other countries. we continue to have very serious concerns about human rights situation in russia, but as the specific root causes of jackson-vanik no longer exists, it has been waived for russia every year since 1989. the important piece of legislation we are considering today repeals the jackson-vanik amendment with respect to russia and moldova, grants russia permanent normal trade relations, and includes an important new provision to address human rights violations in russia. adherence to accepted standards of both trade and human rights are important to america and to a fruitful u.s.-russia relationship. russia joins the w.t.o. in august of this year, and is now subject to w.t.o. fair trade disciplines and dispute resolution procedures. enactment of this bill is necessary for u.s. exporters to benefit from the w.t.o. rules and the enhanced ma

it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the same. the change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize t

picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic tradition here. i should not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the time to change even for the better is not always good for business. something that even the local band have become attuned to when they try to add more to the russian songs today repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. welcome back there's a cafe and here with our team moscow investigators have searched several homes belonging to the russian army including that of ana twenty seven duke of he's a former defense minister of. saps

billions more somewhere where it's a legal injustice i mean i mean it used to be i mean in the soviet union all was supposed to be equal now injustice is legal i mean so so i said here ok well since you since you mentioned the growing economy people say that that's in the coming years maybe five maybe seven years china will outgrow the united states and become the number one economy in the world is it true do you believe that will happen why had predictions prediction a few years ago i mean excuse me a few days ago. done by. cuba has a son of one hundred hundred i mean a hundred countries on for all he said that for pete's point if you buy at the middle of the century chinese. the g.n.p. will be bigger than the combined g.n.p. of all other countries of the world. i don't believe in that because they see it as as we know there are so many internal problems which are so so china will be will become the world's number one economy within five years so there is a chance but we're going to. know that there is a sort of. making these predictions i read one hour ago and that was a couple of days ag