stalin did not miss it.in a message to truman the next day, he offered what he called a few corrections. he accepted the division of korea. insisted that all of the islands had to come into possession of the soviet union. but he troops in the northern part of the island to surrendered to the soviet troops. said heing, stalin hoped that his modest suggestions would not meet with any objections. truman's reply, he agreed to modify general order number one under islands would come soviet control, but he rejected stalin's request -- it was his intention, he said, that japanese forces on all the islands of japan proper surrender to general macarthur. japan was remain undivided and under american control. while there is more to be said about that, and i -- but i want you to know that truman was, h o realistic his concerns wee, we will never know but he wanted to make sure the russians would not gain a foothold in japan. but did stalin have the last laugh? on september 3, the day following the surrender ceremony ab

of stalin. stalin could do anything. stalin said ok, we can violate any laws whatever it is convenient. that is totally opposite to the behavior of the soviet union. the soviet union really adhered to the treaty. they were very, very serious about treaty obligations. stalin it prolonged -- wanted to come to the conference with that signed agreement. .e could not achieve that the final soviet negotiation continued. finally, finally, stalin just went ahead to enter the war without an agreement, which is a violation of the yalta agreement, but he gambled that once you enter the war, neither the united states nor china would raise the question. thelly, they concluded final soviet friendship and agreement. on the day, shortly after japan accepted. i disagree with him on a number of occasions. if you read my book carefully, for instance, i do not argue that the atomic bomb was used as a cold war weapon. i did not argue that japan was therefore, the atomic bomb was totally unnecessary. i did not argue

stalin, one of his few times, this is a stalin directive and he mentions why. you must not also mention the granting of any sort of stationing zone or forces in tokyo. as concerns the stationing of forces on the kuril islands, you are obliged -- according to the agreements, the kuril islands will be turned over to our ownership. that is where it is left. let me move quickly to a series of conclusions. i will let you read these for yourself. they are a distillation everything in this paper. as early as march, 1942, far more obviously in july, 1943, soviet defensive plans are increasingly offensive in nature. that is undeniable based on the operational plans. collectively, by mid-1943, if you take these plans and the locations the forces are to go to, you see nothing more and less than a framework for what will evolve in july, 1945. the only thing new is the armies sent from the west and plugged into the final plan. beginning in the fall of 1942 and accelerating rate, stolen consciously but covertly increased the strength of forces in the far east. you can see a

let's say that stalin had just said, dam the torpedoes. full speed ahead. we are going to go ahead with this plan. and they went forward. first off, how do you think that would have affected u.s. plans, etc., with the u.s. have decided well, they are our allies, we send the u.s. fleet in two support them? : that would have been such a bizarre decision on in's partrt -- on stal that i can't imagine that he would. john made a funny clip about that at one time. macarthur would probably say to them.panese, spank what was it that you said? i were a member if you don't. -- remember it. correctionke a minor of the unit nomenclature? you talked about japanese marines. : i tried toeco catch myself. there were various japanese ground troops with a variety of missions. they were neither organized nor equipped like our marines. they were special naval landing forces and a variety of base forces. they were part of the navy, not like the marines. : what i wouldo draw people's attention to in they are the- units that were in manila, they were very much along the lines of

stalin said, yeah, that is good. even though the soviets were off the stage until the very last few days of the war, it loomed large in roosevelt's thinking. he did not get to execute a strategy, but he laid the found work -- foundation. meanwhile, as of april, may of 1945, preparations were in place for invasion in the autumn of 1945. at that point, roosevelt dies. >> [applause] mr. perry: ready to take questions. i don't think we have a microphone, but if you say the question, i will repeat the question. >> could you talk a little bit about what they were saying about the weather? mr. perry: the weather is -- it a question ofe summer fog and winter storms. so the optimum times are early spring, like may or june, or perhaps october, november. and obviously, there is a lot of snow in the winter. so if you invaded later in the year, october, that would hold you back from building databases you want. clearly, the abdomen time to invade is the spring. -- the optimum time to invade is the spring. >> [indiscernible] fly i

stalin will be in the japanese war by august 15. he writes home to his wife the next and says the russians are coming in, the war will end a year sooner. think of all the boys who won't be killed. he says the japanese are trying to surrender. he describes the intercepted telegram as the telegram from the japanese emperor asking for peace. they all knew the japanese were finished. american intelligence reported repeatedly that the entry of the soviet union into the war will convince all japanese that complete defeat is inevitable. the question is, why truman who is not bloodthirsty that she did not take pleasure in killing people. why would he use the atomic bomb knowing they were not militarily necessary? what we assume mass historians is that a big part of his motivation was that he was sending a message to the soviets. if the soviets interfered with american plans in europe or in asia, this is the fate they would get. the soviets interpreted it that way. suddenly, the day of judgment was tomorrow. it has been ever since. that is t

stalin convinced the chinese to supply land support if it would come to that pass. the soviet air force flew. we thought of perhaps in certain circumstances there was extensive discussion whether we would use "tactical nuclear weapons" which in those days were not very tactical. if you don't think that's real, i'm sorry, i don't live in your world. >> just to make it an even three. i just want to ask going on because the idea of the korean war as a catalyst and particularly to the degree that it struck the imagination about a potential world war iii, did the fact that -- and i'm saying this because going back to berlin and greece and some of the other early events that we generally consider cold war, there was no contemplation of using atomic weapons and that what i'm suggesting and would like you to comment on is that in suggesting or contemplating using atomic weapons in korea it really brought back the deepest fears of world war ii. >> okay, so, yeah thank you very much for giving me a very candid opini straightforward opinion. the first one. of course degree --

stalin's 70th birthday. between mao and stalin is the east german leader. mao and stalin had political wills on that occasion but basically mao refusing to leave until stalin agreed to talk and to talk seriously about the relationship with china. but for two countries supposedly communist supposedly allies it was a very edgy and called for relationship. c-span: go back to that time. back when things started to coalesce at the point when chiang kai-shek was ahead of the nationalist in china. how many people were under his control? >> guest: at that depends on when you are talking about. in the early days chiang kai-shek i wonder if padilla lost china and the answer of course is the analogy, corruption and no real vision of where he was taking the country. but he had almost everything. you know by 1930 chiang kai-shek one control of all of china except for a few very small red spots which were communist based areas so called because this was where the communist army, armies and they were very small. there were a few thousand men, that's all would carry out sp

stalin convinced the chinese to supply land support if it would come to that pass. the soviet air force flew. we thought of perhaps in certain circumstances there was extensive discussion whether we would use "tactical nuclear weapons" which in those days were not very tactical. if you don't think that's real, i'm sorry, i don't live in your world. >> just to make it an even three. i just want to ask going on because the idea of the korean war as a catalyst and particularly to the degree that it struck the imagination about a potential world war iii, did the fact that -- and i'm saying this because going back to berlin and greece and some of the other early events that we generally consider cold war, there was no contemplation of using atomic weapons and that what i'm suggesting and would like you to comment on is that in suggesting or contemplating using atomic weapons in korea it really brought back the deepest fears of world war ii. >> okay, so, yeah thank you very much for giving me a very candid opini straightforward opinion. the first one. of course degree --

stalin was dead. kruschev had taken over, and there was a period known as the thaw which was really a period of optimism. many young people thought despite the horrible things that had happened to the country in the last few decades, maybe there was a better life ahead. in 1965 tolkachev and his wife, natasha, had a baby son, oleg, their only child. but in the late 1960s, working at this radar institute, tolkachev began the feel things weren't quite right. he began to get disenchanted with what was happening around him. trawl, hope -- first of all, hopes for the thaw came to a crashing end. especially with the soviet invasion of czechoslovakia in 1968, crushing the democracy movement known as the prague spring. in natasha's department, the antenna department, they had kind of a pro forma vote one day, how many people in the department supported the soviet invasion of czechoslovakia, and, of course, you can imagine in a soviet police state, you were supposed to raise your hand yes. natasha was the only

at your in february 45 roosevelt finally got a promise from stalin that three months after the end of the war in europe, truman said he would to potsdam in july to meet with winston churchill and stalin. he wanted to make sure that the soviets were coming in. he gets the agreement from the soviets. he writes in his journal that end the warn will by thursday. he said the russians are coming in. the war will end soon though. truman also knew the japanese were trying to surrender. the intercepted july 8 telegram as the telegram from the emperor asking for peace. we all knew the japanese were finished. american intelligence reported repeatedly that the entry of the , left union into the war complete defeat inevitable. , truman who is not bloodthirsty, he is not hitler, he did not take pleasure in killing people, why would truman use the atomic bomb knowing that the japanese were defeated? knowing that they were not militarily necessary? historians is, as that a big part of his motivation was that he was sending a message to the soviets , and if the soviets interfered with american plants

. >> stalin and roosevelt and churchill were an uneasy alliance during the war. among the three, who was the best negotiator and who achieved most of his diplomatic objectives by the end of the war? rick atkinson: they were all three pretty titanic personalities. the record strongly underlies the conclusion that it was roosevelt that achieved more of his objectives and morsi early than any -- more securely than any of the other victory. churchhill won the war but the british empire has never been the same since. and central europe and stalin achieved a lot of things in eastern and central europe and consolidated his hold but fell short of the grandest ambitions in the leninist-stalinist tradition. roosevelt kept his country secure, secured western europe, began the process of the decolonization of asia and africa within less than a generation. all of these long-standing u.s. foreign-policy objectives even before franklin roosevelt. he would be my nominee. rick atkinson: it depends on part on whether you are looking at the ambitions of the three through the whole

about our test, we were told, yes, truman had mentioned it and stalin had reacted -- he did not in a noncommittal way. >> because he already knew. >> he already knew. >> after the successful test at trinity, the man who began what became the manhattan project was concerned that the weapon, which was made to stop hitler, should not be used. he and other scientists felt it should be demonstrated to japan to encourage them to surrender. he started a petition among the scientists to appeal to the president to consider alternative plans. >> even before the test, sometime i believe end of june, i got a letter from a very good friend, leo, whom i had driven to see einstein at the time and he signed the letter that got things going. and he had circulated a petition. that the bomb should not be dropped. before the japanese were first notified. would i please sign it and circulate it in los alamos? he was in chicago. i wanted to sign it. but i felt i could not circulate it without showing it to oppenheimer. that i did. and oppenheimer got very excited. that is completely wrong. we scientists h

potsdam even as they laid the foundation for a stable european peace, harry truman and joseph stalin had decided on common action against japan. insia joined the alliance war on the last remaining axis enemy. japan's stronghold in manchuria was attacked. for emperor here is eco-and japanese militarism, the war was lost. japan sued for peace. in washington, the secretary of war and secretary of state hurried to the white house with the secretary of the navy. the united states cabinet meeting with president truman studied japan's surrender messages in full coordination with the government of britain, china, russia, and other allies. the world remembers frequent eleanor roosevelt. years of grave responsibility took their toll. a grateful world honors him today. douglas macarthur named supreme allied commander in japan. china,der of fighting the commander of the mighty pacific fleet. harry truman, four months after taking over as president, leads his country to victory and peace. mr. truman and his cabinet meet in emergency session. secretary was on hand as the president breaks the momen

my brother was born and raised under stalin. okay. television at that time was nonexistent. but the level of propaganda, she's still in moscow. she keeps telling me that even her mind, you know, is suffering from this 24/7, you know, brutal attacks. transmissions full of hatred, you know? describing the rest of the world as an absolute evil that is threatening here russia. so the country is being surrounded by enemies, and the country is under siege, and we just have to, we just have to protect the country which means, you know, everything government does is about criticism. it's difficult even for people that -- because you can't imagine that propaganda could be can lying totally. it's like george orwell, you know, freedom is slavery, war is peace. white is black. so they created a mechanism that probably was never seen before that paralyzed the hinds of millions and millions of -- the minds of millions and millions of russians, and this poison may stay for quite a while before country can go back to norm. >> host: so your mother is still living in has cow. >> guest: yeah,

discusses joseph stalin and the soviet union in the pacific war. and politics posted this event. david: thank you for this invitation. i began my work on the soviet army,

his wife had been deported to the gulag during stalin's purges prior to the german occupation. and, you know, as in families, those stories are not ones you tend to pick apart. you accept them. but there came a time in my life, and i think in part the passing of my dad, in part having an amazing adopted stepdaughter who's from a country where it's very difficult to find your birth parents and ask them questions. when i thought to myself, you know, if i have questions, i need to ask of my one remaining parent, this is the time. so we sat down over coffee, and i began to ask her questions about her mother, her father and the conversation evolved into this discovery. and i have to say that, you know, i -- as soon as she told me about his -- she didn't use the word "collaboration," of course, i felt, you know, all this, it's taken me all this time to ask. i was stunned, you know, at my own reluctance to open that door. and i think that's not an uncommon experience. many people feel that way. >> host: did your mother feel relief at telling you this? was there shame involved? was it

m, even as they laid the foundation for a stable stalin and harry truman had decided on a united action, russia joined the alliance. japan's stronghold in manchuria was attacks. -- was attacked. to, the war hirohi was lost. in washington secretary warren simpson hurried to the white house with secretary of navy forrester. the united states, meeting with president truman, studied japan's surrender message. the world remembers franklin delano roosevelt, commander-in-chief. years of brave responsibility took their toll. a grateful world honor some today. -- a grateful world honors him today. douglas macarthur, leader of the pacific armies, now named supreme alliance commander in japan. , leader of china. commander of the mighty pacific fleet. truman, taking oath as president, leads his country finally to victory and peace. mr. truman and his cabinet meet in emergency session. ll is ony held -- hu hand as the president breaks the news of japan's surrender. >> i have received this afternoon and message from the japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the s

it was there trotsky was murdered with an ice pick on stalin's orders.his is an historian, a trotsky expert and follower. >> trotsky wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we should be upset said the state of this beautiful mansion. trotsky did consider coming back in a letter to turkish authorities. he said upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back and saw it in this state he would be saddened. >> it has changed little since trotsky has been here. cars are banned but elsewhere in the world, life has moved on. like the political philosophy he championed trotsky's house could soon just disappear. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >> and rochelle carey, new york. york. >> this is al jazeera america, i'm del walters. three americans who stopped a suspected terrorist attack in europe. they even got a call from president obama. >>> wildfires continue across the midwest and west. they get little help. >> i can't do it together. >> bernie sanders rallies supporters in the gop of south carolina. >>> two women pass the army ranger training course, but not al

it was there trotsky was murdered with an ice pick under stalin's orders. >> translator: trotsky wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we however should be upsettle at the statupset atthe state of thl mansion. the turkish authority, had a letter that said upon my return. to see it in this state. >> it has changed little since trotsky was here. elsewhere in the world life has moved on. like the political philosophy he championed, trotsky's house will soon just disappear. bernard smith, al jazeera, the ukada island, istanbul. >> all the news on our website, there it is on our screen, aljazeera.com. . >> an "america tonight". a look at the world of weed. what the dutch warned could be a problem in the states. that's a side effect. that's not what people want

. >> you stalin times square everywhere but i tell you this, bill brown and when joel school saying get rid of that pedestrian ball, we don't need those that tourists from nebraska and iowa who think that salad is potato salad or macaroni salad. they save for a lifetime to come to the pedestrian mall and a sitting there and won't move. or tours for red china, not our china, taiwan and germany. i believe in the bill bratton approach, bringing the bulldozers in, get rid of this pedestrian mall, get rid of superheros and cartoon characters. antwan: the root cookie monster. >> and those other women or illegal women to live in new jersey, if trump was there he would be carting them and deporting some south of the mexican border. you know what upsets me so much? when i go to times square with my son. antwan: their right in front of toys r us. >> they get mad at me because they think i am competing with them so they start yelling at me, get out of here, we got to earn some:. juliet: i had two sets of friends come from out-of-town, from kansas and arizona. they both book hotels in times square.

they see russian president vladimir putin on a par with hitler and stalin.ukhov has launched a campaign on the internet called "stop fascism in russia." herman obukhov: this guy and this guy have killed millions and millions of people. putin probably did not kill millions, but it is still blood. since he took power, hundreds and thousands. chechnya and now in ukraine, it is already thousands. >> they make it clear they see putin as the aggressor. herman obukhov: this is from mortar. this is from artillery. it's heavy. this is from a tank. >> arms and ammunition left behind by pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine. manufactured in russia. the photos show their deadly force. as evening falls in kiev, obukhov meets some of his fellow dissidents at the urban beach. among them, yuri melnichuk. the tattoo on his arm says putin is a thief. yuri melnichuk, exiled dissident: unfortunately, i don't see any forces in russia today that could change anything. people like us realize that elections won't lead to change there. this regime has to be toppled. >> by a revoluti

it was there trotsky was murdered with an ice pick on stalin's orders. historian, trotsky expert, and follower. >> translator: trotsky wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we, however, should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. trotsky did consider coming back. ? a letter to turkish authorities he quits, upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back and saw it in this state, he would be saddened. >> reporter: but the area has changed little since trotsky was here. cars are banned, but elsewhere in the world, life has moved on. like the political philosophy he championed, trotsky's house could soon just disappear. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> and just a quick reminder you can always catch up with all of the stories we're covering by checking out our website, aljazeera.com. more details there of the situation on the greece macedonia border and plenty more. aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> wall street in the middle of another big selloff as global markets tumble. >>> new evacuations in the northwest as fires spread faster than crews can contain

and he was here before traveling to mexico and it was there he was murdered with an ice pick on stalin'she is a historian and expert and follower. >> translator: he was not the kind of person to get sad. we however should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. he did consider coming back in a letter to turkish authorities when he left he writes upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back and saw it in this state he would be saddened. >> reporter: and it has changed little since he was here and cars are ban but elsewhere in the world life has moved on like the political philosophy he championed, his house could soon just disappear. bernard smith, the island in istanbul. >>> much more on our website of course, al jazeera.com. >> a plea for help at wildfires burn more ground in the northwest and more are ordered to evacuate. now international crews are headed into assist. >> markets tumbled after wall street's big selloff. uncertainty spooks investors. president obama reassures fellow democrats in hopes of securing a nuclear deal with iran.

go ahead and negotiate the end of the second world war in his big three sum mitts with churchill, stalin and have to know more about what's going on. in fact, when truman comes into power or comes into the office by this point in 1945, we are getting fairly close to creating a deliverable bomb. and an infusion of some scientific knowledge from german scientists brought over soon after the end of the war in 1945, helps us get to the point where by july 1945 the united states believes they're ready to test. now truman is involved. truman wants to know. because we are fighting a war in the pacific theater. we talked about island hopping the other day. there were less and less islands to hop. we're getting closer and closer and closer to the japanese home islands. and the action, the fighting. combat as bad as it ever was in the first place is getting increasingly worse. we have the introduction of kamikazes and stuff we talked about. we believe the home invasion of japan will be probably the costliest campaign in military history. we're afraid for that reality. but we're preparing for that

he is known for his biographies of lenin, stalin and trotsky. his latest book is the end of cold war which is the subject of today's conversation. >> i would have brought a copy down but it is about this pic. >> anyway come you can see the favor. the cover. we have have a distinguished fellow at the hoover institution. the secretary is the distinguished public servant having served as the secretary budget director. today's discussion focuses on his years as secretary of state under ronald reagan. the professor will begin with some short remarks after which he and the secretary will engage in a conversation about the end of the cold war. this event is being filmed for later broadcast so we should finish up around one time to attend. i will interrupt unless we've already gone into open discussions so that we will have ten or 15 minutes for q-and-a. let's give a warm welcome to robert. [applause] >> it goes without saying that i should say it anyway it is a massive owner to be able to share ideas with the maker of history such as secretary shultz t

. >> speaking of blighted landscapes in the communist world, in many of the major cities under stalin, they would build a palace of wul temperature which was always in hideous taste and very uncultured. the standing joke always was the best view in town was from the palace of culture. why is that? because it's the only place in town where you can't see the palace of culture. getting back to the oil and energy, it's interesting. even though we have a passive engaged present, we are not the leading free world we used to be. but the saudis are doing today what they did back then. it's not a coincidence that just now the gas prices went up. also our industry with little help from the government has boosted production. but the saudis are keeping oil prices down because they don't like mr. putin, either. mr. putin temporarily has done these things like invading, an exing crimea and inviting unofficially parts of the ukraine. they've rallied temporarily. but i am reminded, mr. putin in a curious way is behaving like a greek colonel from the 1970s. he's doing something that's temporarily boos

it was there trotsky was murdered with an ice pick, on stalin's orders. >> trotsky was not the kind of person to get upset. but we should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. trotsky did consider coming back. he writes upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back and saw it in this state he would be saddened. >> they have changed little list trotsky. but elsewhere in the world life has moved on. trotsky's house soon will disappear. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >> coming up for you on al jazeera. >> welcome, welcome. enjoy. >> could it really be that bad? the theme park disneyland opens its doors to the public. >>> and in sport a bonus for one golfer on the european tour. >> welcome back. now the british street artists banksy has unveiled his first major show in six years. converting an open swimming pool into an installation called dismal land. >> the castle looks vaguely familiar. the attractions are reminiscent of the british seaside. but the creators say that this is a family theme park unsuitable for children, and the themes there tweak the comic and are thought

the british predicted so it took a lot of pushing and shoving the with the help of dictator joseph stalin and roosevelt in the ward chiefs convince the british to go along with the invasion of france and everybody knew who with the bat invasion it was general marshall. roosevelt had more or less let everybody know that marshall would be his choice and told general eisenhower he wanted to give george marshall a chance to go into the history books as a great war leader. the other chief, considered marshall to a valuable to this to any theater marshall was the best man they had to work with congress to negotiate with the navy to do so many other things that nobody else could do. so all three chiefs went separate to roosevelt to keep stateside and even the admiral did something that was completely out of character for him by going to a group of journalists and ask them to have the editorial boards to extol his virtues as chief of staff. . . i. >> with the invasion of normandy on d-day this guy was cast in europe, eisenhower manage the war there and while king and marshall had to fight to keep

so not to follow leaders, if you don't have a leader that leads you in that direction, like stalin did, it's all the end. all those ends don't work. you should use your head and there should never be any kind of holocaust against blacks, against whites. you know, i don't see no color. i work with everybody. the first time i saw a black man in my life is when i was liberated from the concentration camps. i never -- i only heard in the group and saw the picture. now i see a truck driver, soldier. and guess what? as a young kid i see another one, no gun. i see another one come november and asked, believe that guns in detroit. know, they don't have no guns. they have no guns. so the germans would kill them and they can't tell the germans? is that right? so i found out that is wrong, too. but these are like but whatever, he should have a gun like the white one. what's better? to me it doesn't make any difference. that's what they me about your fortune is very good, but there's got to be people who don't follow leaders who are going in the wrong direction. thank you. [applause] >> my name is

september 1937, the middle of stalin's purges, enemies are perceived everywhere.natasha's mother was accused of being a subversive and she was shot. natasha's father was scared. he ran to a friends house and hid in his friend apartment for a week. her father was a newspaper editor, editor of the party news paper. a week later, he too was arrested and to the for years. when this happened, natasha was only two years old. you can imagine how terrible it must to bed. one night her parents just disappeared and her world turned upside down. she grew up in the war years and after at an orphanage. her father was finally released in the good luck, back from the camps and was still so frightened he didn't come to moscow right away but when he fell to a safe he found his daughter and told her everything that had happened to their family and then he died just shortly thereafter. when natasha was a young women, she met and married adolf tolkachev. this 30s, she was 22 and being seen to be getting better for them. 1957 was the year of sputnik. thanks for the soviet union seemed

it was there trotsky was murdered with an ice pick on stalin's orders.historian, trotsky expert, and follower. >> translator: trotsky wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we, however, should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. trotsky it seems did consider coming back in a letter to turkish authorities he writes upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back, and saw it in this state, he would be saddened. >> reporter: this area has changed little since trotsky was here. cars are banned. but elsewhere in the world, life has moved on. like the political philosophy he championed, trotsky's house could soon just disappear. >>> time for the sports news. here is andy. >> thank you so much martine. outgoing world athletics boss says his sport sill has credibility despite widespread doping allegations. describing reports that the iaaf tried to hide reports of positive tests as sensational journalism. sarah coats reports. >> reporter: the final hours before a world championships outside of the olympics, there's no bigger stage for an athlete to perfo

go ahead and negotiate the end of the second world war in his big three sum mitts with churchill, stalin and have to know more about what's going on. in fact, when truman comes into power or comes into the office by this point in 1945, we are getting fairly close to creating a deliverable bomb. and an infusion of some scientific knowledge from german scientists brought over soon after the end of the war in 1945, helps us get to the point where by july 1945 the united states believes they're ready to test. now truman is involved. truman wants to know. because we are fighting a war in the pacific theater. we talked about island hopping the other day. there were less and less islands to hop. we're getting closer and closer and closer to the japanese home islands. and the action, the fighting. combat as bad as it ever was in the first place is getting increasingly worse. we have the introduction of kamikazes and stuff we talked about. we believe the home invasion of japan will be probably the costliest campaign in military history. we're afraid for that reality. but we're preparing for that

. >> he is like the stalin of modern day politics. the greatest golfer, the greatest baseball player. >> the real sort of like concept you'll bed rock to me here, there is this old political thesis. it is all about the fact that parties, party establishments choose nominees. and there is a question about whether that is breaking down. it is bob dole and then mccain and romney. is it breaking down now? >> that's the big question. there have been a few moments where we thought in the past that it was breaking down. howard dean was a moment. >> and it snapped right back. this is the book most serious threat that we've seen to this process yet. whoever the people are who are controlling it, they are completely out to sea with this trump thing. they don't have a back channel way to get in touch with him. especially you see carson is rising to the polls. and fiorina. it is a genuinely interesting phenomenon. thank you very much. welcome back. >>> a quick reminder, the true battles haven't even started yet. and later, a negative vanlt fair p

it was there that he was murdered with an ice pick on stalin's orders.s is an historian, expert, and follower. >> translator: he wasn't the kind of person to get sad. we should be upset at the state of this beautiful mansion. he did consider coming back. in a letter to turkish authorities he writes upon my return. i'm sure if he did come back, and saw it in this state, he would be saddened. >> reporter: but it has changed little since he was here. cars are banned. but elsewhere in the world, life has moved on, like the political philosophy he championed his house could soon just disapp. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> we have lots more to come here on al jazeera, so don't go away. ♪ >> 10 years after hurricane katrina. >> it was like a nuclear bomb had gone off - everything smelt like dead bodies. >> one constant. >> music has been the essence of this city. >> inspires a community to rebuild its city. >> we gonna bring this city back one note at a time. >> and overcome hard times in the big easy. >> we are bigger, we're better, we're stronger. [

at potts dam, even as they laid the foundation for a stable andpean bees, harry truman joseph stalin had decided on common action against japan. as agreed at yalta, russia joined the allies in war on the last remaining active enemy. make sure it was attacked. manchuria was attacked. the war was lost, japan sued for peace. warashington, secretary of and secretary of state hurried to the white house with the secretary of the navy. the u.s. cabinet meeting with president truman study japan's surrender messages, in full ordination with the government of britain, china, russia, and other allies. franklin delano roosevelt was remember. years of grave responsibility to their toll. oh grateful world honors him today. douglas macarthur, now named supreme allied commander in japan. nimitz,i-shek, chester commander of the mighty pacific fleet. truman, four months after taking oath as president, leads his country finally to victory and peace. mr. truman and his cabinet meet an emergency session. the president breaks the momentous news of japan's surrender. >> that have received this afternoon a

is true there are still a few genocides, nothing like the holocaust with the tragedies of mao and stalinpol pot and so on. those are anomalies even though they are still bad things. isys is bad, but tiny compared to what someone a century ago would've done. getting a handle on the bad guys. all progress is two steps forward and one step back. if you are pessimistic have no trouble finding evidence for pessimism. take the things really are getting better. >> obtaining your lapel was a skeptic. >> skeptic is the name of my magazine. on the publisher. there are a lot of meds. skepticism 101. the look for evidence. the great enlightenment adam smith, david hume started the movement. >> a lot of people. >> yes. i would throw them in there absolutely. absolutely. >> the moral arc is the name of the book. justice and freedom. here is the cover. >> on saturday september 5 life from our nation's capitol for the 15th annual national book festival followed on sunday with life-and-death program former 2nd lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute when cheney. book tv on c-span2. >>