a top tomic bomb or ration but. but this but their numbers are dwindling and they are not going to be around for much longer in the future so they meant concern is passing the torch to the new generation and transferring their experience experiences to the next generation so that they will lead movement to a world free of nuclear weapons making sure the world it never forgets and the iranian thank you for your reporting from tokyo thank you well let's change gears and go to the formula ia lecture racing series which has held its 1st races since february here in berlin it was the 1st of 6 races in a 9 days in the german capital as organizers quickly finished the season and that the coronavirus pandemic which had been shipped leader antonio felix accost at took the checkered flag on the site of berlin's former tempelhof airport. the formula each alynda had to be overhauled because of the coronavirus crisis instead of races around the world pullin stepped up to host every round for the remainder of the season. to formu

while great lands, sea and air forces gathered for the last invasion our b-29s dropped two a tomm tomicch hastene japan and saved untold thousands of american lives. ♪ ♪ >> so the mission of our air forces which began nearly four years ago was accomplished. ♪ ♪ >> we continue now with the bombing of hiroshima japan that led to the end of world war ii. next in 1945, universal newsreel on how the atomic bomb evolved both as science and the decision to use it. that's followed by a discussion how president harry truman came to order the use of the atomic bomb during world war ii, part of what you will see every weekend during american history tv here on c-span3. >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available on c-span3. tonight a look at the uss indianapolis, in 1945, two japanese torpedos sunk the uss indianapolis in shark-infested waters. only 217 out of 1196 crew members survived. they were not rescued for several days. on the 75th anniversary, congress awarded the entire crew the congressional gold medal, its highest civilian hono

the american immigrant scientists were terrified at the prospect of hitler getting a tomic bombs. so they built the bomb as a deterrent against germany. they did not anticipate the bomb might be used against japan. because everyone knew that japan did not have the industrial or scientific capability of building a bomb during the war. this is a survey of the bombing targets. these are potential targets. but you have to remember that the united states had been firebombing japanese cities since the night of march 9 10, when we firebombed tokyo. by the end of the war, three quarters of our bombs were incendiary. overall, we bombed over 100 japanese cities. when we ran out of important major cities, we started bombing the secondary cities that had no military significance. the distraction reached 99.5% of the city. some of the american leaders were appalled. secretary of war stimpson said to president truman, i do not want the united states to get the representation for outdoing hitler in atrocities. another top general described this as one of the most ruthless and barbaric killing of

but this month marks 75 years since it tomic bombing of the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki the infamous mushroom cloud for. filmed by u.s. scientists who were company at the missions the day w. investigation has revealed that an early mixup of the footage has led to the wrong images being used for decades in t.v. reports and documentary films around the world t w s e free thoughts. these t.v. reports supposedly show the us atomic bombing of hiroshima japan 1st atomic bomb. are going to drop out of me. but none of these are the bomb they called little boy a d w investigation has revealed that media companies around the world used the wrong footage for decades to portray this historic moment until recently we also made that mistake. let's go back to that mission in 1945 harold agnew a physicist who observed both the hiroshima and nagasaki missions aboard an escort plane brought his personal camera with him and the hoover institution in california where his 16 millimeter film reels are held believes they are the only film recordings of both mushroom clouds. agnew's footage of

loss of its value people are you know already they were already down before these you know massive tomic bomb like explosion happened in the country so this could hurt the economy in the short term i think we'll have to see how quickly we can move to elections elections are really the only answer but then when it comes to elections again we can't underestimate these parties they have a little machines they have big organizational networks they have lots of money again foreign support france france has supported the i read dynasty for generations. so these parties are really tough to compete against when it comes to election and also remember that in lebanon those who are in power are not necessarily elected you know side as in the struggle leader of hezbollah is not elected so again there's power outside of the political system in this country it's quite a challenge but i think the international community needs to kind of really reckon with this idea that we want to have an independent and neutral levanon who will have a lebanon at peace and that peace again is going to be determined by

there on the tomic ngoma zation says last month's far than a town speak to facility was an act of sabotage but didn't say who was responsible government agency says authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in jus course. he was present donald trump is hoping to revive his reelection campaign at the republican national convention which kicks off on monday during the 4 day event the party will officially nominate him as its candidate for the november poll they hope to energize his supporters and woo undecided voters for an election that trumps the polls suggest trump could lose could be held at reports from the white house. for president fine large political rallies the 2020 republican national convention was supposed to be donald trump's campaign crescendo help pick a cruise toward reelection in november. but covert 19 and social distancing has dashed trump's plan to accept his party nomination of thousands of maggie a hat wearing supporters. trucks claim of creating jobs has also disappeared as thousands of businesses of closed permanently millions of people are out of work and

jazeera senior political analyst joining us live now from london by scott marr one could say on the tomic this peace was forged by leaders and desired by the people but when you wrote about this deal you said this is less a peace agreement and more an alliance can you talk to me about that. well certainly the reports from of israel is that most people are not exactly in the c.s. that was sort of kind of behind them wherever is happening with the embers and the people and the emirates have to be happy you know that's what i remember of you should have and don't few weeks ago a minister for happiness which now has gone under the ministry of community development so the iraqis don't have the choice of israelis they have to be happy because the rulers told them you must be happy and hence they are going out with class but yes as you said there's not much to celebrate aside from the fact that this is not in fact a peace deal but an alliance on the lines that's been. behind the scenes what happened to some 15 years so while the flight took 3 hours in fact dropped out of the way or the roads fro

nuclear watchdog access to 2 suspected former tomic sites leaders in iran announced it in a joint statement in tehran there with the international atomic energy agency the i.a.e.a. a president hassan rouhani there also promising to continue cooperation. is in teheran for us now just take us through this announcement 1st of all how and why . well the i.a.e.a. chief grossi has been here for 2 days now he met the head of iran's atomic agency has met with the head of the foreign ministry of odds revalue also met with president hassan rouhani and that the contentious issue were these 2 sites where it was alleged and decayed nuclear material that was used or stored from the early 2000 that one of these sites that i said had been partially demolished and the other location they said the activities that taken place efforts to sanitize that location from july 2019 onwards now iran hadn't granted access to these sites iran had issued this that these 2 sites were a part of the 2015 nuclear deal and then there was that resolution passed by the i.a.e.a. that was put forward by germany you can france dem

alliance is still there and it's probably not going to go away so it's strange but still in place it tomicmb didn't just change the political landscape but the cultural one as well. takes a look at how the deadly blast helped to form the popular culture we consume on a day to day basis. there are moments in history in our memory so powerful they have seen to our culture tragic but defining all the mushroom clouds billowing over the japanese cities. i'm not. surprised. it was only in the 1980s that color images sought by the u.s. military were possibly released to this day the material has not been shown in its entirety. but out of the unimaginable suffering royal who's a new pop culture in america the devastating release of radioactive particles change the country's take on comic books and superheroes spite of the fantastic full the incredible hulk all derived from exposure to radiation. we've never seen anything even close to your level of exposure if you survive an event like that. you're only smell better than ever steel but you know surely you can. leave it in the us atomic power was m