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Narrator early in 1945, our b29s began fullscale operations against japan. 1500 miles to targets and 1500 miles back to bases in saipan, tinian, and guam. Here the 21st Bomber Command concentrated their massive airpower and planned the ultimate crushing defeat of japan, down to the last bomb. Here was the beginning of the end of the road to tokyo. After six months of reoccupation, there were few signs of war along the quiet summer shores of guam. They were back in the clean, native villages. Ame...

The film from the National Archives concludes with the august 1945 atomic bombings of hiroshima and not decisive. Nagasaki. 1945, b29s began fullscale operations against japan. Target andwas the 1500 miles that. Mouse back. It concentrated its massive air power and blame the christian defeat of japan brown down to last bomb. There were few signs of war. The liberated samoans were back in their native village. American citizens smiling and friendly unaware that a miracle had happened around them....

Host send us a tweet, [video clip] send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. This is a cover story of time magazine, out this past week, marking the death of former first lady, nancy reagan, and Ronald Reagan at the 1996 convention. 1986 convention. Ted cruz taking delegates in wyoming. Marco winning the caucuses in washington, d. C. We will get your calls and comments in just a moment, the party of reagan, do you think its still alive . Heres more with donald trump as he talked about the soca...

When the ideas of existence of dark energy actually brings about that our universe could become everything we can see all this can be just a tiny little part of a much grander reality what we call multiverse. There is a picture of that perhaps. You can see the little yellow circle, thats pretty much what we can see around us. If measurement and theories are correct our own universe is infinite in time. This idea of the multiverse is all of that is but a tiny piece of a much grander reality, a mu...

World. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender and implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. Revenge, by its very nature is a sort of ratchet. Somebody commits a wrong against you. You seek revenge. They retaliate. They interpret that as a wrong. They come back. And so on and so forth. The momentum of the language of ...

Obviously a totalizing effect. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the language of total war. I talked to you about human rights. The way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total izing quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war a...

We talked about total war, mobilization of an entire population and industrial efforts as well as actual military activities, but also in terms of ideological mobilization in terms of propaganda, in terms of how you motivate a populace to go to war. There is obviously a totalizing effect. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the linkage of total war. I talked to you about human rights. The way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured eve...

British lawmakers have returned to parliament after a weeklong recess. Prime minister David Cameron took questions from members of the house of commons wednesday on a range of domestic and foreignpolicy issues. Items,bated restrict ing and the socalled bedroom tax. As opposed to taxing highvalue homes with a mansion tax. This is about 35 minutes. Water. Less chance to the Prime Minister. Mr. Jones. Number one. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I am sure the whole house will join me in condemning the sense...

Or anything . Come to think of it, should we even be trying to get in touch . Also ant program aarons here, having a big look at a u. S. Conference on cybersecurity. David, president obama is traveling to Stanford University in Silicon Valley today and hes expected to Order Companies and the government to share more information on threats from computer hackers. Some say it sounds good but the question is can this be done whilst at the same time protecting our privacy . Its midday here in london ...

Here, here. I thank my friend. On the issue of medals, which is gone on for a very long time, i am delighted to tell the house we have reached a resolution to conduct a review not just into medals in general, but to look at one of the most important cases. He has completed his work and i thank him for what he has done. More details will come from the minister of defense in the new year, including how veterans can apply. I am pleased to tell on at the arctic convoys, sir john has recommended that...