History books and images seared into our collective memory. When the u. S. Dropped atomic bombs here and on nagasaki 70 years ago, it led to the quick end of a long war. For people here and across the world, things would never be the same. We traveled here to japan to learn about the legacy of those fateful days and to look at americas continuing influence on these islands. We begin here in hiroshima and our conversations with two survivors of the atomic bomb. It was a bright day with a blue sky, hot and humid like today. What a nice day Setsuko Nakamura thurlow was 13 when the enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of hiroshima, japan. Thurlow saw a bluishwhite flash, and the walls around her came crashing down. And then i had the sensation of floating in the air. Obviously the blast just was collapsing the building. A mile and a half away, Kenji Kitagawa was at school. He was playing the organ before class when he saw the same flash. It was followed by a bang, bang. Then ca
A city known to many through history books and images seared into our collective memory. When the u. S. Dropped atomic bombs here and on nagasaki 70 years ago, it led to the quick end of a long war. For people here and across the world, things would never be the same. We traveled here to japan to learn about the legacy of those fateful days and to look at americas continuing influence on these islands. We begin here in hiroshima and our conversations with two survivors of the atomic bomb. It was a bright day with a blue sky, hot and humid like today. What a nice day Setsuko Nakamura thurlow was 13 when the enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown of hiroshima, japan. Thurlow saw a bluishwhite flash, and the walls around her came crashing down. And then i had the sensation of floating in the air. Obviously the blast just was collapsing the building. A mile and a half away, Kenji Kitagawa was at school. He was playing the organ before class when he saw the same flash. It was foll
Our joint interest is to contribute to the speediest settlement of the situation in libya, yemen, iraq and other countries of the region. We expressed the support of the further work of the strategic dialect between russia and the council of the cooperation of the arab states, the minister for foreign affairs. Already there were three rounds in the countries and to conduct next year in moscow. Russian, they have their close positions that concerns the importance of the promotion of the concept of safety with the participation of the countries of the region. We shared with our colleagues the renewed consideration of the Russian Party on the safety in the area of the gulf, taking into account the latest development, including the reaching of the agreement on the settlement of the situation regarding the Nuclear Program and including the abrupt escalation of the terrorist threat for all of us. We agreed about the time scale of the closest context, the political context for the talks on al
I think its completely crazy were doing substantive work on the 17th of december. I cant imagine were holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but thats because theres so much to talk about, and im so glad to have you all come. Thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is john hamre, im the president at csis. I wanted to say special thanks to Julio Friedmann who is a friend. We have known each other for many years. Hes fortunately in town serving in government more directly. Hes a government guy, hes out at Lawrence Livermore labs but were so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. For a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about Thomas Robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark views about the future of
If we are just being joined, were asking for your viewpoints on the tentative deal announced in switzerland a short while ago between iran and the socalled plus one countries, a deal that would see at least the goals for the Iranian Nuclear facilities and the lifting of all sanctions, that was the goal of the negotiations. How far along . We do not quite know yet. We will hear more from the president p or he will be speaking at 2 15 eastern. We will have that live for you here on cspan pair we will be taking your calls and comments. David in indiana, hi, david. Caller i welcome this agreement. As we find out more about it, we will be able to judge it at her. What we do know is this can accomplish what none of the other alternative accomplishments can accomplish great sanctions cannot do it. Military action can at most setback irans program by three years to five years while guaranteeing iran will eventually develop a bomb. A solution intrinsically verified is by far the best thing. It