He would have upwards of 20 by the end of december. Already the Assembly Line was open. And plutonium was coming from the reactors in huge amounts at that point. And you could calculate all of these things. We needed this much, and its going to take this long to fabricate it. So he was ready for many more than just two. But he thought two would initially probably enough. But he wasnt going to stop there. And he continued to make them. Thank you. My name is kathleen sullivan, im here with the stories project. And i just would like to invite us to broaden our perspective. You know, when i look at this truemans nuclear legacy, we can also say humans nuclear legacy. I think that if one concedes that Nuclear Weapons are a weapon of war, then one does not understand what a Nuclear Weapon is. And i think while we can speak specifically about hiroshima and nagasaki, those of us at the symposium last night heard yamashita. Sedseko saying specifically that the atomic weapons used in hiroshima an
In one year later over 50 of the participating increased at least one little the grid letter grade. It is making a difference in the district and two of his principles are here to test to that. Stacey from milwaukee Valley Intermediate School and derek from milwaukee valley middle school, both of whom had courage to take part and schools have seen great growth in their kids and in their grades. Congratulations. [applause] thank you for your willingness to help our kids. This year we should fund and implement a similar mentor ship program but for teachers. Exemplary teachers struggling with it and in doing so we can make big gains. Classroom by classroom. And school by school. And if education is the most powerful tool in the life of a child we should honor and reward our best teachers and to intervene quickly to help those who need it. But we must shoes courage over comfort. The status quo is comfortable. Each teacher paid the same. Every evaluation identical with the misguided believe
This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night on cspan, native American History. Then on saturday, live allday coverage from the National Book festival science pavilion. Saturday evening, from bbc scotland, a debate on scotlands upcoming decision on whether to end its political union. Sunday, q a with judge robert catsman, chief justice of the Second Circuit court of appeals. He shares his approach to interpreting laws passed by congress. On cspan 2, friday at 8 00 p. M. , in depth with former congressman, ron paul. Then on saturday, all day live coverage of the National Book festival from the history and biograp biography pavelions. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, afterwards with william burrows, talking about his book the asteroid threat. On American History tv on cspan3 friday, a nasa documentary about the 1969 apollo 11 moon landing. Saturday, on the civil war, general William Tecumseh shermans atlanta campaign. Sunday night, a look at election laws and Supreme Court case of b
Maintain a moral purity u while a vast slaughter occurred at the rate of over 200,000 deaths a month. Isnt there a tragic dilemma here, namely which innocent lives to save. Could truman have rested at peace by prolong iing the japane domination of asia . As future anniversaries of the dropping of the bombs occur, i hope for less condemnation of trumans decision at least until the critics can specify a moral and still feasible course of action to end the war. Perhaps there might even be some empathy for the man required to make the decision and who carried the burden of his harry truman of independence, missouri, was some moral mons r monster. Those who criticize his decision would do well i think to place themselves in his shoes and ask what they might have done in his circumstance. Honest observers who refrain from analysis and criticisms will acknowledge that they were used primarily for a military purpose so as to force japans surrender and that they prove defective in inflicting de
The triple punch. Hiroshima, the soviet invasion of manchuria and nagasaki. Within 3 1 2 days, japan has to absorb these major blows. Finally, there is enough of an impact on the japanese Senior Leadership to make a difference. Its not that there had been no one in japan who was contemplating getting out of the war by surrendering up until this point. Certainly nobody did it publicly. But within high government circles, there are peace advocates, folks saying the war is lost, we need out of this. But they were outnumbered and outvoiced, outshouted in some cases, by the militarists who wanted to hold on. Battle. One more battle. If we can just inflict american casualties in one more big battle, then we can negotiate and really get something out of this war. But after hiroshima, after the invasion of manchuria and afterc nagasaki, the japanese high command finally allows the emperor essentially to step in and override, make the final decision to surrender. Theres a little bit of lastminu