Delawaret to school in i went to the university of , delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserves core. Reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. Texas. 16 weeks in they sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the university in connecticut, i had had everything they were teaching. I had already been throu
After the disaster. A typical residence on the outskirts of nokia sake, a mile and a half from zero point. Survivors are busy working at the restoration of their homes. This is endless man powers of work. 2 b29s. 2 atomic bombs. 2 cities. A tabulation of that record speaks for itself. Next on american artifacts to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of p roche not a sake japan we visited an exhibit at the American University museum in washington, d. C. I am the professor he of history at American University and the director of the american universities nuclear institute. I began the us the two in 1995. The institute was born in the controversy around the exhibit that would be held at the air and space museum at the Smithsonian Institute but was canceled. This was an attempt by this missoni and to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the bombing. This was the 50th anniversary in 1995. Decided with one of my students, whose mo