In august 1 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and. To this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind americas decision to use Nuclear Weapons with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb i have no question that there were those in the us military who pursued the next its the snow here in the planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki countless books and films have off the many just of occasions for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to the arguments that the bombs were dropped not so its a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union. The 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in wall was in the city if there is steam on the 6th of august 945 well over 100000 citizens were killed those in the hype a sense of what instantly turned into dust while countless others died from the burns and high dose of radiation they received. Over 50000. 00 survivors. Still live in the city each one of them has their own story to tell of the day the bomb fell and i was on my way to meet one. Which. So i mean if you are beat up. You go have the. Sumac i just get moving around for more messages. Shes saying this is the fight i dream of. She says its not going there ok i sound. On a sound not happening the last. Bara was just a 13 year old schoolgirl that day and as i was about to find out recalling those events hasnt become any easier even after 70 years. Character or nothing out of this shell that said i knew her. Quite the way this guy are doing. Now because there are a stunning that will never pass yeah that the media. Call that the big. Straight up call in any money is so little crass that when the assassin quadruped at the net. And you quote that. Or how do you have that clear them on how you look with that pin thats going to come up. Corey del that they can reach then bill you go i gave in so real you. Know. I said. So its. Clear that there are no go there. Thing but the get go. Which. Issue. There. That is to them. So you know we must meet. Their light so we can mature. Then they are sure seem. To see me. I was happy to work we had been on a long war we had been attacked by the japanese the japanese people were not nice people and i was. The policy of the United States government at that time was to subdue the nation of japan. And i was willing to do anything i could do to help that. It was president s harry s. Truman who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb hed only been in office for a little under 4 months. A short time ago an american arab by in drought to run on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy for this but we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction that has been done is the greatest achievement of irgun i in science in history. Here yet the grandson like of the president who decided to drop the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki i think is going to see the legacy of. Ronnie one thing to go into the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of japanese people they build it up they see so who is coming out of your life because. Of course i have to see i was trying to decisions fit his personal life as i told you was the war the job of all please be enjoyed to this day because its. To be a. Teacher so yeah my wife calling us from the poison source says this must be done just to know. You noticed its the new way i felt. Did. You know. Some of it is real soldiers and is this. If you feel you in your relationship with the grandfather. Of the ghetto in some stories that you. You know of course you sociate sex i dont mean oh yeah no no no no no i know i understand completely when i was a kid yeah very annoying sometimes because youre a teenager and youre trying to figure out who you are you know and what you turn out to be for a lot of people as an adjunct to somebody else so they you know your grandfather was wonderful and i remember your grandfather and yeah yeah yeah. You know thanks. As ive gotten older know its you know theres a legacy yeah and. You do with it what you can theres a legacy to kind of boy oh i could have. Chose not to yeah i when i was in my late thirtys i kind of rediscovered my grandfather as a human being i mean i you know the history is always there. With a sense of victory in the. Already looking forward to a postwar world by the poles done conference on the 18th of july 945. American relations had been fairly good under Roosevelt Truman was an unknown quantity to stalin and this meets in ma its a turning point in relations between the allies. Truman at potsdam did indicate to stalin that we had a new weapon he did not specify what it was and he believed that stalin did not know and stalins response was nonchalant which was well i hope you used to go to fail. To ghent the enemy what we now know from a variety of sources including former soviet sources is that all the knew very well what truman was talking about through his own sources in style importance to it she did not at the melbourne but it was to sit in the midst of them ridicule anybody else they were not answering for months as i was going say is useless and throwing them at the store hes got them there wont be real so you will do that in the beginning at the last word because that is him or skin but i am a swim wish for you see what. Was in the car. Seat business is to ensure. Its own moments notice and. You can take any. Action. You can have any cares you kind of want you to stand there. Every night. And you have to go. And snatch is you and your guide. Missionary. Taniguchi was delivering mail when a 2nd plutonium bomb called 1st month fell on nagasaki kids from the blast melted the skin on his bike and left footage of his horrific injuries has become iconic assume its hero is now a living symbol of the suffering caused by the bombs. That data might. Get to. Where youre at to. Get him out of commission. Square. And certainly i think. You know. This city was in the original targets for the 2nd bomb fights one was destined for the quarter but the weather was overcast a bit like today so the boxcar b. 29 changed course and headed to a secondary target nagasaki. Just 3 days after hiroshima on the 9th of august the 2nd atomic bomb exploded with a Destructive Force of 21 killer tons of t. N. T. And killed over 70000 of the citys residents. The comprehensive fire Bombing Campaign conducted before the a bombs had left japan in ruins the u. S. Already had the country blockaded and could soar from food and fuel. Us to keep bombing survey that was done at the end of the work concluded that the japanese would have surrendered. Even if the bomb had not been used even if the invasion had not gone forward that they would have surrendered prior to november 1st which i think was the date for operational one pick the invasion of the home islands so why did the us drop the bombs thats what historians are debating and i think that truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to try to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender before the russians got in so the russians would not get all those concessions that we had promised them number one the number 2 and equally if not more important the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union. With each country looking to cause spheres of influence after the war relations between east and west were rapidly declining to a very cool realised that euclid poet equals political power on the world stage and documents from as early as 945. 00 suggest that the allies would turning against each other. In the planning actually in october of 1945 and had chosen 20 targets in russia moscow and leningrad were also included in the target list early on and as i understand it just from talking to some of the more planets designate a ground 0 was to be either the kremlin itself or it was a power plant that was very close to the kremlin as the bombs got larger they would move the designated ground 0 to a point so that it would destroy more targets just with one weapon difficult. 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Son know each is an 82 year old niggas sucky bomb survivor both he and his daughter travel around schools talking to children about the war. Sanaa uses cartoons to help him share with a younger audience his experience of the day the bomb fell with. Their. I thank you. Salute to. All and not it will be much of a. Salute to Keith Swamiji Kunle coach more god doesnt need to fight a game but what sticks did he do this. So little can. Be. Let us know who will take me. For the get it you got there must a lot. But i do mit i would not it started. Before that started it. Did need us and this of the. 2 of them on narcotic mother more looked at the kid in the muck local good morning again. We hit it still you know i must. Slow mock local you know this on well. You know much your words emits a smug sort of you so he did he any mortal. This can go away study the worst tuned or one or negate would by so were not. Enough i really must be this. 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What i dont understand is how people who have presumably studied the same documents of. Different conclusions about the bombings i dont understand it either to me its such a clear cut issue if you look at what the Us Intelligence was saying if you look at the comments of american leaders at the time in fact 6 of americas 75 star admiral generals who got their 5th star during the war record as saying that the bomb was either militarily unnecessary morally reprehensible or both you cant come to any other conclusion and that the bomb was not necessary that the soviet invasion was going to end the war that the u. S. Invasion was not going to begin till november 1st so we dropped the bomb and august 6th and august 9th intervention is not going to take place for 3 more months why do we do it why you have to conclude that we wanted to do it. Could agree to show me around the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for brings back mixed emotions terrible memories of the bomb but also happy ones from her wedding which was held in the grounds. The Hiroshima City governments to suggest that removing some of the exhibits over concerns that children find them frightening. But chilcote doesnt think theyre realistic enough. Stone rules. Or not. You want to comment on the. Study. Scott. On the back. Everything. Is. Cool you know i dont think this had some. Question in there sit out. There. Do i regret the atomic pressure and i regret we had to do it but i think we had to do it nordic and the war with a minimum loss of life if the same situation existed again exactly as then as it had back in 1945 yes i would go on i would volunteer for about some other fact i dont want to go war. Yeah a memoir with. It is its a personal its sort of the change from i you know i like most americans born in that time and growing up after the war the bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and thats what my grandfather always said was his reason for the decision to end the war and save american lives primarily but would otherwise likely be lost in an invasion of the main islands so i went from not giving it much thought at all to. Being confronted one day with with the reality that people lost their lives and in horrible ways 2. Japan is still counting the cost of the a bombs the governments makes Monthly Health care payments to the survivors to help with treatment not just for the physical effects of radiation exposure but also the psychological impacts. Many of them come to this clinic set up especially for the here in hiroshima. Clone that i knew sunday i know in fact i know qatada said to stay overnight in bassett. One day and nothing in the law or as i said moved. To spain from waterville to no quarter throw so here kyra i want to go below i thought as ive gotten to come in the next you know im got to take my city since course. Or southern afghanistan theres kid on the corner if. You are. Gonna. Get. It only try to get out. And the deal not. Given that you did something nice you know that. Goes. Out to those who have sang you. The im the one just you know. Since in 2006 kids are more to buying your p. T. S. D. They skip the more the american or 13 the more needles on the dock now your not seen are the minority in this day. Didnt pass. This kind of sort of old school yarn. Stuff written. After the war the japanese constitution was changed by the americans and its remained in place ever since including 9 which prohibits japan from having its own military. Well the country can still protect itself with its Self Defense Forces including its fleets which is poly base hit the American Naval base in your corsica. Nowhere is the american incursion more evident brita street all the haunch as its known by the sailors is just a stones throw from the naval base. Any time baby i have no idea what that means. Is the place to go if you want a native burka or to go shopping at the army surplus store. And rock city seems to be particularly popular among your cusa because foreign guests. Start the american citizen making the most of the downtime here 8. However the u. S. Base in okinawa is probably the most controversial i suppose so. Its home to 21000 Service Personnel most the morning 3 of all american soldiers based in the Asia Pacific Region and the locals want them gone. There to the end of august and wanted their mommy kind of been one of these men. Is that something im going to have. Than that oh its a death of a hiking on and they have got to get there and one of the lot that ana he has to get there how. Theyre going to stop. This war the what all of us has been in thats if get off on all of us about. You know you just i think you have all the hey i can pull it back i must and i. No i didnt miss it i thought i saw how much. I mean. And i know that it was an addict or next that i thought what i wanted to discuss incidentally most of the i guess is the. Despite the atomic bombings in japan and the United States have an amicable and close relationship today however no incumbent u. S. President has visit to tear ashima on august saki and americas yet to receive an apology for the surprise attack on pearl harbor. Truman lived until he was 88 and stood by his decision to drop the atomic bombs to the day he died. So you dont think there will be. No i dont think there will be i dont you know theres no harm in talking about it and i dont know that will ever be an apology maybe the 2 countries can find language that that that brings them together to say you know we acknowledge that serious hurt is done on both sides and we we own that and we are Going Forward it doesnt feel at this point that it will ever be a flat out apology from the u. S. To japan or the other way around i dont know that the United States has ever asked japan for an apology for pearl harbor or that they offered it so what do you think about america no no no you got the demo then this summer i guess you call the. Turning you were in a corner in a circle cap and you can let me. Know although i sound like that go to the way here. Yes not going to. Set up with the one you know 2nd we are throwing them all. Now. I can watch. For. Following the atomic bombing of 2 cities over 300000 japanese lost their lives. Plans to attack the us assad actually being carried out in which 20 cities were targeted including Population Centers like moscow leningrad and. The number of lives lost would have been in the millions. Fortunately that never happened but it did mark the start of a new era the cold war. The leader of the Lebanese Group hezbollah addresses the nation after it chews these deadly explosion in beirut he calls it an exceptional offense in that the most modern history. Any role in the tragic. International emergency crews including rescuers from russia assisting in the search for survivors in beirut 3 days after that huge explosion there are 154 deaths being confirmed and its fear that that number could rise and live reaction to all that coming up plus the chinese video sharing our particular talk ses. It may go to court for sanctions imposed by executive order by the u. S. President. Just after 8 pm here in moscow on this the 1st of august welcome to the program. The search is ongoing for survivors following choose these deadly explosion in beirut the death toll has now reached 154 people 5000 more are injured several countries including russia have sent emergency crews to the lebanese capital to assis