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Coming up, American History tv on cspan 3 looks at the dropping of the atomic bomb during world war ii. Next grant weller teaching a class on american and japanese strategies leading up to the dropping of the bomb. Then a debate on president trumans decision to use the atomic bomb. Later president trumans zbroond join survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki to consider the legacy of the atomic bombs. Next u. S. Air force Academy History professor grant weller teaches a class on americas use of the atomic bombs against japan at the end of world war ii and examines japanese social and political atti...

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 t...

of war. but first, here's my take. the obama administration's warning about a possible al qaeda plot against american interests in the middle east has triggered a volley of attacks back home. for those who always suspected president obama was somehow soft in fighting the war on terror, this was vindication. the weekly standard, fox news, the wall street journal editorialists all piled on saying that the president had claimed al qaeda had been decimated -- >> al qaeda is on the run and we got bin laden. >> but this terror warning proved him wrong. now, in part the administration has...

0 the union. i'm candy crowley in washington. head to cnn gaum.com/sotu for analysis and extras. stay with cnn throughout the day for updates on the rescue of hannah anderson. "fareed zakaria gps" starts next. this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. on today's show, first up is al qaeda back? or were the embassy closures and the terror alert misguided? we'll take a look at those questions and examine al qaeda's new stronghold. and we'll ask the last man to try to achieve peace in the middle east whether t...

mesa, arizona. it's all one big happy family, but he's actually from oregon, and here's a few interesting things about barrett by way of introduction. he was first published at the age of 15, he's written 45 books or possibly more, but the figure that really blows me away is 600 magazine articles. wow. what do you do, write in your sleep? [laughter] >> well, i've been told that i laugh in my sleep, so writing would probably fit in as well. >> with awesome. in any case, his works of fiction include collaborations with best-selling authors harold coyle and steven coons, and he's won a ...