Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 it is simply a clinical description of what happened when that bomb dropped. Then im going to read you a little bit about the reaction from the enola gay when the plane was literally just diving away from the bomb having dropped it. Just to set a little background the city. There are three planes up there. One carries photographic instruments. One carries observers. The third is the enola gay which is carrying the bomb. The bomb is dropped over a teashaped bridge in the center of hiroshima, which looks from the air like fingers of an outstretched hand. A lot of rivers. And this bridge at the center. Very distinctly standing out from 30,000 feet. The bomb tumbles out of the bomb bay and it drops for 44 seconds through the air. Indeed, in tests that were done for this particular bomb design the ballistics of the bomb were very poor which meant it actually made the most terrible sound when it dropped. A lot of the scientists i spoke t
Walker talks about his boom shockwave. The story begins with the first atomic bomb in new mexico on july 16th, 1945. And documents key events leading up to the august 6th, 1945 bombing. Which the author then tribes in detail. Thanks very much. You can hear me i hope. Thank you for coming on actually the most wonderful evening in this glorious city, which my daughter has pleatly fallen in love with. And her first visit here. Its such a lovely evening. Its great you could come here and listen to Horror Stories about the atomic bomb. I want to talk to you from the heart about what this book is and what it means to me and the journey i have taken over the last two and a half years since i started the documentary. I was asked to make this documentary in april, 2003, by a friend of mine who i do everything to resist the offer to make this film. Not because the money was appalling, which was, but this is a terrifyingly difficult and complex and frightening and challenging subject to have to t
Enjoy American History tv tonight and every weekend. Next, we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit at American University in washington, d. C. This american Artifacts Program was recorded in 2015. Hi, im peter kuznick. Im professor of history at American University and director of the Nuclear Studies institute. And i began our institute back in 1995. And the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the inola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution and it got cancelled. This was an attempt to do an honest and balanced decision about the decision to drop the bomb. This was in the 1995, so this was the 50th anniversary. And in the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima, she and i decided we were going to do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. So, with goerg to teach two courses on campus plus bring students to kyoto and hiroshima. So,
Bomb test in new mexico on july 16th, 1945. Documents key events leading up to the august 6th, 1945 bombing of hiroshima, japan. The author then describes in detail. Thanks very much. You all hear me i hope. Thank you so much for coming actually the most wonderful evening in this glorious city, which my daughter, over there, has completely fallen in love with. Her first visit here. It is such a lovely evening, it is great that you all come here to listen to Horror Stories about the atomic bomb. I havent really made any notes by this because i really wanted to talk to you about the heart on what this book is and what it means to me and the journey that i have taken over the last really two and a half years since i started the documentary. I was asked to make this documentary back in april 2003 by a friend of mine who has a company in london called line television. I did Everything Possible to resist the offered to make this film. Not because the money was appalling, which it was, but ac
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