A young family in hiroshima trying to make sense of the tragedy. The cards have been winning a lot. Oh yeah, you are right. See, they have been winning the last three games. This time they won 124. Look, we are going to the ceremony today. You know . You mean people are already there and lining up . No, this is a picture of last years ceremony. It is amazing how even after the bomb was dropped, the hiroshima dome did not collapse. The night before august 6, the enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. Around 7 30 the next morning, there was a siren indicating the planes had retreated from hiroshima. All the students and teachers started to go to school. At 8 05 the teachers gathered all the students together on the playground so we could start the morning meeting. I rang the bell, and the students started to line up in front of the podium. Today, we have this modern steel podium. But then, we only had a wooden one. And i would stand on this and say good morning and say a lit
My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, 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 reserve corps. They let College Students go into it 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. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the un
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
Surrender of japan, in their reply, there is no qualification. President harry truman on august, 1940 five, announcing japans Unconditional Surrender following the u. S. Department of to atomic weapons, ending world war ii. Culminates with this event 75 years ago. In the midst of what is going on in the country, why is it significant to pause and never this event so long ago . Guest i do not know if it is significant, but it is interesting and that was enough for me. [laughter] significantsay was for me personally, because i, as the host of the sunday talk show, i live and breathe washingtons world today. And one of the joys about researching and writing and now talking about this book, has nothing to do with donald trump. I do not mean that either as praise or denigration. In this world that is highly polarized. A zerosum game, all of that. And it was kind of refreshing to go back to 1945, even though we were in the midst of world war ii. Because, susan, we were all on the same side.
Reply, there is no qualification. That is president harry truman on august, 1940 five, announcing japans Unconditional Surrender following the u. S. Department of to atomic weapons, ending world war ii. Your new book culminates with this event 75 years ago. In the midst of what is going on in the country, why is it significant to pause and never this event so long ago . Guest i do not know if it is significant, but it is interesting and that was enough for me. [laughter] you have to say was significant for me personally, because i, as the host of the sunday talk show, i live and breathe washingtons world today. And one of the joys about researching and writing and now talking about this book, has nothing to do with donald trump. I do not mean that either as praise or denigration. But, we live in this world that is highly polarized. A zerosum game, all of that. And it was kind of refreshing to go back to 1945, even though we were in the midst of world war ii. Because, susan, we were all