Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. It has been done is the greatest achievement of organized signings science and history. , 1945, the u. S. Detonated the first atomic bomb over japan. Japanys later, surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. Have a message from the japanese government. This is a full except as of the potsdam declaration. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this world altering event. We begin in new orleans. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take up the war on the pacific and asia. Aspectshe interesting is how quickly the turning point came in. Just about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. That was a major portion of japans strength. Whatever chance that japan had disappeared in 1942. , thereally into the war big victory at midway. It is a big ocean. That is a relatively brief time. The war would go on
The summer of 1905 the war in the pacific was still raging americans were flying Bombing Missions over japan. Children took refuge in caves used as air raid shelters. On august the 9th we stayed in the bomb shelter longer than usual because wed heard of a new kind of the bomb that had just been dropped on hiroshima that. Very few on board the us bombers were aware of the weapons Destructive Force recruited to reclaim. Because federer would not feeling a martyr or want to get rid of. The thing contained plutonium rather than the uranium used in the hiroshima bomb developing it cost billions of dollars. Whats interesting about this is they had an atomic bomb. They had the hiroshima bomb but all this effort was put into the plutonium bomb so do you think all of that effort did not contribute to the use of it and nagasaki. Thats an interesting question. All these people were children back then they are the ones who are still alive and my name was even today they ask why this bomb had to be
What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science and history. On august 6, 1945, the u. S. Detonated the first clear weapon in history over the city of humor shema, followed by a second that the nation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, ringing an and to the second world war. I have received a message from the japanese government. Id and this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration. The Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of the people that contributed to this worldaltering event. We begin in new orleans. At the National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. Which will take us up through the war in the pacific and asia. One of the interesting aspects of the war in the pacific is how quickly the turning point came. The bombing of pearl harbor just december 1941. About six months later, after the japanese had run wild through the pacific, the battl
He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u