After the disaster. A typical residence on the outskirts of nokia sake, a mile and a half from zero point. Survivors are busy working at the restoration of their homes. This is endless man powers of work. 2 b29s. 2 atomic bombs. 2 cities. A tabulation of that record speaks for itself. Next on american artifacts to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of p roche not a sake japan we visited an exhibit at the American University museum in washington, d. C. I am the professor he of history at American University and the director of the american universities nuclear institute. I began the us the two in 1995. The institute was born in the controversy around the exhibit that would be held at the air and space museum at the Smithsonian Institute but was canceled. This was an attempt by this missoni and to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the bombing. This was the 50th anniversary in 1995. Decided with one of my students, whose mo
Trying to make this a broader human story. This one is titled floating lantern. We participate in the evening of august 6 and the floating lantern ceremony. So many of the people jumped in the river to try to escape the flames or cool their bodies that have been badly burned. Many of them died. These descriptions of the river that night, a sea of floating corpses. What people did to commemorate they hold the lantern ceremony every year. It is no longer restricted to the families of the victims. You make a paper lantern, put a candle inside and on the lantern, you write a message and you go down and take your turn and put your floating lantern into the water. It is very beautiful and night. At night. When i went, yoyo ma was playing. This is a depiction of the lanterns floating in the river. We continue now with our look back at the august 1945 atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, japan. Recently come in American History tv was at the organization of american historians annual mee
The institute was born in the midst of a controversy around the anola gay exhibit which was supposed to be held at the air and space museum, but it got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequences of the atomic bombings. This was in 1995 which was the 50th anniversary. In the midst of that, i was decided with one of my students whose grandmother survived the bombing at hiroshima, she and i decided we would do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We have two courses on campus and bringing students to hiroshima. While we were planning this, the smithsonian exhibit got canceled. The museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked if we can bring those artifacts and do the museum here. The first time the museums ever did in exhibit outside of japan. They have been doing one every year since. This is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the 70th anniversary of the original bombings,
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