During a series of meetings in germany, the final doom of japan is settled by the big three and their advisors, delivering an ultimatum of unconditional surrender. The Prime Minister suffers the consequences. Swarms of b29s and Carrier Task Forces carry destruction to the japanese homeland. These are the following scenes of the final assault on japan photographed by a navy camerman. The Natural Power of the universe is harnessed in the new atomic bomb, its tremendous possibilities explained in this chart. The mightiest, most destructive bombs yet produced, such as englands terrifying grand slam weighing 11 tons are puny midgets compared to the new atomic wonder. One of the first to smash the atom, was dr. Ernest lawrence of california, inventor of the cyclotron, the atom smashing machine. With global war, the government stepped into the picture. General groves, head of the project, teamed up with the government director of science and research and dr. Richard tolman, a technological ex
He was deployed to vietnam in april of 1969 and on his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975, which, this evening, we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. And the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military strategy. He moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the Commanding Officer and later retired from the corps in 1996. Please help me in welcoming colonel Thomas Holden to the stage. [applause] colonel holden thank you. [applause] colonel holden thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. To talk to you tonight about some of my experiences and as i start, i want first to say that i want to speak on behalf of all of the marine pilots that were involved in operation frequent wind when we
Hiroshima, that has more power than 28000 tons of tnt. For this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. Its an atomic bomb, its the basic power of the universe, what has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science and history. On august 6, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of here shema japan followed by a second detonation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later japan surrendered bringing it into the second world war. I have declared the this afternoon the japanese government and the message of our government that a secondary state on august 11, i do have this reply of the top ten declaration and the unconditional. Through the work of cspan city tour, will share stories with the people that contributed to the world or altering event. We begin in new orleans as the National World war ii museum. We are here today in the road to tokyo which will take us through the were on the pacific and a
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
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