A short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. It destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. On august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan. Followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing in and to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government by the secretary of on august 11th. I did this reply a full acceptance of the declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender. Through the work of cspan city store, we will share stories of the people that contributed to this world altering event. We begin
Have not yet seen. With the fighting skill which they are already aware. Im at langley, im senior director programs at the National World War Ii Museum ignored orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library and hyde park, new york. Following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive of the museum,. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. 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 honourary chairman of the board of trustees and at the harry truman president ial library and museum and independence, missouri. So today well give a great opportunity for question and answer. Please weigh in with lots of quest
I did get to know to students who had been adopted by American Families as well and their stories are in the book and i probably dont have time to share with you the whole journey, but theres some very moving moments about adoption and an American Family welcoming them into their home here as well. Maybe thats a good note to end on. Youre actually a very expert guide. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Im going to be signing books. [applause] what is your next project . I wish i knew. Inaudible conversations yeah, i can do that. Im glad you guys told me. And now we are live from savanna, georgia for the citys annual book festival. But a full day of authors ahead including ryan curtis, 1942 rose bowl was moved from california to North Carolina after pearl harbor, Scott Shapiro and the peace pact of 1928 that outlawed war around the world. Celeste headley on the importance of communication in the install in on the relationship between hitting bull and buffalo bill.
That afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Did i have the attention. Good afternoon. I like to welcome the launch of the session of the virginia session of the book on behalf of humanities. Our session is called mysteries of the cosmos could we have writers who publish recent books and most of you know the really exciting news in astronomy and physics. Can you hear me now . I think im about as close as i can get without swallowing it. Can you hear me now . I wont bother to start from the top again. You know what session we are in. We have two exciting Science Writers for you. Before we get started a couple of questions. I am a novelist and a recovering science journalists and i will be your host for the session today. Before we get started i would like to thank the city of charlottesville for sponsoring the fast close quote and provided the venue for todays session. This is being recorded for broadcast on charlottesville tv time. It will be on tv 10 on the website within the next few da
I will be there to greet them. Very exciting. Lets take you live to Andrea Mitchell live on the hill. Andrea, what can you tell us . Reporter well, the excitement, of course, is the anticipation of seeing these three prisoners, two of whom have been there for quite some time. The fact that theyre coming back with the secretary of state. On his plane, on the secret admission which was not announced in advanced. But telegraphed by the president , interestingly when he came out to break out the news on the iran deal. Were about to here from gina haspel, the nominee to be the cia director. All of this an incredibly busy 48hour period. But on north korea, the president is hoping that his success of his tweet at st. Andrews base with the secretary of state certainly signifies this is their big success so far. The question some critics would say, stephanie, whether theyre raising expectations too high and putting the president in a bargaining position when he should not be sitting down to bar