Of its 90,000 buildings, over 60,000 were demolished. The desolate remains were aptly described as vapor and ashes. Man had torn from nature one of her innermost secrets. And with his newfound knowledge he had fashioned an instrument of annihilation. Menacing implications of this extraordinary weapon were frightening to everyday people. Frightening to everyday. What did you think of what did you think of that bomb was dropped on the japs, mrs. Glenn . Terrible. All of those people killed. Lat9 dropped an improved bomb on the seaport of nagasaki. A highly congested city boasting the best natural harbor in western kyushu. [explosion] this bomb, exploding over the district, took the lives of 42,000 persons. 39 of all of the buildings in nagasaki before the calamity. The japanese described their mutilated city as a graveyard, with not a tombstone standing. These terrifying blows were struck in japan only after profound consideration of all of the human and military factors. Dropped tobombs
Chris wallace, inker of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcast industry. He has participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and secured high profile interviews of dignitaries and leaders. He has broadcast the sunday morning show every sunday. Chris wallace is with us today to speak about his new book count town in 1945 countdown 1945 that recounts the lives of ordinary americans in japanese during the wartime and the americans and the pacific to launch a possible invasion of japan. A story how in 116 days truman goes to the Vice President to be completely cut out of the fdr white house to suddenly become the president. The story of the flight crew and others we invite you to join our view on Virtual Program with Chris Wallace and Reagan Foundation Institute Executive director. Chris wallace, congratulations. What a terrific book. As you may know guess come through the Reagan Library this is a terrific book and a historical thriller. I just loved
The end. I hope you enjoyed the presentation and im going to go right in and look at our first artifact which is actually not from july of 1945, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then we are going to look at some documents from july. You can see my time laying here of the first five documents we were going to show you. Then we will have another five to finish off what we get into august of 1945. Even some from later into the sixties. They connect to this topic. The first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter, some of you are familiar with it, is when henry stints in, the secretary of war, rights to truman to write tell him about this highly secret matter. He had mentioned this to truman after has not duration on april 12th after fdrs death. However, just in passing and that they needed to talk about it in the future. Just two weeks later, stints in sends t
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
Like the office they commemorate president ial libraries are living institutions. Certainly it is my hope that the Reagan Library will become a dynamic intellectual forum that scholars interpret the past and policymakers debate the future. Welcome to the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation institutes Virtual Event series. To fulfill the mission of making the Reagan Library dynamic intellectual forum are sent for Public Affairs Program Offers lectures presenting perspectives on important Public Policy issues of the day. Each you would bring to 2030p from politicians, office, embers of the needy, this is a military meters and more. Since the march 2020 closure of many businesses across our great country the Reagan Foundation is bringing events online to ensure were still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. 2014 mark his 50th year in the broadcasting i