This was germany, a beautiful country. A historic country. A prosperous country a modern country. The german people, a clean and tidy people. An educated people. A musical people. An industrys people. These people look all right. The mailman. The farmer, the cup, they are pretty much looking for his back home. Holding down jobs, raising families, enjoying life. They certainly look like the kind of people we can understand. Or can we . A quiet decent people who prepared 20 years to bring war into the world. A religious people who burned churches, persecute the faithful. A kindly people who accept blood purchase, concentration camps. A gentle people who tortured, starved, exterminate. These were men, they died in german concentration camps. These two were men. They didnt quite die. These bones were men, women and terminate children sent to be exterminated in a german camp. This is a scientifically designed gas chamber. This is a furnace. These, the childrens toys, carefully collected for
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
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And remembering the victims of hiroshima japan mark 75 years since the worlds 1st atomic bombing that killed 140000 people. Welcome to the program a dire humanitarian situation is coming into focus in lebanon 2 days after a large explosion tore through its capital there are concerns about Food Security after the destruction of beiruts port which is the main route for supplies coming in now the country imports up to 80 percent of its food the economy minister has warned that lebanon is not financially capable of dealing with the impact of the explosion and will lead International Help several countries are already dispatching emergency aid from suited fuel to mobile hospitals and medical personnel zealot hotter is in beirut with more on the ongoing rescue and recovery missions. Dozens remain missing Search Operations are continuing we are outside beirut court the site of the massive explosions that the steroid much of the lebanese capital the people behind me these are family members de