of hiroshima. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, a appreciate the opportunity. >>> weeknights this month we're featuring american history television programs. tonight at 8:00 eastern a look at hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii for the 75th anniversary of nagasaki. the stories of several survivors. the film also features a young family in hiroshima born after the bombing who were trying to make sense of the bombing during the 50th anniversary. enjoy american history tv tonight and every weekend. >>> next, we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit at american university in washington, d.c. this american artifacts program was recorded in 2015. >> hi, i'm peter kuznick. i'm professor of history at american university and director of the nuclear studies institute. and i began our institute back in 1995. and the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the inola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the smithsonian institution and it got cancelle

after the bomb fell on a hiroshima, august 6, 1945, the people folded paper cranes. ♪ today in hiroshima, men, women, and children are still folding paper cranes. especially children. for they are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. what's it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war? these children look like children anywhere. but the park they are playing in is called the peace park, and the monument behind them is the center dedicated to the 70,000 people known to have died from the bomb, although estimates go as high as 200,000 or more. it was 8:15 on a hot summer morning, much like this one, when that first bomb flashed the sky and destroyed the city in its flaming heat. while children play in the front of the peace museum, which bears grim testimony of what the bomb did to the first city that experienced it. when they walk home from school to the park, the children can see the atomic dome in the distance. it was once the industrial exhibition hall. now it is the only shell left standing from the atomic blast. but all children make their way to the

children's them with drawings on the elementary school and hiroshima. -- in hiroshima. that was the origin of the exhibit in 1995. 20 years later we have a more elaborate exhibit that is the most elaborate exhibit on the atomic bombings in the united states. it is overwhelming. this is one of the most famous images out of nagasaki. this is a young girl. she looks dazed. ball thatding a rice the rescue party had given her. there is blood on her face. she has a look in her eyes, a forlorn, distant gaze. she did not know what happened to her. she did not know what had occurred. some of the people who lived through the bombing, they were sure the bomb had landed on their house. saw allt out i and they of hiroshima or nagasaki was ablaze. panels see one of the called the fire, what it was like for the survivors, engulfed in flames. next to this, we have a crucifix. there are a lot of suffixes that are considered symbolic, especially nagasaki. in nagasaki, the bomb missed the original target by almost two thes and landed above cathedral. nagasaki had not been bombed before th

his group has all gun hiroshima to make their way -- all gone back to hiroshima to make their way. he says he feels apart from the children and they had never known the nightmares of children living through an atomic last -- blast. he likes to climb the hill to visit the grave. he took off his hat on request and asked if his hair looked all right from the back. he was really asking if it was long enough to hide the scars. half of his body was burned. forces himself to believe he has no radiation damage. but it's always there. city has been burned can be rebuilt, so could a man's scar tissue, but his mind cannot get rid of that. it has become an emotional condition as much as a physical. over the years he has looked out over the mainland, how he would like to forget hiroshima. on the surface it would be so easy to forget. most of its population of 450,000 is made of outsiders who rushed in to take it vantage of the frontier conditions. for 75s the rumor that years, trees and flowers would never grow again in hiroshima. they are growing. the shadow of fear it still hangs over the 90,

three days after the bombing in hiroshima. and american history and washington journal live at nine eastern. and the aftermath in the decades. ahead with richard frank, author of downfall, the end of the imperial japanese empire. and peter cosmic. we'll take your calls, texts, facebook questions and tweets. at 4 pm eastern on real america, in 1946 film. a facts of the atomic bomb on her shin and nagasaki. and 1000 cranes. documenting the origins of hiroshima's peace park. then the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference where the new president harry truman informed winston churchill of england and so joseph stalin of the soviet union about the new u.s. superweapon. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span three. next on american history tv. we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit in washington d.c.. this american artifacts program was recorded in 2015. , hi i'm peter cousin a kick. and the professor of history and director of american universities nuclear studies institute. i

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. ♪ hiroshima was instantly transfigured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. greg: in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima , and then nagasaki three days later, 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news reel team sent one or more cameramen to the two cities. and they shot footage of the aftermath, not just buildings, but survivors and victims, told the whole story. this footage was shipped back to tokyo, where it was soon suppressed by the american occupation, when they arrived in the early september. the news reel team then tried again, and they sent several lite people, actually, to hiroshima and nakasaki. and again, they shot footage, extensive footage of the next month. and then when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized. and the japanese, however, since they had been there before the americans and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans then ordered them to actually

he is like a pied piper to the children of hiroshima. the tune he plays is that everyone must work for peace in the world. each week, he and the children print a newspaper on their peace activities for their survivors and the hospitals. they also write letters to the heads of state and to the united nations pleading for universal -- this woman earns some money sewing. they met and a bible class where they struggled to find some new meaning in the disaster that had befallen their city. crippledas permanently when the blast knocked her unconscious outside of her home. she often feels weak like her mother. children, theyve have none of their own. she fears having a because of the two deformed babies born to her sister. i cannot put -- i cannot bear the risk of producing monstrosities, she says. he was outside the city when the bomb fell, but he came in immediately with a rescue team and was exposed to the radiation. the children know that he is weak, but they cannot persuade him to rest. thinking perhaps this pamphlet will be the one to con

we combined artifacts from hiroshima and nagasaki with 15 hiroshima panels. these are historic panels, and they can be compared to the rape of the sabine women or other classic paintings of that sort. this is the first time to have been to the united states anywhere since 1995. so now we brought them here and put them together with these artifacts. with children's drawings from an elementary school in hiroshima. i will explain later. that is the origin of our exhibit in 1995. now, 20 years later, we've got a more elaborate exhibit. i am pretty sure it is the most elaborate exhibit of the atomic bombing that has ever been held in the united states. it is overwhelming. i cannot tell you how many people have written to me who say they have seen it and say that it left them in two -- in tears. this is one of the most famous images out of nagasaki. this is a young girl. she is holding a rice ball a rescue party has given her. there is blood on her face, she has such a look in her eyes such a forlorn distant gaze, like so many other people, she did not know what ha

exhibit of photos at hiroshima and nagasaki -- of hiroshima and nagasaki. he saw a still from this footage. he told the organizers, i shot that. my team shot that footage. they said, what are you talking about? he said, this is footage i shot. that led the japanese to investigate. they found the color footage had all been declassified at the national archives, but no one knew about it. it was just as if it had not been declassified. launchedpanese then what is called the 10 foot campaign. you donate a certain amount of money and you can buy 10 feet of the 90,000 feet of footage. they end up getting all of the relevant footage back to japan and started making films in the early 1980's. the first time i was exposed to this was in new york in 1982, when that first japanese documentary was shown, and herbert sussen spoke. i became good friends with him. i edited a magazine called that theimes, and first article about the suppressed footage. it became a mini sensation. documentary filmmakers started to use it. so, thanks to herbert and the japanese, the footage

hiroshima. we are talking about it with the intel whose brand new book is coming out in september, twilight of the gods, war in the western pacific 1944 to 1945, the mines as they were last hour for the eastern and central time zone -- >> for those of you who are world war ii that's or family we there is another phone number. and our line for japanese americans exists as well. ian toll, one of the questions that came up a couple times in the last hour was why didn't the u.s. do some sort of demonstration of the bomb to show the japanese its power, instead of actually using it on a city? >> i think that that is a hard question. in my view, the really hard question is when it comes to the atomic bomb and not should we have used it. given the circumstances in the summer of 1945, the urgent need to end the war and to end it quickly without an invasion. in those circumstances, using the bomb i think was defensible. dropping it on a city is a different question. and i think i'm in a minority among mil

after the bomb fell on a hiroshima, august 6, 1945, the people folded paper cranes. ♪ today in hiroshima, men, women, and children are still folding paper cranes. especially children. for they are still suffering from radiation effects of the bomb. what's it like to be a child in hiroshima so many years after the war? these children look like children anywhere. the park is called the peace park, and the monument behind them is the center dedicated to the 70,000 people known to have died from the bomb. although estimates go as high as 200,000 or more. it was 8:15 on a hot summer morning much like this one, when that first bomb flashed the sky and destroyed the city in its flaming heat. while children play in front of the peace museum, which bears grim testimony of what the bomb did to the first city that experienced it. when they walk home from school to the park the children can see , the atomic dome in the distance. it was once the industrial exhibition hall. now it is the only shell left standing from the atomic blast. but all children make their way to the children's monument in the p

the second army was headquartered in hiroshima. hiroshima had been an army downgoing back to the days of the samurai. the city was not chosen for that reason. none of the four cities on the target list for the atomic bomb, those cities had not been chosen because of their military character and the military installations that were in those cities were not specified as the aiming points for the bombs. the cities were chosen because they had been relatively unscathed in conventional bombing raids and the idea was that you wanted to drop the bomb on a city that would have the topography and the conditions that would provide the greatest demonstration to the bomb's power. and so -- yes. >> finish your thought. >> yeah. it is true that there was, you know, an important army base in hiroshima. in the clip that you played from -- by president truman, upon announcing the first atomic bomb, he said we had hit an important japanese army base. hiroshima was a large city, the seventh largest city in japan, with a base in it. i think just from

i did a program with a survivor of the bombing of hiroshima. old when thears bomb exploded, she was badly burned, she came to this country in the 1950's. we were with a group of international students and when the time for questions came around, one of the students stood up and said, i am chinese. sympathy, -- you want you want understanding for the bombings, what about what the japanese military did to my people, to china? she said very quietly, we had no idea. we did not know what was going on. certainly, she did not. some japanese dent, they understood fully. you have a broad range of understanding. host: the headline we saw you from the associated press -- survivors mark the 75th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack. during your visit of 2012, what was your initial reaction of going into that peace park in hiroshima and how was your visit received by the media and the public? guest: my initial reaction in both hiroshima and nagasaki stuck, it should not have been a surprise but it was. peace parks both are like being in a church o

he is like a pied piper to the children of hiroshima. the tune he plays is that everyone must work for peace in the world. each week he and the children print a newspaper on their peace activities for the survivors in the hospitals. they also write letters to heads of states and to the united nations, pleading for universal disarmament. mrs. kawamoto earns some money sewing. they met in a bible class where they struggled to find some union in the disaster that had befallen their city. her leg was permanently crippled when the impact of the blast knocked her unconscious outside her home. like her mother, she often feels weak. although they love children, they have none of their own. she fears having them because of the two deformed babies born to her sister. i cannot take the risk of producing monda producing monstrosities, she says. he was outside the city when the bomb fell, but came in immediately with a rescue team and was exposed to the radiations. the children know that he is weak, but they cannot persuade him to rest. he keeps thin

the hiroshima bomb, 200,000 dead by 1950. the estimates for nagasaki are 70,000 dead by the end of 1945. dead by they were 1950. different kinds of bombs. here, we've got some of the more human artifacts, in a way. you've got the shoe of a young student, 13-year-old boy who was killed in the bombing. you've got the hat of a junior high school student who was killed. you have the water bottle of a young boy, 13-year-old who was killed when the bomb exploded. here, we've got one of the replicas. a replica of the lunchbox from a 12-year-old girl who totally disappeared. no trace ever found of her. carbonized rice and tea. back in 1995, if they wanted to likeenola gay visit, we suggested two artifacts. the enola gay and this lunchbox. we thought that this would send a message. that was the last thing they wanted to display. they wanted artifacts about the victims, photographs of the victims, statements by american military leaders. they did not want that controversy. here was a more historical panel. like a whole exhibit about th

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. ♪ hiroshima was instantly transfigured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. greg: in the first days after the atomic bombing of your shema and then -- hiroshima and then nagasaki three days later, 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news reel team sent one or more cameramen to the two cities. and they shot footage of the aftermath. just buildings, but survivors and victims told the whole story. this footage was shipped back to tokyo where it was soon suppressed by the american occupation when they arrived in the early september. the news reel then tried again, and they sent several people, to hiroshima and nakasaki. and again, they shot footage, extensive footage of the next month. and then when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized. and the japanese however since , they had been there before the americans, and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans then ordered them to continue their

up next, "the spirit of hiroshima." this documentary was produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the bombing and highlight the stories of several survivors and 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 12-4. >> 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 year's 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 fro

of hiroshima. we'll show you a documentary examining the august 6, 1945 atomic bombing through the stories of several survivors. the film also features a young family in hiroshima born after the bombing trying to make sense of the tragedy during the 50th anniversary. enjoy american history tv tonight and every weekend on c-span 3. >> a short time ago an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. the japanese began the war from the air at pearl harbor. they were been repaid many fold and the end is not yet. with this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. in their present form these bombs are now in production, and even more powerful bombs are in development. it is an atomic bomb. it is a harnessing of a basic power of the universe, the force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought w

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. hiroshima was instantly transfigured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. >> in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima and then nagasaki three days later, 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news reel team sent one or more cameramen to the two cities. and they shot footage of the aftermath, not just the buildings but survivors, victims told the whole story. this footage was shipped back to tokyo where it was soon suppressed by the american occupation when they arrived in early september. the news reel team then tried again, and they sent several people, elite people, actually, to hiroshima, nagasaki, and again, they shot footage, extensive footage for the next month, and then when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized. and the japanese, however, since they had been there before the americans, and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans then ordered them to actually cont

we combined artifacts from hiroshima and nagasaki with the marie key hiroshima panels. marukiare -- the hiroshima panels. to where be compared -- the guernica paintings. put together with these artifacts and with children's drawings from an elementary school in hiroshima, as i will explain later, that was the origin of our exhibit. 20 years later we have a more elaborate exhibit. it is the most elaborate exhibit on the atomic bombings that has ever been held in the u.s.. it is overwhelming. i can't tell you how many people have written me and told me it brought them to tears. this is one of the most famous images out of nagasaki. this is a young girl and she dazed.- the caption says many who survived the bombing said they were sure the bomb had fallen on their house. you will see one of the maruki panels called "fire." crucifix.is we have a there are a lot of crucifixes that are considered to be symbolic, especially in nagasaki. in nagasaki, the bomb missed the original target by almost two miles and landed above the euro commie cathedral -- urakami cathedral. in town h

but are the children of hiroshima really children? with the legacy of death which the bomb has left them. no. an atomic bomb wipes out childhood and innocence. when it wipes out a city. to these children, a hospital is a familiar place. mr. miamoto was stationed in the hiroshima in the army when the bomb fell. at the time, he was not harmed, but seven years ago, he began to feel dizzy and experience internal pain. he receives blood now twice a week. he has been here for three years, but the doctors do not tell him when he can go home. in the meantime, he makes boats, which he gives to visitors. he tells the children to stay pure in their motives. as they work for peace. 35-year-old tokita has been in the hospital for the past two years. her leg was injured in the bombing, but now she has kid -- kidney trouble and frequent bouts of jaundice. her husband died of cancer, had to be due to radiation effects. her children are living in an orphanage until she can care for them, but when will that be? tell the other countries what a bomb can

up next, "the spirit of hiroshima." this documentary was made to promote the 50th anniversary of the bombing and highlight the survivors. a young family tries to make sense of the tragedy. (music) >> the cards have been winning a lot. see, they've been winning the past three games. this time, they want 12 to four. >> look, we are going to this ceremony today. >> you mean people are already there and lining up? >> no, this is a picture of last year ceremony. it's amazing how even after the bomb was dropped, the hiroshima dom did not collapse. tv /bthe night before august 6t, the enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. around 7:30 the next morning, there was a siren indicating that the planes had retreated from hiroshima. so 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. don today, we have this modern steel podium.

but are the children of hiroshima really children? with the legacy of death which the bomb has left them. no. an atomic bomb wipes out childhood and innocence. when it wipes out a city. to these children, a hospital is a familiar place. mr. miamoto was stationed in the army when the bomb fell. at the time, he was not harmed, but seven years ago, he began to feel dizzy and experience internal pain. he receives blood now twice a week. he has been here for three years, but the doctors do not tell him when he can go home. in the meantime, he makes boats, which he gives to visitors. he tells the children to stay pure in their motives. as they work for peace. 35-year-old tokita has been in the hospital for the past two years. her leg was injured in the bombing, but now she has kid trouble and frequent bouts of jaundice. her husband died of cancer, had to be due to radiation effects. her children are living in an orphanage until she can care for them, but when will that be? tell the other countries what a bomb can do, she says. tell them to

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. hiroshima was instantly transfigured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. greg: in the first days after ae atomic bombing of a regime and then nagasaki three days now, the years ago leading japanese news reel team send one or more cameramen to the two cities. they shot footage of the aftermath. not just the buildings, but survivors and victims told the whole story. was shipped back to tokyo where was soon suppressed by the american occupation when they arrived in early september the news real then tried again and they sent several relief people to hiroshima and nakasaki. again, they shot footage, expensive footage of the next month. when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized. the japanese, since they had been there before the americans, and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans ordered them to continue their work but under american supervision. the japanese went back to work. they sho

your bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki -- nuclear bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. we are joined by author and historian ian toll. the eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president harry truman's grandson, clifton truman daniel. ♪ 75 years ago today, the uso and the nuclear weapons bureau. gay,ed from the b-29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. that and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. good morning. it is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 20. we are going to spend the entire program on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii. would like to hear from you. your thoughts on the decision to use the a-bomb, the end of the war and hiroshima's legacy. zones, and central time 202-748-8000. mountain and pacific 202-748-8001. world war ii veterans and their families 202-748-8002. japanese-americans, 202-748-8003 . that line also availab

of hiroshima's peace park. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the 70 fit anniversary of a conference where the new president henry truman and from winston churchill of england and stalin of the soviet union about the new u.s. super weapon. exploit the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> -- is an often independent scholar and specific war historian in a set release his latest publication and latest war "twilight of the gods: in the pacific." welcome to "washington journal." washington journal on the 75th anniversary. guest: thank you. i am glad to be here. host: we have heard from harry truman after the hiroshima bombing. from your research and the study of the war and the bombings in particular, why did harry truman do it? i think the decision to use the bomb was really implicit in the manhattan project, so it was really assumed from the time, for the time truman came to office in ,pril after the death of fdr that this weapon, if it worked, it would be used. so it may be more accurate to sa

that is a very popular image inside hiroshima. at 8:15 a.m. in hiroshima. so everything stopped. it dropped at 11:02 in nagasaki. in our first exhibit, many of those replicas were the original artifacts. but many of them were so fragile that the museum decided not to let them out of japan anymore. we have got the replicas instead of the originals. almost everything is the original artifacts. what we've got here are the famous mushroom clouds, photographs of the mushroom cloud in hiroshima on august 6, 1945, and nagasaki on august 9, 1945. the descriptions of them from people on the plane, like a pillar of flame shot up into the air and kept expanding. from the top of the column, the pillar, you see these additional bursts and they just keep going up. estimates of 40,000 feet into the sky. enormous. the crew of the enola gay said they could see the cloud from four hours away. they could still see the cloud looking back, it was so high. there was a lot of radioactive debris that was swept up in the cloud. some of that comes down as black rain on the victims of the bombing. here, we

in an instant hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. hiroshima was instantly trans figured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. >> in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima and then nagasaki three days later, 75 years ago, now, the leading japanese news reel team sent one or more cameramen to the two cities. they shot footage of the aftermath, not just buildings but survivors and victims. told the whole story. this footage was shipped back to tokyo, where it was soon suppressed by the american occupation when they arrived in early september. the news reel team tried again. they sent several elite people actually to hiroshima and nagasaki and, again, they shot footage, extensive footage for the next month, and then when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized and the japanese, however, since they had been there before the americans, and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans then ordered them to actually continue their work but

hiroshima mary because uma matsui addressed survivors -- hiroshima mayor katsumi matsui addressed a group of survivors and public officials. >> had at that nothing would grow here for 75 years, and yet hihiroshima a recovered, becomia symbol of peace. joined byore, we arare a survivor of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. hideko tamura snider. she was 10 years old when the .omb was dropped first her memoirir is titled "one susy of: a c child's memories hiroshima." she is a retired psychiatric social worker and founder of one sunny day initiatives. he joins us from medford, oregon stop we welcome you to democracy ,ow w it is a not a to have you hideko tamura snider. can you go back 75 years ago, 8:15 i in the morning, in your city of hiroshima. tell us where you were and what happened next. amy, fofornk you, inviting me. yes, i remember. almost 75 years, it is almost lilike yesterday. child, justipiest haven from thery soht before, seeking fortunate to be home. the morning was very sunny, birds were chirping. butterflies over flowers. over in my ownng housee, with my back to the garden, read

that is a very popular image inside hiroshima. the bomb dropped at 8:15 am in hiroshima. the clocks stopped, the watch is. it dropped at 11:02 in nagasaki. our first exhibited 1995, many of those now replicable's were the original artifacts. some of them are so fragile that the museums have decided not to let them outside of japan anymore. theseat reason, some of have got replicas instead of the originals. almost everything is the original. here are thegot famous mushroom clouds. the photo of the mushroom cloud in here oshima august 6, 1945 and nagasaki. the descriptions of them from people on the plane was that it was like a pillar of flames. shot into the air. expanding.ept from the top of the pillar you see these additional bursts and they keep going up. enormous. the crew of the enola gay said they could see the clouds from four hours away. they can still see the cloud looking back. it was so. there was a lot of radioactive debris that was swept up in the cloud. some of that comes down as black rain on the victims. got the view of here is shiva city. bomb wast for the

countdown to hiroshima. the story begins with the first atomic bomb test in new mexico on july 16th 1945. the document key events leading up to the 1945 bombing in hiroshima japan. the author than describes in detail. thanks very much you can all hear me i hope. thank you so much for coming on the most wonderful evening and this glorious city. which my daughter has completely fallen a love with. it's great that you could all come here to this institute -- to hear about the atomic bomb. i haven't really made any notes but i really want to talk to from the heart what this book is and what it means to me, and the journey that i have taken over the last two and a half years since i started the documentary. i was asked to make this documentary back in april 2003. by a friend of mine who owns a company in a london called line television. i did everything possible to resist the offer, to make this film. not because the mommy was appalling -- which it was. but because this is a really terrifyingly difficult and comp

up next, "the spirit of hiroshima." this documentary was made to promote the 50th anniversary of the bombing and highlight the survivors. young family tries to make sense of the tragedy. ♪ the cards have been winning a lot. they have won the last three games, this time they won 12-4. >> look, we are going to the ceremony today. >> people are already there and lining up? >> this is a picture of last year's ceremony. it is amazing how even after the bomb was dropped the hiroshima dome did not collapse. ♪ > ♪ thehe night before august 6 enemy planes were constantly flying over hiroshima. around 7:30 the next morning there was a siren indicating the planes had retreated from here oshima. all the students and teachers started to go to school. at 8:05 the teachers gathered the students on the playground to start the morning. i rang the bell and students started to line up in front of the podium. today, we have this modern steel podium. then, we only had a wooden one. i would stand on this and say good morning and say a

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. hiroshima, was instantly transfigured, there is nothing left but ruins. nothing standing, to hinder the full view of the city. >> the first days in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima, and then nagasaki two days later, it was 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news real team, sent one or more cameramen, to the two cities. and the shot footage, of the aftermath. not just the buildings, but the survivors and victims. and this footage, we shift back to tokyo. where it was soon, suppressed by the american occupation, when they arrived in early september. the new israel team tried again, and they said several people, lead people to hiroshima and nagasaki, and they shot extensive footage for the next month. then when the americans arrived and nagasaki, again the footage you know had seized and the japanese had been there, before the americans. they had totally historic vote footage. that showed medical effects, as physical effects. the americans ordered them to continue

hiroshima. it dropped at 8:15 a.m. so time stops there. clocks stop, watches stop and it also dropped at 11:02 in n nagasaki. when we did our first exhibit in 1995, many of those replicas were the original artifacts. some are so fragile that the museums decided not to lot them outside of japan anymore. for that reason, some of these we have the replicas instead of the originals. here we have the famous mushroom clouds. the description to them, especially for people on the plane, was that of a pillar of flames just shot up into the air. the cloud kept expanding from the top of the column, the pillar, you see the additional bursts. they just keep going up. estimates are 40,000 feet into the sky. they could see the cloud from four hours away. there was also a lot of debris swept into the cloud. here we have the view. so the target for the bomb was here. thought the pilots would be able to see that clearly from the sky. the bomb drifted and landed over here above the hospital. this is probably the m

shockwave, countdown to hiroshima. the story begins with the first atomic bomb test on july 16, 1945 and document key events leading up to the august 6 bombing of hiroshima in japan, was the author describes in detail. >> thanks very much. you will hear me, i hope. thank you for coming on a most wonderful evening in this glorious city which my daughter has fallen in love with. itis such a lovely evening, is great that you can come here to listen to horror stories about the atomic bomb. not -- i want to talk to you from the heart about what this book is and what it means to me. the journey i have taken over the last two to half years since i started the document tree. i was asked to make this 2003ent tree back in april by a friend of mine who runs a company in london. i did everything possible to resist the offer to make this film. because it was a complex and frightening and challenging subject. you are dealing with one of the seminal events in world history obviously. there are all kinds of cliches about the world cha

in an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. hiroshima was instantly transfigured. there was nothing left but ruins. nothing standing to hinder a full view of the city. >> in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima and then nagasaki three days later, 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news reel team said one or more cameramen to the two cities. and they shot footage of the aftermath, not just the buildings but survivors, victims told the whole story. this footage was shipped back to tokyo where it was soon suppressed by the american occupation when they arrived in early september. the news reel team then tried again, and they sent several people, elite people, actually, to hiroshima, nagasaki, and again, they shot footage, extensive footage for the next month, and then when the americans arrived in nagasaki, again, the footage was seized. and the japanese, however, since they had been there before the americans, and had totally historic footage, that showed medical effects as well as physical effects, the americans then ordered them to actually cont

of hiroshima. we'll show you a documentary examing the atomic bombing in japan. through the stories of survivors. it also features a young family born after the bombing. we're trying to make sense of the tragedy during the anniversary. enjoy "american history tv" every night and every weekend on c-span 3. >>> the purge ri case against president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn will be reheard by the full u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit on tuesday. the panel of ten judges will decide whether a federal district court judge must dismiss the charges as recommended by the justice department. hear the case live tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. and c span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. >>> up next on history book shelf, from 2005, author steven walker talks about his boom "shockwave." the story begins with the first atomic bomb in new mexico on july 16th, 1945. and documents key events leading up to the august 6th, 1945 bombing. which the author

atomic bombing of hiroshima took place what can you tell us about it cation. thank you for having me yes today we have 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima today a ceremony was held scaled down significantly there are social distancing in their chairs and their general was not that means it was not allowed to enter our life years the year exactly our. 8 am we did the exact moments where and so if you 5 years ago moments of silence was observed in remembrance of the obvious comment on. this ceremony has never been cancelled since dear center of power was built in 1952 and today the list are over 324000 names of the victims were put in the center of. this list is our worst day to each year and then there was the mayor of hiroshima speech and he urged of all to unite against common threats to humanity of course includes the threats but he also warned about the rising nationalism which is threatening the people of the world and you refer also to the pirates and then. of course we saw those ceremonies taking place with the social distan

but are the children of hiroshima really children. the legacy of death, that the bomb has dropped on them. no. and atomic bomb -- wipes out a city. to these children, a hospital is a familiar place. mr. me a motel,, but the time he was not harmed, but seven years ago he began to fail internal pain. he receives blood now twice a week. he is been here for three years, and the doctors do not tell him when, he can go home. in the meantime, he makes boats which he gives to visitors. he tells the children, just a pure in their motives. as they work for peace. 35 year old, has been in the hospital for two years this 35-year-old. her leg was injured in the bombing, and now she has kidney trouble. and frequent belts frequent bouts of jaundice. her husband died of cancer. her children are living in an orphanage until she can care for them. but when will that be? tell other countries what a bomb can do she says, tell them to work for peace. her children keep their deal with them in the orphanage. and they always read their mothers letters. they

and very briefly on the issue of hiroshima as the chosen target and why it was number two, hiroshima satisfied a number of criteria which expressly and explicitly described in the minutes of the target selection committee which took place both in los alamos and in the pentagon around the corner. the target was a perfect target. it was untouched by bombs, virtually. all these other cities had been pulverized. it could show the effects of an atomic bomb very clearly. it also had one very, very major advantage. it was surrounded on three sides by mountains. and very expressly, a number of people involved in the target selection committee described how the mountains would create a focusing effect which would increase the blast from the bomb. so it was untouched. its geography was bomb perfect. you know. the weather patterns look good there. they check the weather for the last 150 years. 150 years, in order to see where the best bombing days would be and it came down to somewhere in early august. they picked out two or three possible days. the weather was good then. and it was in some sen

after the pony came, the bomb dropped in hiroshima and the pony told the people to run away. another bomb would drop. after a few minutes another bomb drops. >> in nagasaki? >> yeah. >> what happened to the pony? >> it was ok. >> and it was titled the pony of nokia sake? news -- of nagasaki? was it a cartoon? >> it had something like puppets. >> puppets? >> i think it had puppets, but it was more like a movie with regular people. it was something like puppets in a regular movie. i think it was something like that. >> he doesn't remember anything. >> these paintings are titled "reaching for peace." but the title is not that important. to search and find a brightness likeness of peace, a from such a dark and gloomy background, that is the concept. i would like to continue painting such themes about peace. it is my conviction. being a survivor, i always have the hope in my heart of living in a world with no atomic bomb. ♪ >> the children nowadays, the younger generation all hope and pray for apeaceful world. a world without war. but hoping and praying alone will not bring peac

hiroshima, for example, had a port. it had a couple of military -- it was headquarters for a couple of military outfits including, i think, the second army and certainly the chugoku military police headquarters, and they had the port. they were training soldiers and shipping them out to china from hiroshima. so they had a port. nagasaki was a ship building center. you had the mitsubishi ship works down at the mouth of the river in the harbor, so those were -- those were considered military targets, and that's how they chose. also, there was some -- unfortunately some factor, i believe, they factored in whether or not these places had been bombed already because the scientists and the military wanted to know what kind of destruction the bombs would have. they wanted a pristine target. i'm not sure how much that figured in, but i know that that was at least part of it. but they were trying to choose military targets that would cripple some industry and do a lot of damage. >> i do know that in the initial list of targets,

atomic bombing of hiroshima took place what can you tell us about. thank you for having me yes today 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima today the ceremony was held but scaled down significantly there are social distancing in their chairs and their general audience will not miss or will not allow enter our unlike previous years exactly our 158 am we did the exact moments where and so if you. moments of silence was observed in remembrance of the obvious comment on . this ceremony has never been canceled since there was built in 1952 and today the list are over 324000 names of the victims were put in the center of. this list is our worst day to each year and then there was the mayor of hiroshima gave this speech and he urged of all to unite against common threats to humanity of course includes the threats but he also warned about the rising nationalism which is threatening the people of the world and you refer also to the arabs and any. crisis are those ceremonies taking place with a social distancing as you say today ther

agnew's footage of hiroshima is rarely used in t.v. reports and documentaries his shots of the 2nd bomb dropped on nagasaki are often used instead. the earliest misuse d.w. was able to find a short film produced by the us government the associated press gives the date of publication as 1905. and that is actually one was immensely more powerful than the irrational weapon exactly to turn a ball and it had far more destructive power. the national clout. substantial it is bigger. you can tell from comparing that to the 2 bombs and the photography a small slice it more convincing or less you as your next demonstrate the 1st but this shot it's neither hiroshima nor nagasaki a search of atomic history archives suggests that this massive blast is the cherokee hydrogen bomb test over bikini atoll in 1956. did the government and the media make a simple error or was the misuse of the footage intentional. i can't really speculate about whether they were they were deliberately concocted. a misrepresentation that if i was told that was the case it c

atomic bombing of hiroshima took place what can you tell us about. thank you for having me yes today 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima today the ceremony was held scaled down significantly there were social distancing in their chairs and their general audience was not was not allowed to enter the parks unlike previous years exactly at our 8158 am you do the exact moments where and so if you 5 years ago moments of silence was observed in remembrance of the obvious on a bomb. this money has never been cancelled since there was built in 1952 and today the list are over 324000 names of the victims were put in the center and this list is of worst of dates each year and then there was the mayor of hiroshima with gave this speech and the version of all to unite against common threats to humanity of course includes the threats but he also warned about the rising nationalism which is threatening the people of the world and you refer also to the fires and their. crisis are those ceremonies taking place with the social distancing

thank you all this 61945 a single atomic bomb destroyed hiroshima. the whole. coronavirus will not stop me from campaigning for a world free from nuclear weapons and nothing you have. learned when you think about that time that's tragic and cruel and should never happen again. but you know here's a thought on your you remember how i did that nothing a great here to 75 in the years fuck you will hire you i must of. course just know i know yet hiroshima recovered becoming a single pace with people from all around the world is it in the city. that they were. and future generations of japanese continue to pay the price for the bombing of hiroshima but the story of 112 year old girl in particular has come to define the suffering. so. this is a paper crane. just before she died ortiz. was just 12 years old when she passed away in 1055 she died from the effects of exposure to the year same atomic bomb. in the decade since cycle has become the symbol of the nuclear war and civilians and the 1000 people before her death became an emblem of determination and peace. hiros

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and when i went to hiroshima, i met a lot of different people in hiroshima, people who were still virus from the bomb. they had many many stories. some which i narrow down and used in this book. almost exactly as they were told to me. through an interpreter ahead with me. and there was one story, that really struck me, and i never forgot. and kept turning around around in my mind and i'll tell you what the story was and how i used it. i met a man he must of been in his mid eighties and i met him in his living room in hiroshima and he was somebody who had a very bad le burns face. we are talking about various different things we are talking about what hiroshima was like before the war and what it was like in months leading up to what it was like when the bomb was dropped. he told me about the good things in the bad things. he told me about the movies that people went to, you know hit movie in 1945, was a movie called for weddings, and if you look at the newspaper of that time, which i have even the newspaper that was printed on august six 1945, this is before the bomb fell, you can see t

agnew's footage of hiroshima is rarely used in t.v. reports and documentaries his shots of the 2nd bomb dropped on nagasaki are often used instead. the earliest misuse d.w. was able to find a short film produced by the us government the associated press gives the date of publication as 1945. and that is actually one was immensely more powerful than the irrational weapon access to turn him ball and it had far more destructive power. the mushroom cloud is. substantial it is bigger. you can tell from comparing that to the 2 bombs and the photography a small slice it more convincing or less you as your links demonstrate with mars but this shot it's neither hiroshima nor nagasaki a search of atomic history archives suggest that this massive blast is the cherokee hydrogen bomb test over bikini atoll in 1956. did the government and the media make a simple error or was the misuse of the footage intentional. i can't really speculate about whether they were they were deliberately concoct. a misrepresentation that if i was told that was the case

atomic tom drops over hiroshima -- atomic bomb drops over hiroshima and nagasaki. we will take your calls after a couple of minutes of conversation. we will put the numbers on the screen for our guest. if you live in the central or eastern time zones, (202)748-8000. if you live out west, mountain and pacific, it is (202) 748-8001. we have two separate special lines this sunday morning. one of them is for world war ii veterans and their families. (202) 748-8002. and for japanese-americans. (202) 748-8003. we look forward to talking with you and you talking to our guest, richard frank. more perspective here. how widespread in 1945 was support for president truman and his decision to use atomic weapons? has that changed over time? guest: the support for truman in 1945 and sometime there afterwards was extremely high. numbers, i've seen above 80%. it's changed over the years because the narratives have been employed over the years have changed very much. one of the things that really concerns me about this is, i don't question that we should talk about this and it shou