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Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004. Photo by (cc) Flickr user Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the small fishing village of Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, we hear the voices and lessons of the most deadly attacks the world had ever seen. We commemorate the anniversary of the bombings with excerpts from two documentaries, Hiroshima Countdown and Nagasaki Journey.
Featuring:
Paul Tibbets, Jr., US Air Force brigadier general; Henry Stimson, former Secretary of War; Charles Sweeney, US Air Force major general; Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki bomb survivor; Victor Tolley, US Marine Corp. vet; Itsuko Okubo, Nagasaki bomb survivor.
For more information:
Nagasaki Journey photo exhibit
Nagasaki Journey
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
Atomic Archive’s Facts on the Bombings
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Articles, Reports, Photos:
Time Life’s Unpublished Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
New York Times’ Hiroshima: A Controversy That Refuses to Die
Nevada Desert Experience Catholic Worker Nuclear protests
Nuclear Timeline
Foreclose on the Bomb not on the People
Foreclose on the Bomb! Hiroshima & Nagaski Commemoration at Livermore Lab
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum – Virtual Museum (English)
BOOK
Devil’s Tango by Cecile Pineda
Music:
Masayuki Koga, “Shakuhachi”
Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Energy Flow”
