Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Title

Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

TX Date

7 Aug 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:06:35

Description

Alistair McGhie reports on the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US Air Force. Includes archive recordings of the dropping of the bomb and flight of Enola Gay bomber; interviews (via an interpreter) with Yoshito Matsushige, photographer who took only pictures as bomb went off; Sunao Tsuboi, survivor; British News archive report on radiation effects.

Contributors

Alistair McGhie; Yoshito Matsushige; Sunao Tsuboi

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Military aircraft; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons; Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Radiation injuries; Radiation effects; Anniversaries; Radiation induced cancers; Enola Gay

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