Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Title

Hiroshima bombing 50th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

7 Aug 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:05:00

Description

Alistair McGhie reports on Japanese commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US Air Force and Japanese refusal to apologise for atrocities in the Second World War. Includes recordings of peace ceremonies; comment from Professor Jeffrey Kingston and former US POW Colonel Melvin Rosen; archive clip of US General Douglas MacArthur on the surrender of Japan; bell tolls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to remember the dead.

Contributors

Douglas MacArthur; Alistair McGhie; Jeffrey Kingston; Melvin Rosen

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Military affairs; Nuclear weapons; Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Prisoners of War; Commemorative events; Anniversaries; Enola Gay

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