Hiroshima and Nagasaki 40 years on

Title

Hiroshima and Nagasaki 40 years on

Genre

Interview; Speech

TX Date

9 Aug 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:04:44

Description

Archive news clips of Captain Kermit Beehan who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki; President Harry S Truman’s reaction to the bombs; Jacob Beser a radar technician on both raids on the necessary evil of the bombs.

Contributors

Kermit Beehan; Jacob Beser; Harry S. Truman

Keywords

Peace; Conflict resolution; Second World War (1939-1945); Aerial bombardment; Japan; Nuclear bomb; Atomic bomb victims; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Anniversaries

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