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00:00:02EARTH WITH HIS LIGHTNING ROD AND
00:00:04UP JABBED GENERAL WASHINGTON AND
00:00:08THE TWO OF THEM, THEY ACCOMPLISHED THE GREAT AFFAIRS
00:00:11OF WAR AND PEACE AND IT WENT
00:00:13WITHOUT SAYING AND THAT I, JOHN
00:00:15ADAMS, WAS NOT GIVEN CREDIT THAT I WAS DUE.
00:00:19SO ADAMS IS IS ONE WHO REALLY WEARS HIS EMOTIONS ON HIS SLEEVE
00:00:23AND, HIS EMOTIONS CHANGE FROM DAY TO DAY. SO THE NEXT DAY HE'S SORT OF
00:00:27LUCID AS FRANKLIN SAID ABOUT JOHN ADAMS.
00:00:31HE IS, AS HONEST AS THE DAY IS LONG.
00:00:34HE IS THE MOST INDUSTRIOUS
00:00:36PERSON AND HE'S ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. ABOUT HALF THE TIME.
00:00:40AND THAT'S THE KIND OF GUY YOU WANT TO QUOTE.
00:00:43SO I'M NOT SURE IF THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT IN THE LETTERS.
00:00:46GEORGE TO MARTHA. WELL, LET'S GIVE HIM A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
00:00:50THANK YOU SO MUCH, SANJAY. THANK YOU.
00:01:29OH. AND.
00:01:36AND.
00:01:39A TALE OF TWO CITIES IN NEW
00:01:43MEXICO IN THE DARKNESS OF A
00:01:45DESERT MORNING ON JULY 16TH,
00:01:491945, THE ATOMIC AGE WAS BORN A
00:01:53SCIENTIFIC GIVES A PREVIEW OF
00:01:53ITS DESTRUCTIVE FORCE.
00:02:18FROM THE INSTANT OF THAT FIRST
00:02:20BLAST UNTIL HIROSHIMA VANISHED FROM THE LIST OF LIVING CITIES
00:02:24CLOSELY PLANTS IN NEW MEXICO AND THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
00:02:29CONTINUE. THEIR WORK TO SHORTEN THE WAR.
00:02:35HIROSHIMA, ONE OF JAPAN'S ARSENAL CITIES WAS SELECTED AS THE FIRST TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF
00:02:38ATOMIC POWER.
00:02:4321 DAYS AFTER THE NEW MEXICO
00:02:45DRESS REHEARSAL ALONE, B 29 WAS OVER HIROSHIMA CARRYING AN
00:02:49ATOMIC BOMB. AT 817 IN THE MORNING OF AUGUST,
00:02:54JAPANESE TIME, THE FIRST ATOMIC
00:02:56BOMB HIT AN ENEMY TARGET.
00:02:59WAS TO EXPLODE ABOVE ZERO POINT
00:03:02A SPOT IN THE CITY AT THE JUNCTION OF THE SAW AND THE BOMB
00:03:05WAS INTENTIONALLY SET TO EXPLODE WELL ABOVE THE ZERO POINT TO
00:03:10DISSIPATE RADIOACTIVITY. HERE IS THE PICTORIAL RECORD OF
00:03:13THE RESULT AT ZERO POINT
00:03:16DIRECTLY BENEATH EXPLOSION, THE
00:03:19SOLDIER IN THE SCENE IS POINTING AT THE SPOT FROM WHICH ALL DAMAGE TO THE SURROUNDING AREA.
00:03:23WAS IN TERMS OF DISTANCE FROM
00:03:24THE CENTER OF THE BLAST WITHIN A
00:03:28MILE OF ZERO POINT, THE
00:03:30DEVASTATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
00:03:34BUT IN THESE VERY RUINS, ARMY CAMERAMEN HAVE FOUND THEM.
00:03:38FILM PICTORIAL EVIDENCE THAT TELLS THEM STEEL AND STONE THE
00:03:43EFFECT DEATH DEALING ATOMIC POWER. FOR EXAMPLE, THIS WAS THE SITE
00:03:46OF THE MAIN JAPANESE MILITARY HEADQUARTERS. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 20,000
00:03:50JAPANESE MILITARY PERSONNEL STATIONED HERE.
00:03:53THEY ARE AMONG THE MOST ALONG
00:03:59CONCRETE SMOKESTACK INDICATES
00:03:59WHERE A BUSTLING FACTORY STOOD,
00:04:05REINFORCING CONCRETE BUILDINGS SEEM TO HAVE WITHSTOOD THE
00:04:08EXPLOSION FAIRLY WELL, THE DAMAGE, VARYING WITH THEIR
00:04:12DISTANCE ZERO POINT WITHIN AN
00:04:15AREA OF A MILE TO A MILE AND A HALF. THIS TYPE OF BUILDING WAS THE
00:04:20ONLY TYPE TO WITHSTAND COMPLETE DEMOLITION AND DESTRUCTION.
00:04:24HERE'S BUILDING THAT WAS ACTUALLY KNOCKED SIDEWAYS,
00:04:26GIVING YOU AN IDEA OF THE FORCE OF THE BLAST, THE DIRECTION OF
00:04:30THE BLAST, AS GRAPHICALLY TOLD BY THE SLANT THIS PARAPET A
00:04:36CONCRETE.
00:04:38ETCHED IN THE STONE BASE OF WHAT WAS THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
00:04:42MEMORIAL ARE TELL TALE LINES
00:04:45ATOMIC FOR ALL TO READ ANOTHER
00:04:49SIGNPOST OF THE DIRECTION AND FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION AS BLASTED IN THE POLISH GRANITE
00:04:52FACE OF THE STATUE LIKE SURFACE
00:04:55INDICATES THE ANGLE OF THE BLAST TO TENTHS OF A MILE FROM ZERO
00:05:00POINT MANY OF THE SHATTERED WINDOWS POINTED LIKE SKELETON FINGERS.
00:05:03THE DIRECTION OF THE ATOMIC WIND
00:05:05OF DEATH ON, ONE SIDE BLOWN IN
00:05:09ON THE OTHER BLOWN OUT WITH
00:05:11ATOMIC TORNADO FORCE.
00:05:16INSIDE. THE FLASH BURNS ON THE CHAIRS, ELOQUENT TESTIMONY ON THE HEAT
00:05:19OF THE BLAST A MILE FROM ZERO
00:05:21POINT, WHICH SINGED THE MOHAIR UPHOLSTERY LIKE A BLOW TORCH
00:05:27TORCH. HIROSHIMA CITY HALL, WHICH STOOD AT AN ANGLE OF 45 DEGREES TO THE
00:05:30DIRECTION OF THE EXPLOSION, HAD
00:05:33ITS DOORS AND WINDOWS BLOWN IN,
00:05:35BUT SUFFERED MUCH LESS DAMAGE THAN BUILDINGS SQUARELY IN THE
00:05:38PATH OF THE BLAST.
00:05:42YEAH, THE WINDOWS AND DOORS OFFER A MUTE EVIDENCE OF THE WAY
00:05:46THE BLAST INTO THE STRUCTURES,
00:05:49THE DESTRUCTIVE WITHIN A MILE FROM ZERO POINT HAD A FEW
00:05:52NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS MAINLY
00:05:54REINFORCED CONCRETE ON EDGE OF
00:05:58THE AREA OF GREATEST DAMAGE WAS LANDMARK.
00:06:00THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL WHICH NEVER CEASED FUNCTIONING
00:06:03ALTHOUGH IT DAMAGE TODAY A DOMINATES THE DESERT OF A DEBRIS
00:06:07THAT WAS HIROSHIMA. ANOTHER NOTABLE EXCEPTION TO THE
00:06:11GENERAL DEMOLITION WAS THE RAILROAD STATION IN EAST
00:06:14HIROSHIMA, A MILE AND A HALF FROM THE CENTER OF THE BLAST.
00:06:17THIS BUILDING, HOWEVER, SUFFERED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE.
00:06:20THE TWISTED STEEL BEAMS AND CONCRETE WALL SHOW, THE EFFECTS
00:06:24OF THE TREMENDOUS CONCUSSION.
00:06:33WHAT'S LEFT OF THE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM WITHIN 2/10 OF A MILE OF
00:06:36ZERO POINT ALSO GIVES INDICATION OF THE TREMENDOUS PUSH OF THE
00:06:42EXPLOSION. THE DOWNWARD FORCE. THE BLAST TURNED THE ROOF OF THE
00:06:46COMMERCIAL MUSEUM INTO A RESERVOIR.
00:06:50AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, BRIDGES DID NOT SUFFER TOO BADLY IN HIROSHIMA.
00:06:54THE STEEL RAIL BRIDGE MILE FROM ZERO POINT HAD TOWARD THE
00:06:59EXPLOSION, VIRTUALLY BLASTED BY FLYING PARTICLES, WHICH REMOVED
00:07:02ALMOST ALL THE PAINT. BUT THE SIGHT AWAY FROM THE
00:07:07EXPLOSION DID NOT NEED A NEW PAINT JOB.
00:07:11RHODES IN THE AREA FARED BETTER THAN BUILDINGS OR SHORTLY AFTER
00:07:14THE FIRES DIED DOWN, TRAFFIC WAS RESUMED.
00:07:18TODAY, THESE HIGHWAYS THROUGH THE RUINS ARE AGAIN IN USE
00:07:21BESIDE OUR MILITARY TRAFFIC TRUCKS. THE SURVIVORS OF VANISHED
00:07:25HIROSHIMA, THE FIRST CITY IN HISTORY TO, BE ATOM BOMBED INTO
00:07:30OBLIVION. EVEN FOR A MILES AWAY.
00:07:33THE EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BLAST WERE FOUND.
00:07:37ALTHOUGH HERE, BETWEEN THE NOVITIATE OF THE JESUITS AND ZERO POINT LESSENED THE
00:07:41INTENSITY WINDOWS OF THE MAIN BUILDING WERE SHATTERED.
00:07:43A GROUP OF PRIESTS WITNESSED AND
00:07:46SURVIVED THE HIROSHIMA.
00:07:48ONE OF THEM I MUST TELLS WHAT HE
00:07:51ACTUALLY SAW AND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT.
00:07:55I WAS IN MY ROOM, WHICH IS THE
00:07:58VALET, AND SUDDENLY I SAW LIGHT
00:08:03LIKE MAGNESIUM LIGHT FLASHLIGHT,
00:08:07WHICH FILLED THE WHOLE VALLEY.
00:08:09AND LOOKING OUT OF MY WINDOW TO
00:08:12FIND OUT THE REASON FOR THIS
00:08:13PHENOMENA, I SAW DECISIVE LIGHT
00:08:17AND TURNING AND FROM THE WINDOW
00:08:20TO THE DOOR OF MY ROOM, I HEARD
00:08:24A CRASH.
00:08:25IT MAY BE MAY HAVE BEEN 10
00:08:28SECONDS AFTER SEEING LIGHT, THE
00:08:32FLASHLIGHT AND.
00:08:34IMMEDIATELY I WAS COVERED WITH
00:08:36SPLINTERS OF THE WINDOW AND
00:08:41STICKING INTO THE WALL.
00:08:42AND ACTUALLY MY FLESH ITSELF.
00:08:49AFTER WHILE YOU SAW A PROCESSION
00:08:53OF PEOPLE COMING FROM THE
00:08:55OUTSKIRTS, A CITY OF DEVELOPED A
00:08:59MANY OF THEM, MOST OF THEM THE
00:09:02WOUNDED AND ESPECIALLY THE PART
00:09:07OF THE BODY WHICH WERE NOT COVERED BY CLOTHES LIKE HEAD,
00:09:12FEET OR BACK.
00:09:14ALL OF US WERE LIFTED TO THIS
00:09:18EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE AT THE SPOT ESTIMATED
00:09:21THE NUMBERS DEAD AT LEAST
00:09:24100,000.
00:09:26UH, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION OF THE STORY THAT THE RULERS OF INDIA
00:09:31ADMITTED THAT BE REAL? WELL, I THAT IT'S JUST A RUMOR
00:09:34BECAUSE I, MYSELF AND OTHERS OF
00:09:38US HAVE WORKED IN THE CITY.
00:09:40SO IMMEDIATELY AFTER EXPLOSION
00:09:42FOR SEVERAL HOURS, AND WE FELT NO ILL AFFECT AT ALL AFTER
00:09:48HIROSHIMA, LIMA, TOKYO WONDERED WHEN THE NEXT BOMB WOULD FALL.
00:09:52THEY DID NOT WONDER ALONG BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED
00:09:55AN ULTIMATUM SURRENDER OR FACE
00:10:00DESTRUCTION. THE JAPANESE IGNORED THE ULTIMATUM.
00:10:02IT WAS EVIDENT THAT ATOMIC POWER
00:10:04TO BREAK THE ENEMY MUST BECOME A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
00:10:08NAGASAKI WAS SELECTED TO BECOME
00:10:11TARGET CITY NUMBER TWO. EXACTLY THREE DAYS AFTER
00:10:15HIROSHIMA.
00:10:16ABC 29 SET OUT FOR NAGASAKI.
00:10:20AND INSTRUCTIONS WERE PRECISE TO THE NORTH.
00:10:22JAPAN'S GREATEST PLANT TO THE
00:10:26SOUTH STEEL AND ARMS WORKS WERE LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.
00:10:30THE BOMB WAS AIMED MIDWAY BETWEEN THE TWO PLANTS.
00:10:32THE CAR, AS GREAT AS DAMAGE BECAUSE THE PLANTS WERE LOCATED
00:10:36IN A VALLEY SURROUNDING SHIELDED MOST RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND
00:10:40CONCENTRATED THE DAMAGE ON THE SECTION.
00:10:44AT 1058 THE MORNING OF AUGUST 9TH, THE BOMB WAS ABOVE THE CITY
00:10:47AND THEN THE TOWERING MUSHROOM JAPAN COULD REACH ITS DUE.
00:10:51THIS WAS MORE THAN A ROUTINE BOMBING.
00:10:54IT WAS THE FUNERAL PYRE OF AN AGGRESSOR NATION. A BOMB HAD BEEN PURPOSELY
00:10:59EXPLODED SO THAT THE GREATEST PART OF ITS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
00:11:02WAS DISSIPATED IN THE
00:11:07STRATOSPHERE.
00:11:10AND FROM THE AIR, THE SKELETONS
00:11:13OF THE MITSUBISHI PLANT MADE EVIDENT THAT NAGASAKI IS WAR
00:11:17MAKING POWER WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED, OR THE VALLEY AREA OF
00:11:21LITTLE MORE THAN THREE SQUARE MILES BLAST AND FIRE INDUCED THE
00:11:25INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND SURROUNDING BUILDINGS TO
00:11:27BLACKENED RUBBLE.
00:11:35AND. THE MITSUBISHI STEEL AND ARMS WORKS EXTENDED ALMOST A MILE IN
00:11:38LENGTH BEFORE. THE BLAST. THESE WERE MODERN BUILDINGS
00:11:42CONSTRUCTED OUR OWN AMERICAN FACTORIES CLOSER EXAMINATION OF
00:11:44THE RUINS SHOWS THE SAME COMPLETE DESTRUCTION
00:11:48CHARACTERIZED THE RUINS OF HIROSHIMA, DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT
00:11:52AND USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NAVAL RIFLES AIR GUNS AND HEAVY
00:11:57ARTILLERY, SUCH THAT EVEN IF JAPAN HAD DETERMINED TO COMMIT
00:11:59SUICIDE BY CONTINUING RESISTANCE, HE COULD NOT HAVE SALVAGED MUCH FROM.
00:12:03THE RUINS SMOKESTACKS BENT, BUT
00:12:06DID NOT BREAK BEFORE THE BLAST,
00:12:09AND ROADS WERE UNAFFECTED. PEOPLE USING THEM WITHOUT ILL EFFECT.
00:12:13SHORTLY AFTER THE EXPLOSION.
00:12:18THE RUINS REVEALED BEYOND DOUBT THE EXISTENCE OF THE SHADOW
00:12:22FACTORIES THE JAPANESE HAD SET UP IN THE NEARBY RESIDENTIAL
00:12:24AREAS OF THE INDUSTRIAL VALLEY.
00:12:26YOU HAVE SEEN THE SWATH OF DESTRUCTION CREATED BY ATOMIC IN
00:12:31THIS TALE OF TWO CITIES THE WORLD IS GREATEST MINDS IN
00:12:34SCIENCE, STATECRAFT AND MILITARY
00:12:36MATTERS ARE WRESTLING WITH THE
00:12:38PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE ON THE
00:12:42SPOT OUTLINED IN STONE IS A
00:12:44FIGURE REPRESENTING THE AVERAGE MAN REGARDLESS OF HIS RACE OR
00:12:49CREED.
00:12:51THESE ATOMIC FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME CAN NEVER BE
00:12:56ERASED. THEY POINT A PATH WHICH LEADS TO
00:12:58UNPARALLELED PROGRESS OR
00:13:02UNPARALLELED, JUST AS IN THE DARKNESS OF THE DESERT.
00:13:06MORNING WHEN THE ATOMIC AGE WAS
00:13:08BORN ATOMIC POWER PUTS QUESTION
00:13:10SQUARELY TO MANKIND MANKIND.
00:13:39IT WAS THE OF AUGUST, THE AIR
00:13:44RAID ALARM, WHICH HAD BEEN ON FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE THROUGHOUT THE CHUGACH, THE DISTRICT WAS
00:13:48LIFTED FOR THE TIME BEING.
00:13:50IT WAS AN UNUSUALLY AND CLEAR MORNING.
00:13:54A FEW MINUTES AFTER 8:00, TWO
00:13:56SUPER FORTRESSES INFORMATION APPEARED OVER THE