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Hiroshima bomb survivors on G7, want people to remember
"As world leaders came together last week for the G 7 meeting in Hiroshima Japan, atomic bomb survivors spoke of their experiences and the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Two elderly men who were babies when the bomb hit and a woman who was born soon after, explained the complicated feelings of watching leaders of current nuclear weapons powers, visiting the city, first hit by an atomic attack. Whose director of the Hiroshima prefecture confederation says he has no idea if the leaders fully understood what we are saying, but when they go home, I think they should open a explain to their people what survivors have gone through. And satoshi Tanaka also an atomic bomb survivor are now 6 general of a liaison conference group ads, as the leaders were visiting the peace park you know, it was raining while I was wondering why it was raining. And I really think it was the hibakusha and those who perished in the atomic bombing, crying. The trio spoke of their hopes for the abolition of nuclear weapons. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Ukraine secured military aid, including advanced fighter jets, at the G-7 summit
"President Joe Biden announced a new military aid package worth $375 million for Ukraine during his meeting with Ukraine's president at the G 7 summit in Japan. President Biden unveiled the aid package at a meeting with Ukrainian president, Vladimir zelensky, in Hiroshima. Includes more ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles, to bolster Ukraine's battle abilities. Zelensky's response to the package. My appreciations. We never forget. Biden's fresh pledge came after the U.S. agreed to allow training on American made F-16 fighter jets. The training lays the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine,
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy arrives in Hiroshima for G7 summit as world leaders sanction Russia
"Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky has arrived in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies. His appearance at the G 7 summit is meant to galvanize global attention as nations ramp up pressure on Moscow for its 15 month invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky's visit comes just hours after the U.S. agreed to allow training on potent American made fighter jets, laying the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine. Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares its counter offensive. I'm Lawrence Brooks
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G7 leaders gather for Summit in Japan, visit Peace Park
"World leaders visit a peace park dedicated to the tens of thousands who died in the world's first wartime atomic bomb detonation on August 6th, 1945. Leaders, including president Joe Biden, gather in front of the peace park memorial, they reached and participate in a symbolic tree planting ceremony, holding the G 7 in Hiroshima, is an attempt by prime minister fumio kushida to promote an anti nuclear message. After group photos near the city's iconic bombed out dome, discussions hone in on sanctions on Moscow. With a focus on redoubling efforts to enforce existing sanctions meant to stifle Russia's war effort in Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
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Zelenskyy to join G7 at Hiroshima summit as leaders prepare to unveil new Russia sanctions
"G 7 leaders meet to discuss new ways to punish Russia for its 15 month invasion of Ukraine, days before Ukraine president volodymyr zelensky arrives at the summit in person. Zelensky will join leaders of the world's most powerful democracies in Hiroshima, Japan, making his furthest trip from his war torn country, as leaders are set to unveil new sanctions on Russia for its invasion. Alexa danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's national security and defense council confirmed on national television that zelensky would attend to the summit, then in love, said zelensky would be wherever Ukraine needs him, and that important matters will be decided at the summit in Japan. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
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Biden arrives in Japan and meets with prime minister ahead of G7 - CNN
"President Biden meets with the Japanese prime minister ahead of the G 7 summit. President Biden greeted troops a Japanese officials at a hangar at a Marine Corps air base near Hiroshima before heading to a meeting with Japanese prime minister fumio kushida. The bottom line, mister prime minister is that on our country's stand together, we stand stronger. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the two leaders have a lot to talk about ahead of the larger group of 7 summit. The military dimension of the alliance, the economic dimension of the recently concluded agreement on clean energy, the work we're doing together in economic security,
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G-7 leaders likely to focus on the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia at summit in Hiroshima
"G 7 leaders are likely to focus on the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia at a summit in Hiroshima. The symbolism will be palpable when leaders of the world's rich democracies sit down in Hiroshima later this week, the Japanese city's name evokes the tragedy of war and the leaders will tackle a host of challenges, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and rising tensions in Asia. The attention on the war in Europe comes just days after Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky completed a whirlwind trip to meet many of the group of 7 leaders now heading to Japan, G 7 leaders are also girding for the possibility of renewed conflict in Asia as relations with China deteriorate. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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G7 energy and environment ministers agree on hastening moves to clean energy, curbing global carbon emissions
"Energy and environment ministers of the group of 7 wealthy nations have met in Japan with the urgent need to end carbon emissions. The meetings in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo are aimed at forcing a consensus on the best way forward ahead of the G 7 summit in Hiroshima in May, however, differences continue of how best to stop carbon emissions, especially during a period of global energy and security fueled by the war in Ukraine. At one of the meetings, U.S. presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, said there are some benefits to finding a solution to climate change. It's also an opportunity economically. A huge opportunity for our country is to achieve better health,
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Al Gore Rants About Climate Change at World Economic Forum
"Listen to him yesterday at the heralded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A missions are still going up. When are we going to bring these emissions down? And just to put the science in a slightly different context, people are familiar with that thin blue line that the astronauts bring back in their pictures from space. That's the part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and it's only 5 to 7 kilometers thick. That's what we're using as an open sewer. If you could drive a car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds, you get to the top of that blue line and 5 minutes. And all the greenhouse gas pollution would be below you. We're still putting a 162 million tons into it every single day. And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth. That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and The Rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1 billion in this century. Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees. What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self governance on this one. I mean, if you're watching this on the sale of news channel, his you're watching this on the sale of news channel, his veins are bulging. He's purple in the face. Yeah, that's normal. Here's a great Twitter, a tweet I saw. This man who arrived in Davos on a private jet and was ferried to the hotel in a full sized gas guzzling SUV and owns three mansions is a complete and total fraud.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why the Left Needs January 6th
"So in a major event happens, like January 6th, it is, we should expect the other side to try to capitalize on that. Now, a lot of people are attacking Kamala Harris for comparing January 6th to the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 9 11, which of course is patently insane. They said it was a deadly attack on the capitol. The only deaths actually that occurred at the capitol was Ashley babbitt. The death of officer Brian cyclic was not at all, they said it was a fire extinguisher that had that was not true. But I want to take a different take here. We could mock Kamala Harris and talk about the death tolls and the differences. Okay, 3000 people died at 9 11, but I want to take a different tack because for her purposes for the purposes of the regime, this absolutely was a Pearl Harbor moment. Play cut 55. Certain dates echo throughout history. Dates that occupy, not only a place on our calendars. But a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021. Those dates mean change. Kamala Harris is saying out loud that, hey, there's now a reference point. We have a mandate to change things. 9 11 gave us department a Homeland Security the Iraq War in 20 years in Afghanistan. Pearl Harbor gave us an invasion, not an invasion, but a two front war in Europe and in the Pacific and an atom bomb developed and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Battle of Iwo Jima the storming of Normandy beach. And eventually the Marshall plan and a Cold War and for camela Harris and the regime's purposes she spot
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Says U.S. Dropped Bombs on Japan for Financial Reasons
"Nicole Hannah Jones tweets over at the federalist they picked it up Sean Fleetwood New York magazine writer and founder of the 1619 Project the call Hannah Jones took to Twitter this week to offer historically illiterate take on why the United States bond Hiroshima during World War II In a course she was promoted by The New York Times or 1619 project cronut but a New York Times Historical scholars from every walk of life came out and said she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about but it doesn't matter You see And now deleted November 6th tweet Jones attempted to argue that the only reason the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city was due to financial reasons All you World War II vets listen to this She said they dropped the bomb They I guess meaning her country America When they knew surrender was coming because they'd spent all this money developing it and to prove it was worth it She wrote propaganda's not history my friend Now that is unbelievable She is a complete idiot She is a complete idiot Their first bomb was dropped and then the second bomb was dropped because Japan refused to accept unconditional surrender And that's what Harry Truman insisted on She is a historical illiterate but she can push her Pablo her hate for this country and there's not a single corrupt media platform that wouldn't love to
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Operation Crossroads: The Test of Atomic Weapons in Naval Warfare
"World war two had just ended the year before in nineteen forty-five while the war was over. The cold war between the united states and the soviet union was just beginning at this particular moment. The united states had a monopoly on atomic bombs. However it while they had vanished to create and detonate several bombs. There was still a great deal. They didn't know about this weapon. Only three atomic bombs had been detonated at this point. The original trinity test explosion in new mexico. The bomb used over hiroshima and the one used over nagasaki. All three of these were detonated over land. What no one knew was what would happen. If these weapons were used in naval warfare. What would happen to ships which were hit with an atomic blast with they sankar would they flow it. People in the navy had speculations but no one had any proof to this end of the. Us navy initiated operation crossroads. This was to be an a of atomic weapons in naval warfare. The navy search for a location where they could conduct such a test. They needed somewhere remote yet somewhere where they could set up headquarters on land and have observation posts. They eventually settled on a remote coral atoll in the pacific ocean in the marshall islands. The navy move the one hundred sixty seven people who lived on the island to other nearby islands so they could begin testing. They also sailed a fleet of ninety five ships to the atoll which would serve as target ships for the test. These were ships that were set for retirement and the scrap yard and instead would be used for testing they would get newt facilities for over. Forty thousand people were constructed. Who would be there to the tests. They had to build everything from scratch. They build bunkers to observe the test. They built barracks kitchens offices clubs for officers and clubs for enlisted men. It was a massive undertaking and all done far away from prying eyes in the middle of the pacific ocean on july first. The first of these tests took place he would be the fourth atomic bomb ever detonated. In the first above water the test was given the codename able it was dropped from a b twenty nine bomber and exploded approximately five hundred feet above the surface. It caused surprisingly little damage to the ships because the bombs were about a third of a mile or six hundred meters off target the next day. The news of this event spread around the world and everyone became familiar with this remote pacific island which was named
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"And it's a very you know the the set is just full of bells and whistles. You know they're they had the sound of you know the bomb worrying. They have the sound of the talk. The clock ticking. I mean it's just this highly produced dramatic production. And you know this. Poor reverend is just sitting there just totally bewildered but trying so hard to stay composed and the moment where they bring out the bomber To to shake hands. I mean it's just you can't even imagine what's going you know going through that tunnel. Motos mind and hersi would report on this later on and he. He said that the appeared to be crying too. Many millions of viewers. Who are watching this. But in reality hersi reported it turned out that he had been out bar hopping. Beforehand is too much to say that. John hershey's reporting here change the world's perception of nuclear weapons. I certainly don't think so. And he didn't think so either and he was an extremely modest person when it came to evaluating his his place in the world the japanese could not for years to tell the world what it had been like to be on the receiving end of nuclear warfare because they were under such dire press restrictions by occupation forces and so it took john hersi is reporting to show the world what the true aftermath and the experience of nuclear warfare. Looks like the japanese would not be able to tell speak in their own words until the occupation was over in early. Nineteen fifty s. It changed overnight for many people what was described as one of her by one of his contemporaries as the quote fourth of july. Feeling about here ashim. I mean there was a lot of dark humor about you. Know the bombings in hiroshima. I mean it just really imbued the event with a sobriety. it really hadn't been there before Hersi is reporting played an enormous role in creating that visceral feeling around the use of nuclear weapons and he himself later said you know that the the thing that has kept the world safe from another nuclear attack since nineteen forty-five has.
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"He runs into his wife. Who's in a bloodstained dress And just making your way out of the neighborhood with their baby in there and earn her arms trying to find any respite but it's unclear to any of them where where there's going to be any kind of Place to escape from the flames. Eventually the family does make its way to a park on the outskirts of the city and the park was at one time manicured beautiful garden and it becomes a scene from hell survivors. Make their way into it in the ground is just frankly it's slick with corpses and that's where at where they are able to seek. Refuge did many of the people that he spoke to seemed to be suffering from radiation poisoning. Yes and he was able to. Including reverend tanimoto had been very sick with you. Know he called in his diary the atom disease They still really didn't understand. They understood the with what at that point. You know what had happened is that they had taken to their bodies an enormous amount of radiation during the blast But they're still no way to treat them. Japanese doctors completely out of loss. I mean sometimes they would give them. You know vitamin injections. And i would have terrible terrible effects Father klein's orga. who was the german priest. Who had been her sees. Main entree to the blast survivor. community also had been horrifically. Ill The young widow who her see also Profiled mrs nakamura. She and her children were all wracked with radiation poisoning in throwing up since the early hours of escaping so one of the things that hersi did in detailing in excruciating detail the the re the after effects of having received these astronomical amounts of radiation was he was showing the world that these were not conventional weapons and they were not as a general leslie groves had told congress earlier earlier few months earlier that They were not. They did not give blast survivors quote a very pleasant way to die and quote. The general actually said that to congress that the dying of radiation poisoning is very pleasant. Way to die yes I know that john hersi went back decades later to to revisit. These people were still alive head. They suffered from medical effects most of their lives from the radiation in varying degrees. yes German priests seems to have Been most decimated. He was in and out of hospitals for you. Know his entire life and You know by the time he he died you know. His doctors just said that he had been quote a living corpse for years Koko tanimoto who had been you know an infant at the time the bombing had on the other hand had kind of a gallows humor about the effects of the bomb on her and her mother if they both lived in long age Cocoa said that she had been rendered incapable of having children because of the radiation. But you know cocoa tomo amato was actually Studied at length by The atomic bomb casualty commission. Which was you know. An american commission that came in to look at the japanese guinea pigs To see how radiation affected their bodies in the long term an examination subject for years something that she felt enormous humiliation about. Let me reintroduce your. We're gonna take another break here. Leslie blooms. New book is fall out the hiroshima cover up and the reporter who revealed it to the world..
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"That had Had returned to her she a so he sought them out and fortunately couple of them spoke english and hersi one over there their trust they gave him their testimonies about what it had been like for them on august. Sixth nineteen forty five and then not only did. They agree to be his translator because they spoke japanese. Hersi did not They also began to make introductions for him within the blast survivor community right so he ends up focusing the story on six people who survived the blast to clergyman one catholic methodist to were physicians. Both of those were men and then to women was a widow who had three children and was at home cooking rice when the explosion happened and then a twenty year old woman who was at work at her job as a clerk in a ten works I thought maybe you could tell us about reverend tiny moto who was because he was a methodist clergyman. Who was in the area at the time. And i'll just give little warning to listeners that we're going to be dealing here with some info some accounts that are obviously May be very upset about what happened in hiroshima. So if you don't hear that you might turn away for a couple of minutes so tell us a little bit about what reverend taina moto experienced. Reverend tanimoto on the at the moment of the bombing was slightly. Outside of the of the city he had been Transporting some goods To the outskirts of the city and he was up on a hill and so therefore he had a bird's eye view of what what happened he He fell to the ground to win. The actual bomb went off but then when he when he got up he saw that the city had i been enveloped in flames and black clouds and slowly. He would see he saw per session of survivor is starting to struggle. Out of the city was just absolutely horrified by what he had seen and baffled too. Because you know usually an attack on this level would have been perpetrated by a fleet of of bombers but this was just a single flash and the the survivors who were making their way out of the city and who would not survive for long. I mean most of them were naked. Some of them had flesh hanging from their bodies. I mean he saw just unspeakable sites as he ran into the city because he had a wife an infant daughter he wanted to to find his parishioners the closer he got towards the detonation. The worst the scene was i mean the. The ground was just littered with scalded bodies and people who were trying to drag themselves out of the ruins and wouldn't make it. You know there were walls of fire that consuming. The areas of enormous firestorm was starting to consume the city. He just at one point was picked up by whirlwind cause wins had been unleashed throughout the city and and these torn attic Whirlwinds and he was lifted up in a red hot worldwide and then dropped from a height of about eight feet. I mean it was just unbelievable that he survived not only the initial blast but then heading into city centre and you know the extreme trauma of having witnessed what he witnessed. It's it's remarkable that he that he came out of it alive right and he meant he mentioned grabbing some cushions and meant dousing them with water to try and get through the flames and find his family. He did find his wife and daughter right. it was again another another near miracle Somehow and child had been in their house which collapsed on them upon detonation. They'd somehow managed somehow managed to escape and as reverend tanimoto is tearing hysterically through the city centre looking for survivors..
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"There has got radiation poisoning from their souvenirs unclear. I mean a lot. There is a movement of Former occupation era. gi's who call themselves the atomic vets Who believe that they Received radiation doses from their occupation periods during during their time in hiroshima We'll hear more of my interview with lesley bloom after a break. Today is the seventy six th anniversary of the bombing of era shema. Her book fallout the hiroshima cover up. And the reporter. Who revealed it to the world. Comes out in paperback. Later this month and later we'll hear an excerpt of our interview with inventor and tv. Pitchman ron poe peel. Who died last week at the age of eighty six. I'm dave davies. this is fresh air. The following message comes from. Npr sponsor showtime with ufo afford part documentary series exploring the most enigmatic question of all. Why do we believe what we believe. From the legendary j.j abrams ufo explores the most unbelievable sightings of our time featuring insiders behind the pentagon secret ufo program confirmed by the new york times. Get an in depth. Look at first person. Testimonies an extraterrestrial footage. Ufo premieres august eight nine pm..
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Tell us a bit about him. Who is john hersi. Where was he in his career. So and hersi was. He was young but he was already. You know his incredibly celebrated he had won the pulitzer prize for wartime novel. Called belfer donna. He had been a war correspondent since nineteen thirty nine for time inc He had at one point had been groomed to be. Henry loses managing editor and heir-apparent to timing which he neglected to take mr lewis up on his offer. He was also commended. War hero And he had been in an imbed covering a battle between the japanese and the americans in the solomon islands and had helped evacuate A wounded marine for which he received his his commendation He was Extremely well known and well regarded war correspondent in august of nineteen forty-five when the bombs went off right. so he He he leaves time magazine. He ends up at the new yorker. What kind of magazine was the new yorker in nineteen forty five. It was one of the great ironies of of my book and of the story is that the new yorker would be the one to break this the story than yorker had been founded in the nineteen twenties as a a intentionally niche sophisticated humor magazine about about urban life. And it's co-founder harold ross. Used to freak out if the circulation got to be over three hundred thousand would say you know something must be must be wrong but you know. Pearl harbor really changed Everything for for the new yorker. I mean he both herald. Ross the founder and his deputy editor william shawn. They'd been newsmen And that you know. The the newsman blood surged back right away. There was in there is there was no no option other than to take the magazine onto a wartime footing. You know even though it'd been a humor magazine you up to that point harold. Ross said to you. Know one of his colleagues. Nothing feels funny anymore and they too began to dispatch war correspondents around the world..
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Level of destruction and also about lasting effects from radiation poisoning How did us us military respond to these reports. Well they went on a pr They created a pr campaign to really combat. The notion that the us had decimated These these populations with a really destructive radiological weapon and They dispatched leslie. Groves and Robert oppenheimer themselves went to the attorney site of testing to and brought a junket of reporters. So they could you know. Show off the area. And they said that there was no residual radiation whatsoever and that therefore any news that was filtering over from japan. Were quote tokyo tales. So right away. They went into overdrive to contain that narrative so understand you simply took them to a site in the united states where a weapon had been tested and showed them no residual radiation. Yes they did. They went to the trinity site which is in new mexico where the first atomic bomb had been had been tested successfully tested on july sixteenth of nineteen forty five and meanwhile the junk of two dozen reporters gets their round the detonation site. You know the sand in the desert has been turned to green glass because of the impact of the bomb. And they're all wearing. Booties but you know to cover their shoes from possible radiological particles but leslie groves is there to give a junket saying that. You know everything's okay here and you could live here forever. You could live in hiroshima and nagasaki forever to. There's nothing to see here folks so the. Us military was saying these reports of terrible suffering and lingering. Radiation effects were japanese propaganda. This also happened in the context of you know the moral judgments that might people might be make about such a weapon and do the military was putting it in the context of the way the war had begun and the way the japanese had behaved. How did all that set the context for the american response. Look americans were still enraged by pearl harbor and they You know had had hor riffing time fighting in the pacific theater and You know casualties were.
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Being said about radiation at its effects. I mean american generals had testified before congress on this. How did the character risk. Yeah in immediate weeks you know very little. I mean a lot of it was really painted in you. Know landscape devastation You know photographs landscape. Photographs were released to newspapers. Showering the decimation of hiroshima. And sake and i mean they were rubble pictures And also you know. People are seeing the mushroom cloud photos taken from from the bombers themselves or from recon missions and but in terms of the radiation even the announcement truman's announcement of the of the bomb. He's painting the bombs in conventional terms. He says you know. These bombs are the equivalent to twenty thousand tons of tnt. And so americans you know they. They don't understand. they know that. It's mega weapon. But they don't understand the full nature of the weapons. Yet you know. The radiological effects are not in any way highlighted to the american public. And in the meantime you know the us military is scrambling to find out. How the you know. The radiation of the bombs is affecting the physical landscape how it's affecting human beings because they're about to send tens of thousand occupation troops into japan. So they you know they're sending their own recon missions in late august of nineteen forty five onto the ground to hear shema nagasaki to to see if they can in good conscience clear the atomic cities for occupation and they they do declare privately amongst themselves that The the the radiation has dwindled to nothing because of because of the height at which had been detonated they said that much of it had been reabsorbed back into that fear but they would also you know. Start to study the blast survivors. Who had taken in radiation to their bodies you know when the blast went off and look at how it affected them. The fact is that the the people who created the bombs didn't have a full understanding of what the bombs were going to recon landscape in humans. And we're going to be studying that for years. While they were on the ground occupied japan. You mentioned a lieutenant general leslie groves..
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"hiroshima" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm davies infra terry gross. Today marks the seventy six anniversary of the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon. The atomic bomb dropped on the japanese city hero. Shema while the horrors of the explosion and radiation from the bomb are now widely acknowledged. They were far less well-known in the months after the attack american. Gi's serving in the occupation force. In japan would regularly visit hiroshima to pick up atomic souvenirs from the rubble to take home. The scale of the destruction and suffering was eventually told in the book hiroshima by journalists. John hersi which became an international bestseller. What many don't know is that. Her book was originally a lengthy article that took up an entire issue of the new yorker magazine. A year after the bombing it became one of the most influential pieces of journalism ever written today. We're going to listen to my interview with writer leslie. M m blum. Who's book tells. The story of her sees quest to bring the real story of here ashim to the american public and the impact that had on the world's understanding of nuclear weapons. Leslie m bloom is a los angeles. Based journalist author and biographer. I spoke to her last year about her book. Fallout the hiroshima cover up and the reporter. Who revealed it to the world. Well leslie bloom. welcome to fresh air. Thank you for having me. We've all grown up in a world with nuclear weapons in. We know they were developed during world war. Two in the top secret manhattan project and then used of course nineteen forty five to end the war with japan but in nineteen forty five. This was all new. First of all. How much americans know about the nature of the weapon that was used in china for americans didn't know about the bomb period until it was detonated over hiroshima. And you know it manhattan. Project was cloaked enormous secrecy. Even though tens of thousands of people were working on it. I mean many of them didn't even know what the end product of their labor was going to be President harry truman did not know about the bomb He he learned about it only upon the death of his predecessor. Or you know in the spring of nineteen forty five. That's how under wraps the project was so when president harry truman announced that america had donated the world's first atomic bomb over the japanese city of her shema. He was announcing new. Not only a new weapon. But the fact that we had entered into the atomic age americans had no idea about the nature of these then experimental weapons namely that these are weapons that continue to kill long after detonation and it would take quite a bit of time and reporting to bring out so a second bomb was dropped on nagasaki. Japan surrendered and after years of war. Americans course deliriously happy that it was over. What did they know about the destruction and death that the weapon had visited on here ashim. Well i mean at first appeared that the us government was being almost ecstatically forthright about the new weapon. And when you know. President shri announces the the bombing. He says look. This is the biggest bomb. That's ever been houston history of warfare and the japanese should surrender or they can expect a rain of fire. Ruined from the sky anybody's ever seen before. We unleashed the power of the sun. I mean it was almost biblical language. So they knew everybody who heard the announcement knew that they were dealing with something totally unprecedented not just in the war but in the history of human warfare what was not stated. Was you know the fact that this had radiological qualities. Not even blast survivors on the ground would be Dot dr in an agonizing for in the days and the weeks and the months and years that followed right and so in the weeks and months that followed what was.
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IOC's Bach Gets Mixed Reaction in One-Day Visit to Hiroshima
"International Olympic committee president Thomas Bach got a mixed reception in his visit to Hiroshima in Japan this is he met with an atomic bomb survivor everybody wears been here and to estimate this experience and has got this inspiration we'll leave here Russia as an ambassador for peace the Olympics start next week in Tokyo the city is under a coronavirus state of emergency there were protesters in her Rocha do you want to you know this you Kiana she because mother was an atomic bomb victims he says he's opposed to the Olympic Games saying as you can see from box actions they are trying to use the sports to make money Bach repeated the games in Tokyo will be safe and secure I'm a Donahue
The Kame House Podcast
"hiroshima" Discussed on The Kame House Podcast
"Wide spectrum is wide struck spectrum just like american tv and they don't realize that and so when they think of anime they think of shonen in a immediately think of nardo in dragon ball z. What they saw on cartoon network during their kid years so like yeah. He actually really liked it. It's really being aware of your audience. Me yeah the to recommend south that they would like. Yeah and i really think about that when like My best friend. Shutout sue by s- She's trying to get into. She's trying to watch anime for me just so that she can like stay in the loop. She's so adore her. Oh my god. I love her so much high terror. You're listening because i gave her the podcast information. No yeah what did you give. I got really excited. So i really wish don't know what to give you. Oh my god you're right. You're trying to bond with me on my got but i i originally gave her my hero academia really. Because you know. I don't think she would like the more serious stuff being that. She's like really a disney girl slice of life her knowing her disney girl. She's really a disney girl. So i was trying to give her something with lie first of all. I was trying to give her something. That was only on netflix. and hulu. because nobody's gonna download going by crunching. Yeah if you're a non dedicated if you're not a dedicated anime watch a. You're not going to watch. You're not gonna get animation aiming services. But so i really tried to like think of stuff that was on hulu net flicks so i told her to watch My hero. I also told her to watch Oh slipping my head is slipping my this in. My head is slipping my head also told her to watch way of the house husband. Okay because i am. We'll talk about that. We're going to circle back today. Y'all just as a reminder. I told her about that. Because it's funny. And she tends to like goofball and she tends to like you know a little chuckle here and there and i thought that thought that she would would have liked the Antics of way of the house husband. And you know she's married. It's about a a house husband. That's like in love with his wife in. Who doesn't like doing all that. She right so i don't know if she watched it but i probably follow back up with her. But yeah those are that. I gave her also gave him taro because she has she has a hamster and she loves animals and oh she actually liked ham. Taro growing up. So i was like well. She returns on youtube all episodes. 's so yeah. Those are the three that i gave her. I really don't. I don't really give out my favorites like i. Don't give them my favorite like that but ran. I guess it's also different. I would tell y'all hey check this out. 'cause i really like it. I think you guys would like it. And those are my favorites but like if somebody's asking and i would definitely wouldn't give out my favorites because some of my share is really different. Yeah it's not. I know it wouldn't hit for them. Plus the i know. I know all my shit that people wanna see all your pixel like quality and like everybody loves them because a good. Yeah so like. I'm quick to recommend to somebody i'm always like. I put a lot of thought into my shit. Our will my recommendations and god. I don't want to say i'm contrarian but usually my favorites are usually ones that aren't like as big as other ones. I do always give our cowboy bebop. Because i was cavalry. Will this week. I watched three episodes to rewatch cavalier. I'm at the smoke and watch their number three watched issued. I a wash my hands cowboy bebop talent you. This thought over high okay. There's no way could overhaul cowboy bebop. I don't think he'd over hype cavalry. Don't think you can either. There's something in there for everybody and it's kind of lie. There's a lot of hijinks. So even with that storyline you still just like airy episodes. Not like some series as episodes so salat. There's a be. Bob is a like a smorgasbord. Of like i just want to watch your free. I don't know why i wanna i know. I wanna look ed now. But i just love it. I just want to watch it. I just wanna take in this time around. She has something about it just being in being in the present moment and being just so so free. Alto which duped cavalry epsom later. 'cause i got some thoughts about it But yeah i'd bro. We should really lie. We should i really would like to do a cowboy bebop episode like i really would when we all we watch it. My next question would be I talked about a little bit of where. I define a ten out of ten. And my question. is you my question. I positive right now is what is ten out of ten to you and all your favorites habitants I'm off areas aren't ten attitude no my favorites aren't ten out of tens. 'cause sometimes my ten. My favorites can just be based off the fact that like it's nostalgia bitch loves living in the past and bitch loves nostalgia meeting some matrix in my own. Yeah you know in my own. Mind what i like. Yeah you know what i'm saying. I know that. I really meant to like slice. Allies romance and i know a lot of people can't gygi with this shit and that's fine. It is not even a ten out of ten to meet. I just need to enjoy your favorite. Yeah this is my favorite i to enjoy enjoying the. I don't care if it's a ten ads internet see. I'm trying to.
The Kame House Podcast
"hiroshima" Discussed on The Kame House Podcast
"To look look at like several times. Just like kate in. I am choosing to support the english translations the physical english translation copies when they come out. Don't know in the fifth one comes out. I think may be june. But i'm all right with their time Yeah i think. I said once before i do agree that man is is. It's good no matter how you read it. But i am glad that i read it. Weekly and sparked out rather than spending it all at once now. Wish i would've already weekly. That's i'd saw it. And i wish i would have read it but you know i'm here now. I'm on the bus. I'm behind like like. I'm sitting at the back of the bus but i'm away up. I'm a move my way. But i'm really enjoying it like i said i'm gonna talk about that next week. And then the last of manga. That's on my Weekly reads. I'm this one's on this one's finished its complete Is my and. I talked about it before. It's a life lessons with your meanchey only son. It's only two volume. So i have volume to israel. Sure yes. I'm going to go on and completed. That is also going to be a just a heads up now to let you know that the kami house podcast is on the wave okay. there will be a summer anime coming up and we did talk about that in a previous podcast. That's also Instagram post but Yeah that's one of my That's one of the anime that i'm ready to watch for anime For summer anime. Twenty twenty one. So let me talk about sakamoto days this week at work. I had some downtime bro. Quick and i decided to read a chapter sixteen and seventeen of soccer moday. I by the time this podcast episode releases after eighteen will already be out. If you're listening to this you get a recap of sixteen and seventeen. And then you'll be fresh for eighteen. Or if you just want to cute little recap and you've already rich after eighteen. By the time this came out you know during the motherfucking party. So let's get into it so chapter sixteen which is pretty much a filler filler chapter. It wasn't it was cute. It was cute. So i always get confused on. Why people use filler. Filler is tell me tell me the right way to you like it's not it's down. I i use the word. Downtime filler is what anime uses to fill time. Manga can go further so they have more material work with. Oh like one piece. One piece has filler. Where the mangas keep keeps on going week by week. The enemies go so much faster. It's because people feel like filler. Is anything that does not push the story. line forward. yeah they haven't. I don't think they have been. They haven't been quite so perceptive as you to know that. That is the reasoning behind. Why they do that so now. If you're not looking into stuff like that you just think they're just pause and the storyline and it's annoying because either way rather it's filler. Whether it's it's annoying. And i was used rod. That's a lack of a better word on my end. Yeah yeah what's the correct way to say it. It's okay. I think even though it's not action bag i think the slower chapters are probably more my favorites and i wouldn't call those failures. I love. I liked chapter. Sixteen is the shopping. Yeah that's the shopping one. Where like he's getting their backpacks for his daughter and like he is literally live beedon s in order to get it iago chapter sixteen now because that's really cute in his daughter is adorable and i just oh my god it was just like the Sock is the way the houses as episode we watch. Yeah the fight in the supermarket and you know you ever think about your parents. Had they just go through hell and high water just to get you the things that you wanted as a child now granted you have my momma fucked up. And she wasn't going to fight for not a goddamn thing but she did go to the high water for me. And i just. That just tugged at my heartstrings. So cute manga chapter. Check it out. Don't skip it. Don't don't skip it because yanni did. Y'all need it. Give jaffrey's sometime. Sometimes when i because they want the storyline. Sometimes some people will read like a chapter. I don't do it. I don't do it because listen. I like to read every be in peace of my mongo. Okay i want to take it in. I wanna consume it. I wanna love it. I wanna be in side of it. That's how much i love my manga. Damn bitch is it. A mega round the corner neymar. I'll do this shit but there are some people who i'm not judging you but i am raising my but Don't skip that one is cute. It's cute now. Chapter seventeen is where they pick it up and wu bear with me Is your bride notes. And you like abbreviation shit. Any forget what you forget. Ooh i wanna do that to myself. So bear with me out so chapter. Seventeen opens with a new character. It opens haas gay in his Pet bird and they're talking about How killing mrs sakamoto would solve problems. Now there is. Of course there is a bounty on sakamoto. Mr sakamoto and it is one billion yen. I'm not sure how much one billion yen. Us tim miller that ten million. So roughly ten million so husky right baby is them marine. He's a little this little slow missing. He missed an array of ground. He he missed missing. He missed the bless his heart. His -posedly got out pieces. Okay it ain't got it. He ain't got it now he actually meets sakamoto right now. He doesn't realize mississau- komodo is mrs sakamoto because he has a picture of skinny sakamoto and shows up and was like yo. I'm looking for this man and it was like nope that's not me. Sakamoto looked at that shit. And say first of all you dumb ass nigga you stupid first of all you stupid second of all you don you know in third of all. That's not me if you read sakamoto days and you know mississau- komodo doesn't get dozen. Skinny mode is kind of like his beast mode right so if you see him home it you see him go into skinny mo but he only goes..
The Kame House Podcast
"hiroshima" Discussed on The Kame House Podcast
"I'm excited okay. What other news do we have a new. That's all i got if y'all got anything Now my news is that you can still function on five hours of this money. I feel i copy. You know no news below the director of even kalian decky oh is writing and directing the new common right. Fill call chain copyrighted excited some below news news right there for anyone. Who likes eliza Slowly i finished my first colorado this week and you enjoyed -joyed second one already and apparently deck yano really wants of. Do fucking comrade. I remember just getting a tweet about him. You know those at causeway weddings way like you dress up as a mascot and his wedding. So there's a thing that japan we're like you dress up as a character and your wife dresses up like in a bridal gown gate decky on did africom and writer. They wouldn't say who knew I'll need you do that. When nine will do a wedding with goku. It's it was going to happen. It would be the other way around address of up like he wants to go. Not i fuck. I look like goku is a no no right. We really have something where we just bash. Goku really don't like oku just straight up don't like oku. no. I drag him I don't i don't want nobody like makes it into my food. Yes it's not that. I don't like goodness. He's got his light omega pancakes bait. I just wish off of goku stake. They see it. Just get all this get off. Goku is dick. Because i i'm not interested. I'm not interested. It's dragon ball z. Should just really a love letter to go. And i'm i'm just not interested in seeing what you could give me though always down to see some vegetation love geeta. Okay love but geeta. But i'm just i'm just so tired. Go coup in at. Oh wow you really beat by s. I'm going to be your friend s. she. I'm cigarette she. I'm just gonna point in my age where it's like. Every time i watch dragon ball right. Every you know dragon ball is always nicely animated because you know they put the coins into it right. but i'm tired i'm tired of the same storyline. I'm sorry you can. You can film it in four k. five k. tin k. You get filming in eleven k. But you are. I'm not interested in seeing goeke seeing in knowing that at the end of every dragon ball series. Goku is just going to win the day for real. Because you know there's just no growth in the care there's just no growth in the characters but geeta has grown. He not stronger and go to. Our man is is fine fine. He'll beat the fuck out of a navy. Some geeta clips the other day. While i was at work and i wish just lie my birth control laughing. Listen take this whole shit out my father's week but he will be able to give me because i'll be edible while sorts. I would like baby. You had a blow to but you better blow this shit up. You better blow that shit. You know my nikki's excuse me bitch lost your mother fucking mind. Let me show you. You must have seen that widow's peak book the in the muscles that you need you wanted to negative six f. What about a negative five three and whereas nice buttoned-down. Sit with the khakis. Ready foot ed. Drip that's a mature drip right. Ain afraid to wear the pink not afraid to wear the pink hawaiian shirts you remember. Wimmer geeta and boma. They had that little family outing. That was some as shit bro. I wash at life five time. I always think about when Innocent transmission was tripping and he like phasing today bedroom and he told told anybody child. Csat's lie. i know i know. I know you are only right here on this car to. I know you out here on this. I know you did not just call my girl bomas. Td sag and that's a snake. She is but she look old. She got the lines. You know who you know who make this. Is you take what's up. Who's a snake on the snack on bazi marble. She looked young in the ball. Little younger bomber. You know bama a cpo her age bay fires like every year with drag her mama. Mama never had a their mama. You gotta stop arguing food. That's the thing that's what ages you. You gotta stop arguing with goku. Because i ain't no reason it ain't no reason stressing yourself out too long to even get mad at something out talking about this call may idiots avaient it a day. That's what it is next time. He scorn you say first of all. You're stupid anyway. Just walk away. You'd be so hurt karma idiot savant because you now go kudo on survive me. Goku can only read at the third grade level anyways us. Go over route to rina's book load. Okay so logic guests my notes. This was the speech. Got a death. Note these are actually my workouts notes. So i said. I'm a right all my shit down so i kind of like Going to force myself to get back in my manga. 'cause i haven't been reading in a while And my thing is when. I haven't read mong in a month. That's when i'm like okay but you need to get it together. You need to get it together because it'll get away from me. Get away from you. And that's when. I started to notice that like. I'm i'm adulting just tab too much on nita bring joy back in my life. The i've been reading my regular reads If you don't if you haven't listened to the podcast then let me give you a rundown of my regular reads so as of right now. I'm reading sakamoto days I'm reading sweating soap. Which i am going to catch up on that. I am reading princess jellyfish. And i'm almost done with princess. Jellyfish took me awhile. Your girl fell off the track but girl was going to finish princess jellyfish. And i'm going to have to say goodbye to the mars. Click and i'm just not ready for that. I'm just not. I love those girls. That's how i feel. When i watched the animate not the anime. The manga just gives me so much joy really. Dan my lease a lot to be desired. So yeah that's good so I'm finishing a princess jellyfish. I am reading chainsaw man for which are read volume four. And i'll be talking. I think i'm gonna do an overview volume for next week and You didn't finish it. I am choosing okay. And i don't want to hear nine anybody's mouth of right. I am choosing to support the english translation copies when they come out. I know i can read it online. I'm fully aware of that. I know there are motherfuckers out there who have finished shit and within a within a day or two man fuck you. I know that. But i just i don't know something about i. Just want to support it. I just wanna support it. And i just want to take my time reading get. I'm not really in by eke with all the manga. Then i'm reading and on my rotating. I'm not necessarily like interested in been reading. It honestly Amana such a concisely and like well rin thing. It's like so tightly constructed. I i would agree that i wanna like in the manga panels. And we've said this before a chainsaw man is very visual. May makes chainsaw man. Quick read is that it's very heavy on imagery imagery and less on words so like there's a lot of manga panels because there's so much imagery it's detailed so there's a lot of shit that you got to look at and when i was reading volume for Pretty much all the volumes but especially volume ford. There was some shit that like..
The Kame House Podcast
"hiroshima" Discussed on The Kame House Podcast
"Do i really want to make this much. Also eggs if you want to do with the bullshit that is all. I just want to say that that i secured my telfar bag and i gotta tell far bag you mother but a talk me nice. My is going to grow secured. Their big i was literally driving to work. Sorry mrs literally driving to work a first of all was late and like i realize on that day they bitch. I needed to secure my telfar bags. So i was driving in traffic in trying to secure their bag. And i did come vince coming in july. Congratulations france thank you. Because i've been wanting one. I've been wanting to tell far bags so bad. So that's a highlight of my. That was my highlight. I forgot to talk about my highlight. But i just thought about that. I just want you to now talk to me. Nice talk to me. Because i've got to tell for big i'll put my. I still put my foot up. Yes i'm acid- mattel. Far bag down first. put my foot up. Yes 'cause class. Sorry okay so i'm gonna take this train into news. Town triggered triggered triggered triggered turkish. Sugar shug a hook came up first. Stop let's talk about joe. Joe tell you how excited i am for jo jo. I tasted days until joe is coming out and she said fuck yes. Yes yes just like that because you know we wash data which one the one that i just put on athletes about robots and say. Oh yeah we watched it. And that she was bush It was an anthology short. I will say but it was buzzing. Becky is interesting. Which one right gone he got. The weirdest should happen him as you watch that. I watch this series. i read them. You don't watch them on. Watch me are they at least are they. Yeah they were intimate. I'm really excited for what you're going to do with this next part because gioja ocean stone oceans. We would crystal what news. You got my second. bit of. News is Iascaigh putting it on the bulletin board putting it on the church bulletin board that That will become engagement on april. The twenty nine. I thought it was already out. I thought it was. i misread. It lasts episode. I said march twenty nine. I was mistaken. April twenty ninth. We made a mistake. My bad we all hardwood died. That i don't know why i thought it was out. And it's only like what twelve episodes like say. Short short is about in an alternate reality. You asked about in an alternate reality. Version of feudal japan reimagine. What magic technology. After the fall odin nobunaga about man named puts his story pass as a legendary ronin known as a black samurai behind him. Place in the past. It doesn't it takes it's a cyberpunk reimagining of feudal japan. Ooh see almost. Wanna watch it. Because i thought it was like just historic. Yeah just one filling. But because you know what i listened to the trailer and i hate it. But he's okay so garbage. he's good i. I like him as an actor. he's not translated. Translate well on atomization voice actor. He doesn is not good at that he must have took a cheap ass contract. Then that's it don't sound good. Abbas listening to what. I was down. I should've picked somebody else. They should appease samuel jackson playing always. Listen listen to it again. Do it again. I want that to new. yeah towns brother right there okay in an afro. He played afro and ninja ninja in africa. Had his voice was just a little bit. Deeper in ninja. Ninja was actually sounded. More like samuel jackson. You like if samuel l. Jackson actually was ninja. Ninja afro samurai. It's his thoughts. But i don't see it as often anymore but a lot of people use to really think voice acting was easy but like you said lookie sounds doesn't sound so he's a good actor but he doesn't translate well because he's not used to voice acting line and he's not practice that or like or they had a terrible voice director because a lot of it on at least american dub artists state don't voice they don't act together. I feel like lakeith. Stanfield probably acts well with other people. Y- probably right. He's in his room and he's getting notes from director and he's just like i gotta do this okay and he just reading the lines without seeing what the animation is or acting with other people. That's hard they gave him something. That a seasoned voice actors should be doing. He's he's more used to lake movies and television. I should've had washington. You can't voice. I really can better care. Still sounds like watching him. Play denzel washington in every movie way okay. Glory hauled guy got training day. Somebody with him in train train with him and some white boy and they're trying to stop the bomb on a train unstoppable. Yeah the one. Spike lee is our waikele. I think i don't know. I don't think don't quote me on their Trumpet was finally blue jays. Book ally are like spike lee denzel washington together. If you are the one where he was at assassin older asom no book ally. No no the older one was retired. He always plays trying day. Maybe with the exception of train training day was still like him. It was like him in the darkest time line wasn't he malcolm x. Yes john cue. That may be making movies democracy. ill be making. He really do. Believe me making the film malls. You're as that really do. That's denzel his is fine you as a snake. That's a i can snag as q. Anyway i wasn't expecting him to come out like his last name. I just knew when. I say his last name say washington did let me man look at him. Follow me said whatever little traveler drop a-qaeda shit. I'm just saying okay. We got okay. Go here yeah no For nothing us gays about The stories and adaptation of the actual historical figure iascaigh the first black samurai in japan history. And i'm glad the stories being told these people bring more notice to it because we we knew about you ask but like i don't feel like a lot.
Big Brains
The Doomsday Clocks Historic Wake-Up Call With Rachel Bronson
"Forty five. The united states detonated two atomic bombs over hiroshima and nagasaki. It is harnessing of the basic power. The universe shortly after a group of manhattan project scientists at the university of chicago who helped build the atomic bomb but protested using against people started the bulletin of the atomic scientists. Huge choice is peace or total destruction. the atomic is yeah. They wanted to urge fellow scientists to help shape national and international policy to mitigate the risk of the nuclear technology that they themselves had helped create and they wanted to help the public understand the dangers of nuclear weapons. To the future of humanity world would not be the same. i remember anthony blind from hindu scripture. The by gerrad gita. Now i am become death. Despoil worlds are another in designing the cover of its magazine. The bulletin created something striking o'clock running out of time. It started as artistic piece created by chicago based marta lanes door. She was very to manhattan project. Scientists issues gender stood the scientists concerns about this new technology and the need for public engagement and they had asked her to create some sort of design that would engage the public on. How serious the threat of this new technology. And she said it seven minutes to midnight every year since then. The bulletin set the hands of its metaphorical clock in relation to how close to doomsday. We might be last year. The group moved it to a mere one hundred seconds to midnight. And at the time we got a lot of chiding like it's twenty twenty how come it so close. Do you really believe it's this close and then sure enough. We saw the massive wildfires right outta the gate in in australia. That got repeated in california this year but obviously covid and the inability of the global community to deal effectively with covid is was to us a clear indication of our inability to deal with existential threats. Known some ways you can make an argument that it should have been even closer to midnight this year because you had your existing threats then you had that real life pandemic which is continuing to affect us. How can we didn't go further to midnight. Yeah so in some ways You know we don't want to double count right and so a lot of the warning signs. Were what moved to one hundred seconds to midnight but it is a very dangerous in environment. And we'd we do want to acknowledge that hundred seconds to midnight is dangerous. We do see some bright spots and some opportunities so those bright spots helped us from moving forward but we weren't prepared to move it back. It may be tempting to look at the clock this year and take some hope from the fact that it didn't move closer to but remember it's still the closest to midnight that we have ever been and this year the bolton highlighted new threat one that they said is a threat multiplier to all the other problems that we face with the world health organization called a massive info democ he really grappling with what our trusted new sources. And how do you find them. And how do we share the so. We're all overwhelmed with data and information. But it's very optimistic. When it comes to share it information or what you and i know and so that becomes very disorienting and it becomes Quite dangerous right. It sets up the ability for authoritarian leaders to create their own information and different sites secrete. Their own information will get into the surprising. Ways that this info democ touches every threat factor to the doomsday clock but will start with the issue that was really the canary in the coal. Mine of this info dynamic climate change. The scientists have been warning us for decades and yet they're the ones who have experienced a lot of these issues in terms of misinformation and disinformation. I that denying climate science the marginalization of them the using of science which is kind of about uncertainty and evolution to dismiss what scientists have to say. All of. this was the global warming. And that it's a lot of it's a hoax hoax. Moneymaking industry okay. Climate change is not science. it's religion it pulls the rug out from under scientists and expert exactly the time when such expertise is actually needed and within the context of the us there could be real differences among republicans. Democrats or what you think about market versus regulation. Those are really really important questions that we should be debating fiercely right now that we can when it's being defined as climate change yes or no we can't even have the kind of real political conversations that we should be having
Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"hiroshima" Discussed on Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"Your neighbor's going to smash into you and cause an explosion the size of a nuclear warhead. Yeah. Let's talk about the the spectacular group stuff like what's the probability of surviving an asteroid hitting us, right? Yeah, And that again depends entirely on the size. For example, there are asteroids hitting the earth all the time. Like things that are, you know, less than a meter in size. These rocks are hitting the earth all the time on but the earth is big. And these asteroids are small. And every time you look up in the night sky, you see a shooting star. That is a rock hitting the earth. Remember, we have something like a windshield, right? We have this this atmosphere which protects the earth. And it protects us from various cosmic rays, but also from space rocks because what happens when a rock hits the atmosphere? Sort of like, I don't know. Like an elephant hitting a waterbed or something right? It's a zoo. It impacts and it gets on. It pushes the air out of the way. But it gets heated up by all that air is like so fast air feels like this. Like this giant jet that strips it away, right? Yeah, exactly like in all those movies when space ships or re entering atmosphere, That's because of all the friction from the air on the spaceship. Spaceships usually have like nice protection, fancy tiles or something that protect the astronauts from from being burned to a crisp But a space rock is just a rock and sometimes made of ice or rubble or or whatever. It doesn't have that And so usually they burn up in the atmosphere, and that's what shooting stars are, so we're constantly being hit by very small ones. Which we couldn't have seen in advance because they were too small, But they don't do any damage. So air is good. There is good for lots of reasons. He had business here. Good thing we have it. Yeah, but then about one every five years or so, you get a rock that's like 5 M in size and rock. 5. M in size has a lot of kinetic energy to it right. It's Been traveling through space for a long time. By the time it hits, the Earth has been pulled in by a gravitational field. It has about as much energy as the nuclear bomb that exploded over Hiroshima. It's a lot of energy to find meter asteroid is about like the size of a minivan or school bus. Yeah, yeah, It's about a school bus, and it blows up in about once every five years. One of those hits the Earth and makes pretty spectacular explosion. Now most of the Earth, of course, is covered in water. We're not like image ng all the atmosphere simultaneously. These things can happen in the upper atmosphere because you might be thinking. E think I'd notice if somebody blew up a nuclear bomb every five years. But these kind of things could happen and we don't necessarily notice them. Really. Five years ago we had in Hiroshima style asteroid hit us. The odds are that sometime in the last five years, there's a good chance that a pretty big rock hits the atmosphere and burned up upon entry, leaving as much energy as a Hiroshima explosion. Yeah, on the energy isn't quite as concentrated as focused in one spot. Is that a Russian explosion, But, yeah, you can leave a substantial amount of energy. Like by the time it reaches the ground or the ocean and has that much energy. Yeah, I think in order to reach the ground is that about the threshold about 5 M on? Remember, there was a pretty big explosion over Russia in 2013 and Kelly. Yeah, I've seen the videos on YouTube. Everybody saw the videos that just happened like one morning. Huge explosion in the sky like like an enormous bomb. And everybody was shocked. And like 1000 people I think were hurt when that happened, and nobody saw it coming right, like there was no warning. The warning was when it appeared in the atmosphere, and it just blew up. And that's exactly what happened. And I think a little bits of it might have reached the ground, but mostly it exploded in the atmosphere. Wow. So if it had been like, twice the size, somebody could have been hit by an asteroid. Yeah, absolutely on bigger. They get the more dangerous they get. You know, if he gets big enough, then it's No, it can it can explode in the atmosphere and leave huge clouds of dust and rubble and all sorts of stuff and you can. When it hits the ground, it can throw up enormous clouds of dust and rubble, and that's where the danger really lies like Not necessarily even are you actually hit by Iraq, like being actually physically hit by the rock from space is a tiny fraction of the danger or the real danger is, is just that it like covers the sun. Yeah. You know, I can see we call it like a environmental catastrophe. Environmental catastrophe I was looking for, like asteroid all winter. Okay, steroidal Winter after Idol Winter. Yeah, we're coining new science from we have the toilet bowl universe. And the asteroid all winter. You almost want to be hit by an asteroid large, you know, so that you'd die instantly, and you don't die from this like agonizing, post apocalyptic. Environmental disaster. Well, I guess you can choose how you go..
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
Project Rainbow and Flying Saucers
"To kids myths and mysteries. I've your host. Kent chrome today rothwells theory. I'll begin with three assumptions. That most theorists can agree on first that flying saucer did crash near roswell new mexico in july nineteen forty seven second that bodies were recovered from the crash site and third that there are scientists working on projects that are rated above top secret and the us government and military branches are not privy to the thread. That connects the pieces of this theory. Is that the security team surrounding these super top secret. Scientific projects has access to the best technology in the field of stealth investigation and manipulation and are possessed of the ability to control all branches of military as well as federal government with the purpose of keeping these projects secret. Only the purpose of this theory is to establish not just a flying saucers crashed near roswell bodies were retrieved but the source of the flying saucer the nature of the crew and the evidence that security teams protecting various super top secret projects were involved to understand the crash of flying saucer at roswell nineteen forty seven we need to go back four more years to nineteen forty three and parallel projects intended to bring world war two to an end. The project brought to fruition was dubbed. Little boy it was the first atomic bomb. The one that was dropped on hiroshima the first control nuclear reaction was in one thousand nine hundred forty two at the university of chicago's reactor and rico firm oversaw the first controlled energy release from the nucleus of an atom after intense effort. The oakridge plant in tennessee began to produce bomb-grade us to thirty five from nineteen forty two to nineteen forty five manhattan project continued progress toward the end result an atomic bomb now. The parallel project. I mentioned was dubbed project rainbow on august twelve nineteen forty-three. It was leaked. That the us navy conducted a test of some sort on the uss eldridge a d. e. class destroyer at the philadelphia navy yard. The exact nature of this test however is open to speculation that tasks or tests were conducted but only produced undesirable results afterwards. the project was supposedly cancel. Not as the public was led to believe because it failed. But because the manhattan project was moving ahead without a hitch but project rainbow was not only not cancelled. It was not an attempt to make the. Us eldridge invisible nor was his project conducted by the navy. It was simply the a naval vessel was chosen as a guinea pig. The name rainbow was attached to the project because of the nature of a rainbow to start at one point ended another. It was determined that if the navy vessels could be transported from an allied area to a battle zone in a matter of minutes that it could turn the tide of the war project. rainbow was based on is stein's theory on the space time continuum too. Massive tesla coils which acted as electromagnetic generators were utilized. One was mounted forward mounted aft. Other accounts state. Their series of generators called gaza's were us when activated. The electromagnetic field would extend out from the ship when the actual test was put into motion. A number of unexpected. A bizarre side effects occurred as the electromagnetic field increased in strength to begin to extend this for out as a hundred yards from the ship in all directions. Forming a large spear within this field to ship became fuzzy and indistinct and agrees hayes formed around the vessel obscuring it from view eventually the only visible object was the outline of the whole of the eldridge where it entered the water then to the amazement of onlookers. The entire ship vanished from view. It was at this point. The vanishing of the alridge that the true power of electromagnetic field that had been created was revealed. Eldridge had not only banished from the view of observers philadelphia. It had vanished from philadelphia altogether. This ship had been instantly transported several hundred miles away from philadelphia to norfolk virginia. And this was the goal after a few minutes. The ship once again banished to return back to philadelphia the failings of the task to become purposefully obscured and vague. As was the intention of the team that was in charge of keeping project. Remember secret secure. Little boy was dropped on hiroshima august. Six one thousand nine hundred forty five and twenty two days later. Japan's surrender in world. War two was brought to an end but the research on project rainbow continued.
Why It Matters
The Big Red Button
"I'm gabrielle. Sierra and this is why it matters today a look inside the rules for nuclear launch in the united states and the risks of giving one person so much power. Hey i'm alex bill and i name is abigail sto thurston. Bell and stow. Thurston are both experts at the center for arms control and non-proliferation an ngo that focuses on nuclear security. This means they spent every day thinking about how to prevent nuclear war. Okay so the only person that is in charge of launching a nuclear attack is the president. There's no stopgap. There's no other people he asked to consult. There's nothing else just his decision. Yes so there's no requirement that the president consult with anyone they can and our command and control system is designed so that he can get in contact with advisers that he wants to speak to but no requirement that he consult with anyone before we go any further. Let's get our terms straight. There are two kinds of nuclear strikes retaliation. And i use. The details are complex but both are essentially what they sound like. Retaliation involves responding to a nuclear attack with a nuclear attack. I use means being the first to use nuclear weapons in conflict. Neither of these scenarios requires the president to consult with experts. So if the scene with the big board and the president talking to all of his advisors doesn't need to happen. What actually does need to happen. The protocol for launching nuclear weapon is highly secretive but the main components are known. Could you walk me through. How a i use nuclear strike would go down. It basically starts with the president deciding that he wants to use a nuclear weapon. He can decide this because he feels like an attack is imminent on the united states. He can decide it because we're in a conflict and he wants to use a nuclear weapon to end the conflict you know basically escalate so far that the other side will back down or it could just decide. He wants to use a nuclear weapon their issues surrounding whether or not it would be a legal order. But i think in the heat of the moment you're not gonna have a bunch of lawyers running into the room saying i don't think this is legal. He actually has a direct line to the national military command center. This facility run by the pentagon is ready at any minute of the day to receive a launch order remember. The president is the commander in chief of the military. All he has to do is pick up the phone. Indicate the target and the number of weapons he would like to launch. He has something called biscuit which is a little card that has launch codes on them. Someone verifies that is in fact the president giving this order. The order goes out and within five minutes from the president deciding. I want to launch a nuke to nuke in the air. That's how easy it is terrifying short amount of time and terrifyingly easy today and you're relying on the person who has the authority to know and have thought through all of those consequences. We take it for granted that that person will have thought about that before they do it. There's no checker balance to make sure that that presidents in the right head space has thought through everything has talked with our allies. None of that's there and has it always been this way. So historically commanders did have the ability in the eisenhower administration at the beginning of the nuclear age to use nuclear weapons on their own authorities. Should they not be able to get into contact with the president and then it was in the kennedy administration that we really solidify the idea that it should be the president and the president alone that the consequences of nuclear use is so massive that it really should be a decision at the top level. The idea being that. The american public would always electa relational and straight thinking president and And so that's why. This sort of very undemocratic process develops was a bit of a nuclear monarchy. So the idea was that this one person who was elected by all these people would have the wherewithal to make the right decision in this situation. Yeah it was theorized that way but not everybody always agreed with it. In fact during the height of the cold war there was a lot of debate about whether or not this was a good structure and it kind of went to macab places at times where somebody was positing that. Actually you should have the launch codes in a pill inserted inside of the heart of military attache and the president would actually have to kill that military attache to get the codes and be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Obviously that was not an actionable plan by theorists at the time is sort of making the case about how much you're putting on the shoulders of one person and whether or not that's a good idea when it comes to a weapon that's capable of flattening cities and and beyond the stakes surrounding the decision to launch a nuclear first strike are as high as they get and since the attacks on hiroshima and nagasaki. No president has done so in an ideal world the president would think and hard and hear a wide range of opinions before undertaking a first strike but when it comes to the other nuclear scenario retaliation the president would not usually have the luxury of time for retaliation you have to be able to decide and execute the retaliation and a very short time. Lsu you risk being wiped out neutralize before you can do. so this is richard vets. He's the director of the saltzman institute of war and peace studies at columbia university. An adjunct senior fellow here at the council he's served on the senate select committee on intelligence the national security council and advised three cia director's. How short is that time. Well that depends on where you are between india and pakistan which right next to each other could be almost instantaneous. for the united states and russia the Time was generally thought to be once. The missile age began about twenty to twenty five minutes list for the united states depending on various technical details.
Your Brain on Facts
Do Not Adjust Your TV
"Their feet a lot of the time though. It's simply a matter of broadcasting a stronger signal than the station is the equipment can be sophisticated but it can also be made of scrap. Parts from things like ham radios. The motives vary widely from frustration. To it's just a prank bro. to we don't even know what heads up. There will be real clips in this episode and some of them are weird with a capital. W t f the earliest signal intrusion anywhere in the world that we know of happened back in nineteen sixty six in the soviet city of kaluga and almost triggered a nuclear war. If you know only one thing about world history in the second half of the twentieth century it would probably be the cold war decades of itchy trigger finger tension between the us and the us are one night. The regular broadcast was suddenly interrupted by a seemingly official emergency warning that nuclear war had just broken out with the united states. Many viewers took the message seriously running for cover and seeing their final prayers thankfully as what happened with stanislav petrov. Nineteen eighty-three when he correctly guessed that the early warning system was malfunctioning. When it reported incoming us bombers you can hear all about that way back in episode eleven for want of a nail government. Officials weren't quick to react a good thing to at the time. The ussr had over seven thousand nuclear weapons at their disposal. Ducted eighteen nuclear weapons tests that year alone. The us had nearly four times as many. But that's neither here nor there. It would only take fifty hiroshima sized bombs to plunge the world into nuclear winter. The soviets weren't messing around. If one official had thought another department had put out jim. It message about the us attacking. That could've been the start of a very fast extinction level event thankfully. The officials didn't panic at least not officially it would later be found that a teenager had hacked the station. His name was never released possibly because of his age and possibly to save him from retaliation from his neighbors or maybe it was a made up. Cover story tin foil hat. Nuclear war became a running theme for signal takeovers and it wasn't confined to the cold war in june of two thousand seven a show called panorama was part of the regular programming in the city of prague. In what is now czechia. The show was meant as a sort of tourist program to display calm scenic areas around the country. Like a tv travel brochure. This particular episode started off as usual with long. Lingering shots of picturesque locales around prague. Without warning the screen was bathed in a blinding flash and mushroom cloud began to climb into the sky above the city. This would be disturbing enough to see on its own but panorama was usually aired live meaning terrified viewers. At home were left. They had just witnessed a nuclear strike on their hometown. The hijacking was seamless. There had been no static or breaks in the tv signal. It was so realistic. In fact that even government officials and authorities believed the explosion was real. Luckily it doesn't take many phone calls or glances out of a window to confirm that there is not in fact a mushroom cloud rising above a blast crater in the middle of the city authorities soon turned their energy to finding the perpetrators. It would eventually be discovered that a guerrilla artistic collective called sto hoven which is known for their extravagant hoaxes and pranks were the culprits. Apparently this was a piece of performance art whether or not making hundreds of people think they're about to die.
Erin Burnett OutFront
A Kennedy is on the ballot in Massachusetts. Here's why he's not guaranteed a victory.
"And out front up next we're. Just. From one of the most closely watched primaries this year a young Kennedy on the ballot in Massachusetts but can he unseat a seventy four year old incumbent? Because it's about ideas I am the youngest guy. In. This race. Tonight and the fight for twenty twenty a usual dynamic emerging Massachusetts ahead of tomorrow's Democratic Senate primary. The incumbent in his seventies was support from progressives, his challenger young and Kennedy Manu. Raju is out front. The Hiroshima Political Dynasty the grandson of the leap Robert F Kennedy campaigning to serve in the Senate like his famous great uncles and grandfather before him the. Certainly. I think you're doing great job. Hello. The candidate he's right there. For Life Magazine. Thirty nine year old Joe. Kennedy is facing something unexpected. Seventy four year old senator who has been in Congress for almost forty four years. Has Managed to galvanize support of young voters. Ahead of Tuesday's Massachusetts Senate primary I think that a lot of young people that are our age at least. From from our town have been similarly really inspired by Ed Markey polls show Senator Ed Markey as the favourite threatening to make the four term. The first Kennedy to lose a race in Massachusetts unlike other primaries this year were democratic incumbents have been ousted by liberal newcomers. Marquis has managed to turn that dynamic on its head because it's about ideas. I am the youngest guy. In this race Alexandria, it's been murky seizing the mantle of the insurgent, touting his support of liberal causes at the green new deal and endorsement of the progressive firebrand. Alexandria Cossio Cortes such the green new deal that I introduced Alexandria Cossio. Healthcare justice is on the ballot. That's Medicare for all that I next the Bernie. Sanders. When he introduced it yet, it's been Kennedy with the badging of the party establishment leader Speaker Nancy Pelosi Allies have been frustrated that marquee has not been held to account for full record over four decades like his backing of the Iraq war in two thousand and two the NAFTA deal in one, thousand, nine, hundred, ninety, three, his position on racial issues like school desegregation dating back to the nineteen seventies progressive willing to look those hurdles that's up to a progressive movement. Out. I think an awful lot of folks in many parts of Massachusetts have a different view of that records and what that means to our communities after going door to door in working class Boston neighbors weekend. Kennedy. Accused Marquis of abandoning the state. He's been less time in the state than anybody else delegation in an interview with CNN Marquis fired back there is. No real record of Congressman Kennedy in his eight years leading on issues of of generational change in Washington Kennedy has waited until late in the campaign to stress that it's his family I. Guess It's a fighting. His blood wants to continue in the Senate tried to be really clear that it's GonNa Balance It's not my father, my grandfather brothers or anybody else and. You vote for me you're going to get now Kennedy does pull off an upset on Tuesday night it could be thanks in part to the fact that he is allies have spent more on television advertising than Markey and his allies roughly two million dollars more. But if he loses what Kennedy will do next still an open question we posed that question to him he didn't want to entertain it and said, he looks forward to running through the finish line and celebrating on Tuesday night.