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Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb: With Ian Holm. The events and circumstances leading to the U.S. decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of World War II.
27 Jul 1995 · Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped: With Peter Jennings, Gar Alperovitz, Barton Bernstein, McGeorge Bundy. Documentary addressing controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of World War II.
Set in the three weeks from the first test explosion in New Mexico to the eventual dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made; on board the Enola Gay on her fateful voyage; inside the bomb as it explodes; and on the streets of Hiroshima when disaster strikes.
This examination of President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 argues that the attacks were not needed to win World War II but were carried out in order to, as Truman put it, "have a hammer" on the Soviet Union. Ian Holm narrates. Characteristics. Moods. Food for Thought. Keywords.
8 Jul 2023 · An atomic bomb created by J. Robert Oppenheimer was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in 1945 by the United States military. Together, the bombings killed between 130,000 to 226,000...
30 Jan 2016 · Combines historic film clips, an analysis of the facts behind the decision to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, and personal interviews with the men who helped make the decision in an attempt to answer questions about how and why the decision was made.
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese-Canadian war drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II.
