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  • on May the seventh, Germany finally soothe atrocities of Nazi brutality were reflected in the delirious joy of the liberated.

  • Starlin swiftly claims the territories Eastern Europe expanding his reach, and he now offers the full force of Soviet might against the Japanese.

  • But the Truman administration.

  • He wants influence to control a future China.

  • He wants influence to keep Japan under his thumb, and he wants influence in terms of his relationship with logistics.

  • Question is invade this question.

  • Health risk.

  • Communism spreading from the Pacific.

  • Now the Americans have buyer's remorse.

  • Truman has no doubt that once the Soviets get across in Manchuria, they're gonna take Japan itself.

  • They will divide Japan the same way Germany is going to be divided into a Communist East in the capitalist West.

  • With future world order at stake, Truman heads to Germany to meet with starting a church deep in New Mexico.

  • Manhattan Project engineers are on the verge of opening a new and even darker prospect.

  • Their quest to unlock vast energies trapped 16 they test the world's first blast, creates a seven mile high in a few seconds, terrifying elemental forces way pressure to deploy the ball.

  • He's terrified that if he doesn't use the bomb on the Americans, friend have to invade Kyushu and suffer casualties.

  • And the American people find out he had this bomb and didn't use it, that he will be crucified.

  • The majority of those around food deployed pro bomb people say, Look, this is a weapon like any other.

  • I mean, we've created a new weapon.

  • Let's use it to end the war.

  • The ethics of this destructive with another priority using an atomic bomb was not going to cross any moral lines that hadn't already been crossed.

  • The attack on Tokyo and March had killed so many people that nothing the atomic bomb could do.

  • I was going to change the nature of bombing campaign rather than having tens of thousands of bombs dropped on a city.

  • This was going to be one bomb.

  • Just hours after the test, the Navy loathe U.

  • S s Indianapolis destination.

  • Continue a tiny island in the Pacific where wait on the 26th of July, allies give Japan an ultimatum that pot stand.

  • They demand the unconditional surrender of Japan's armed forces, the British, Chinese and United States governments, given the Japanese people adequate warning of what is in store for them, The statement did.

  • It really makes no mention by staying.

  • Allies leave the Japanese with a face saving way.

  • They could have said it more clearly.

  • It's certainly not clear enough statement for the Japanese to automatically know they could keep the emperor.

  • For military hardliners, surrender under any circumstances is not an option.

  • The allies gone too, demanding occupation of Japan and full disarmament their forces, even for the B C infection.

  • Terms are too much.

  • The prime minister makes a statement that they will ignore a treat with contempt on the Potsdam Declaration State Wendell but seals the fate of millions of Japanese.

  • The empire has run out.

  • 3 29 The game is a bomb containing £141.

  • Target City of 350 15 Bomb was finally released exactly at the designated hour on the explosion occurred as plan it exposed 1900 feet above the Shima Hospital.

  • Burst of neutron and gamma radiation emanates out, along with deadly At 8 14 It was a sunny day.

  • At 8 15 it was a hellscape.

  • What happens in sixth of August is absolutely shocking.

  • People and life were vaporized, incinerated.

  • Many died from massive doses of gamma radiation.

  • In less than a 2nd 70,000 people.

  • The super hurricane force wind flattened buildings.

  • In instance, giant mushroom of smoke rises from the 5.5 1005.

  • Nothing in the human experience had prepared anybody for such total izing damage so instantaneously beyond ground zero.

  • The human devastation is unprecedented.

  • 13 year old Setsuko is in our first class of the day.

  • I saw the bluish white flesh.

  • I had the sensation off flying up in the air.

  • I woke up in the total darkness and silence and I started here.

  • Fate, voices, they will say, God help me, Mother, help me.

  • Setsuko is relatively unscathed.

  • Her sister, Ayako is not lucky.

  • My sister and her child were burned blood on this woman.

  • Just a chunk off, less melted, just unrecognisable.

  • By the end of the day, thousands more die from radiation duties, and when the darkness fell, we just stopped on the hill and watched all night the entire city burn.

on May the seventh, Germany finally soothe atrocities of Nazi brutality were reflected in the delirious joy of the liberated.

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