On August 9 Truman dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, the plutonium bomb. 75,000 died the first year… We go into this bombing in detail in “Untold History.”
I was in Nagasaki at the memorial on August 9 when Prime Minister Abe gave his ‘abolition of nuclear arms’ speech. Meanwhile, Fukushima nuclear reactor is leaking badly and Abe's government refused to sign a Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. He’s now negotiating a deal on nuclear power with India. This is the same Abe who’s expressed nationalistic sentiments about Japan’s role in WW2, denying the Nanjing Massacre as well as Korean comfort women. He’s now pressing for sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, which Japan has claimed since 1895 in its war on China. China’s claim on it goes back to the 14th century. It’s a shame that strategic tensions have all been heightened by Obama’s ‘pivot’ to Asia.
My 10 days in Japan were a whirlwind. Peter Kuznick and I attended memorials and museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, protested the base in Okinawa, and spoke with the Japanese survivors of the atomic bombs and the media in Tokyo.
Oliver Stone.
I was in Nagasaki at the memorial on August 9 when Prime Minister Abe gave his ‘abolition of nuclear arms’ speech. Meanwhile, Fukushima nuclear reactor is leaking badly and Abe's government refused to sign a Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. He’s now negotiating a deal on nuclear power with India. This is the same Abe who’s expressed nationalistic sentiments about Japan’s role in WW2, denying the Nanjing Massacre as well as Korean comfort women. He’s now pressing for sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, which Japan has claimed since 1895 in its war on China. China’s claim on it goes back to the 14th century. It’s a shame that strategic tensions have all been heightened by Obama’s ‘pivot’ to Asia.
My 10 days in Japan were a whirlwind. Peter Kuznick and I attended memorials and museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, protested the base in Okinawa, and spoke with the Japanese survivors of the atomic bombs and the media in Tokyo.