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Presentation of Bill Lanouette, author to San Diego Air and Space Museum Volunteers on the decision to drop the A bomb which ended WW2 in the Pacific. Bill discusses a Library of Congress panel which agreed on the five reasons the decision was made to drop the bombs. And whether President Truman made the decision. From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/research/ Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission.
Type
moving image
Subject
San Diego Air and Space Museum Atom bomb Five reasons for atom bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki Library of congress Truman and atom bomb Szlard General groves B-29 Enola gay Bockscar Tibbetts Stalin End of war in pacific Decicision to drop atom bomb SDASM/Oral History Sdasm oral history
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