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It's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, September 26th, is the international for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

established by the United Nations General Assembly.

Leslie Sousan is a Maryland lawyer whose father was a U.S. Army videographer in World War II.

She joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about how he came to take film of the aftermath of the

dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

and how that film was classified top secret by the U.S. government for decades, and how the film is now being used today.

Let's listen.

Leslie Susson, thank you so much for joining me today. How are you doing?

I'm doing great. Thank you.

So we're here because of your interesting connection to the 80th anniversary of the dropping of

the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Agasaki. Can you explain that connection? Yes, my father as a young

man was in the army during World War II

and arrived with the occupation in Japan

and was assigned with the strategic bombing survey

to film with the crew the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And that experience changed his life, and I followed his footsteps to try to understand

what had happened and spent a year in Japan interviewing people that he had filmed and

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