From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Now. Japan held a memorial ceremony today in Hiroshima.

80 years ago today, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in history on the city.

Three days later, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed, many instantly, many more slowly from severe burns and what would come to be understood

as radiation sickness. We'll speak to journalist Greg Mitchell, who's reported extensively

on the U.S. Atomic Bomins. His new PBS film and book are titled The Atomic Bowl,

Football at Ground Zero and Nuclear Peril today.

But it was the site of the game that would prove disturbing.

On a makeshift gridiron near Ground Zero in Nagasaki, where tens of thousands had been killed by the atomic bomb less than five months earlier.

But first, we look at President Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

hours after the agency released a weaker than expected jobs report.

Trump claimed without any evidence that the numbers were rigged in order to make him look

back.

We'll speak to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

Trump's firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is not just shooting the messenger

with regard to data he doesn't like. It's actually

undermining the credibility of the most important source of information about the American

economy for the government, for the United States, for the world. This is beyond irresponsible.

We'll speak with Robert Reich about the world. This is beyond irresponsible. We'll speak with Robert Reich about the firing and also about his new book.

Coming Up Short, A Memoir of My America. All that and more, coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

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