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#Hiroshima: #Nagasaki: What did Oppenheimer and the Truman Administration know of radiation? Charles Pellegrino, author, To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Hiroshima: #Nagasaki: What did Oppenheimer and the Truman Administration know of radiation? Charles Pellegrino, author, To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima
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0:35.2

This is CBS Islandworld, I'm John Baxter with Charles Pelagrino, my colleague, he's the author

0:39.6

of, To Hell and Back, which is the last train from Hiroshima, is the story of the two bombs

0:46.8

dropped in anger in 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

0:52.2

However, there is a new hit movie I've not seen called Oppenheimer.

0:56.8

Charlie has seen it, and Charlie and I have been corresponding about it.

1:02.2

The original book published in 2005 that Hollywood says that it based the movie on, I have to

1:08.0

be careful here, because I've read the original book, but here we are, these many years later,

1:13.8

and Hollywood has a way of having to put scenes together that were not in the original

1:20.0

research.

1:21.0

Charlie, the question that comes to mind again, because I've been looking at the book to

1:26.8

the question about Oppenheimer, is in 1945, the explanation for dropping the bomb turned

1:34.3

on the war, the rationalization, the casualties, the threats to the fleet, is that question

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