#Hiroshima: The US Interim Committee decision to use the first weapon, Little Man, on Hiroshima. Charles Pellegrino, author, To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
@BATCHELORSHOW
#Hiroshima: The US Interim Committee decision to use the first weapon, Little Man, on Hiroshima. Charles Pellegrino, author, To Hell and Back: Last Train from Hiroshima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_Committee
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Clicking collectors now available at Selected London Primark stores for kids, baby and nursery products. |
| 0:07.0 | Shop exclusive ranges online with a quick and easy checkout and store. |
| 0:11.0 | So, what are you waiting for? Go to Primark.com and shop Primark Clicking Collect today. |
| 0:16.0 | Little prices, big smiles. |
| 0:20.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:32.0 | August 5, 1945, Washington, D.C., August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan. |
| 0:43.0 | That is a date that is written in stone. The first atomic weapon is used in anger. |
| 0:49.0 | I welcome Charles Pellegrino. He is the author of To Hell and Back, last train from Hiroshima, |
| 0:56.0 | which is the story in great detail of the building of and launching of and dropping of the weapons |
| 1:04.0 | that we remember as the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 1:08.0 | It begins with decision making in Washington, D.C., which is why I give you the time in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:15.0 | with 7.15 pm on August 5, when the bomb exploded 8.15 am in Hiroshima. |
| 1:24.0 | The committee that made this decision was made up of distinguished VIPs of universities and also government, |
| 1:31.0 | led by James Burns, Henry Stemson, the Secretary of War, and James Burns, former U.S. Senator, |
| 1:38.0 | about to be Secretary of State from Mr. Truman. |
| 1:42.0 | It had others of great note, Vannever Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, |
| 1:48.0 | men from Carnegie, men from Harvard, but most importantly, because in the news these days is the movie Oppenheimer. |
| 1:56.0 | The scientific panel advising the interim committee to make the decision to drop the bomb, |
| 2:02.0 | consisted of Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton of the Manhattan Project, |
| 2:07.0 | a earnest Lawrence of the Radiation Laboratory, and J. Robert Obenheimer, who directed the assembly of the two bombs. |
| 2:16.0 | The two bombs used an anger. One little boy, that's the Hiroshima bomb, Hiroshima bomb, and two fat men. |
| 2:24.0 | I welcome Charles Pellegrino to help us understand the building of little boy. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

