Dates That Made History — Season 1, Episode 8: 6 August, 1945: Hiroshima
Documentary, War & Politics • 27 min • 3 seasons, 45 episodes • ★ 8.6/10
Episode synopsis
As opposed to the official discourse, the United States viewed the Hiroshima operation as a large-scale scientific experiment to force the Japanese to capitulate and avoid a Russian invasion of Japan. The first mass bombing of the History: maybe 70.000 sustained fatal injuries.
About Dates That Made History
Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.
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