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Nagasaki 60th anniversary (16min)

(1) It's happened before. In one instant, with one single act, tens of thousands of people are killed. It's devastating when it's an act of nature. But how much worse when it's an act of man? Sixty years ago today, at least seventy thousand people died when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Charles "Don" Albury was the co-pilot of the Bockscar -- the B-29 that dropped that bomb. (2) On this the sixtieth anniversary of the bombing, questions are still being asked about the reasons behind it. And some of the answers are quite controversial. Mark Selden from Cornell University, and Peter Kuznick from the American University, believe the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't only about forcing an end to the Second World War.
Read entire article at CBC "As It Happens" (00:18-16:00)