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Title Rain of ruin : the bombing of Nagasaki / directed by Deborah Hinton
Published San Francisco, CA : The Video Project, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (57 min.)
Summary This powerful video features a comprehensive examination of one of the most important, yet little-understood episodes in modern history - the several months leading up to the atomic bombings of Japan, which both ended World War II and shaped the world's geo-political landscape for the next 50 years. To compel Japan's unconditional surrender, President Truman threatened a "rain of ruin," culminating in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. RAIN OF RUIN investigates the key political and military motivations for the atomic bombings, especially the Nagasaki bombing. Did Japan finally surrender because of the atomic bombs or were there other reasons? Was the bomb’s true aim to make an impression on Stalin? And, why did the Soviet Union enter the Pacific War on the very date Nagasaki was bombed? Top historical scholars present and discuss the principal theories, revealing the bombing to be a more complex historical event than commonly believed. The program draws on previously unpublished and declassified documents from the U.S., Japanese and Soviet archives, as well as remarkable film footage
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed May 25, 2017)
In English
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Personal narratives, Japanese
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
Atomic bomb victims.
Atomic bomb victims.
SUBJECT Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007157
Subject Japan.
Japan -- Nagasaki-shi.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Historical films.
History.
Personal narratives
Documentary films.
Historical films.
Documentaires.
Films historiques.
Form Streaming video
Author Hinton, Deborah, director