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Fri, Aug 5, 2005 -- 10:00 AM

Hiroshima at 60
Forum looks at the bombing of Hiroshima -- and the lessons learned -- on the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.

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Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Jim Burch, mayor of Palo Alto. He was part of the U.S. occupation force in Japan after World War II

  • Lynn Eden, associate director for research at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies and author of "Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation"

  • Richard Frank, author of "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire"

  • Ron Takaki, professor of Asian-American studies at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb"

  • Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, professor of history and director of the Center for Cold War Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and author of "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan"

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