Forum looks at the bombing of Hiroshima — and the lessons learned — on the 60th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack.
Guests:
Ron Takaki, professor of Asian-American studies at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb"
Richard Frank, author of "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire"
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"
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"
Jim Burch, mayor of Palo Alto. He was part of the U.S. occupation force in Japan after World War II
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