Hiroshima (film)

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decisionmaking processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. The threehour film was made for television Showtime Network and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing.

The film opens in April 1945 with the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the succession of Harry Truman to the presidency. In Europe, the Germans are close to surrender, but in the Pacific the bloody battle for Okinawa is still underway and an invasion of the Japanese home islands is not foreseen until the autumn. American battle casualties have almost reached 900,000, with Japanese casualties at 1.1 million, and somemillion Asian civilians have died in the war that began with Japans invasion of Manchuria in 1931.The new president knows nothing about the nuclear weapons being developed at Los Alamos, and he must soon decide on whether to use them and how. The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, has doubts even about the wisdom of the American firebombing raids on Japan. ........

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