Investigations: In Search of the Art in Radio - Hiroshima Countdown

Programs & Series | Midday | Types | Reports | Interviews | Speeches | Documentaries | Topics | Military & War | History |
August 15, 1985
Studs Terkel - Commentator, Edward Teller - Interviewee, Alexander Sachs - Speaker, Gene La Rocque - Interviewee, Ellen Flanders - Interviewee, Orson Welles - Speaker, Paul Tibbets - Interviewee, Charles Sweeney - Interviewee, Alice Kimball Smith - Speaker, Walter Ross - Interviewee, Andrew Phillips - Narrator and Producer, Wilfred Burchett - Interviewee, William Laurence - Interviewee, Winston Churchill - Speaker, Mary Manning - Interviewee, Isaac Nelson - Interviewee, Linus Pauling - Speaker, John F. Kennedy Jr. - Speaker, Amy Goodman - Assistant Producer, Arlene Krebs - Assistant Producer, Peter Bochan - Technical Production, Stephen Erickson - Technical Production, Philip Morrison - Interviewee, Unknown - Interviewee and Speaker, Harry S. Truman - Speaker
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In marking the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the end of the second World War, a rebroadcast of a program entitled Hiroshima Countdown, which traces the development of the atomic bomb. Documentary includes commentary by Studs Terkel, author of The Good War.

“Hiroshima Countdown” was produced by the Investigations Radio Project.

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