AHTER 1948 Edward Murrow - I Can Hear It Now

In the days just prior to the E day, allied divisions in Germany began meeting the most extreme victims of fascism. Out of death factories, they began to emerge the living stumbling ghosts of Buchenwald, Dachau and 1000, and a new set of initials joined our language, D.P.

Albert Einstein, German refugee class of 33, Enrico Pheromie Italian exile class of 38, might well have been among them, among them, and we might have lost the Battle of the Atomic Scientists, which had its climax on the island of Tinian on August 645.

Now you're at the world's largest airfield on Tinian and the Marianas. The voice you hear is out of Chaplain William Downey, who stood amongst the target charts the escape kits in the stale coffee and set a prayer for the Enola Gay and Civilization.

pray that the end of the war may come soon, and that once more we may know peace, daughter. May the men who fly this night be kept safe and by care, and may they be returned safely to us. We shall go forward trusting in thee, knowing that we are in I care now and forever.

The name of Jesus Christ came in. The bomb run lasted four minutes. The bomb went away at 915. My God, this was the only entry in the cold pilot's diary. 78,150 people died at Hiroshima.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. We won the race of discovery against the Germans. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.