718 After the Bomb Nagasaki-Return Journey

First  viewed : 29  July  1985

This  was  one  of  a  series  of  programmes  to  mark  the  40th  anniversary  of  the  atomic  bombs  on  Hiroshima  and  Nagasaki  which  ended  the  Second  World  War. Ludovic  Kennedy  was  the  anchor man. The  one  I  saw  followed  Leonard  Cheshire, an  observer  on  the  plane  that  dropped  the  bomb  on  Nagasaki  and  a  British  P.o.W. who  saw  its  effects  on  the  ground  returning  to  the  city  to  chew  over  its  fate. Both  remained  convinced  that  the  bombing  was  necessary  and  justified.