re: "...operative date..."
Still holding breath...
Hiroshima anniversary will be at 19h15 EST this evening (about 65 minutes from now!)
August 5 is also the date that Josephus reports that Herod's Temple to God was destroyed in AD 70 (Second time). The Temple was previoulsy destroyed by the Babylonians (quel irony) on THE SAME DATE the first time around!
Nothing like a little history to brighten your day.
sub6
Suppressed footage of Hiroshima after the bomb to air on cable TV
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/12314666.htm
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Sixty years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, a film documenting the aftermath is reminding Americans about the horrors of nuclear war.
Footage from a U.S. government-produced film, which was labeled top secret and kept out of public view for decades, is included in "Original Child Bomb," a documentary that will air on many cable stations Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the day that Hiroshima became the first city to suffer atomic attack.
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"Original Child Bomb" will premiere on the Sundance Channel this weekend, along with two other movies related to nuclear power, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the bombing in Japan.
Airtimes according to the channel's Web site:
Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 14 at 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 19 at 2 p.m.
Aug. 24 at noon.