Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
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Why did the U.S. military play a football game in Nagasaki just months after the atomic bombing?
The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." Less than five months later, the U.S. military staged an all-star football game on a killing field in Nagasaki, amid lingering radiation levels.. Why was the game played there? And why does the Nagasaki bomibing provide so many lessons and warnings for us today as nuclear dangers proliferate?
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Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Trailer - Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
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The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." Less than five months later, the U.S. military staged an all-star football game on a killing field in Nagasaki, amid lingering radiation levels.. Why was the game played there? And why does the Nagasaki bomibing provide so many lessons and warnings for us today as nuclear dangers proliferate?
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New Year's Day.
The most unique ball game was played that day across the Pacific in Japan.
It featured U.S. Marines on a makeshift gridiron near ground zero in Nagasaki, where tens of thousands had been killed by the atomic bomb less than five months earlier.
Why does the story of the atomic attack on Nagasaki provide so many warnings and lessons for today?
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