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Summer of the Bomb
Did the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki really shorten the war and save Allied lives?
Based on American archive records, this dramatic account of the decision to use the atomic bomb reveals the reality of power politics - and pinpoints the origins of the Cold War. Presented by Dr Gar Alperovitz.
Photography MARTIN PATMORE Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD Film editor KATE EVANS Series editor ROY DAVIES Written and directed by ROBERT MARSHALL
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Contributors

Presented By:
Dr Gar Alperovitz.
Unknown:
Martin Patmore
Designer:
Barbara Gosnold
Editor:
Kate Evans
Editor:
Roy Davies
Directed By:
Robert Marshall
President Harry Truman:
Blain Fairman
Secretary of State James Byrnes:
Brian Greene
Secretary of War Henry Stimson:
Peter Carlisle
Admiral William Leahy:
Robert Arden
General George Marshall:
Paul Maxwell
Admiral James Forrestal:
Jerry Harte
Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew:
Robert MacLeod
General Dwight Eisenhower:
Tony Sibbald
Winston Churchill:
Alan Foss
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov:
Jeffrey Segal
Joseph Stalin:
Donald Tandy
Source: Radio Times

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