La7’s program wonders about the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A new episode de The tower of Babelthe deepening and culture program of Corrado Augias, who arrived at his second season on La7. In this new cycle, which started last September, the journalist and conductor has ranged from the history of Italy and the world to close topicality, proposing insights on the jubilee of 2025 and today’s family, but also on the state of democracy and the new world of Donald Trump. Tonight, Augias’s analysis will focus on consequences and dangers of nuclear weapons.
La Torre di Babel: the theme of today’s episode
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At the center of today’s episode de The tower of Babelone of the most controversial dilemmas of the twentieth century: The use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Almost eighty years after that tragic August 6, 1945, the event is retraced through documents, archival images and testimonies that still shake the collective consciousness.
The title of the episode, “Hiroshima 80 years later”, recalls the epochal scope of that choice: it was really necessary, as President Truman claimed, for accelerate the end of the war? OR remains an unjustifiable acthow do they say historians and survivors? The debate, far from closed, is strongly inserted in a present in which the spectrum of the nuclear weapon has returned to the speeches and in the contemporary geopolitical narrative.
The Tower of Babel, the guests
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To accompany Corrado Augias in this episode, two guests: lo Writer and physicist Paolo Giordano and the historic Michela Ponzani. Both will commemorate the documentary proposed during the evening in the studio, to outline the human and material impact of the bomb on Hiroshima together.
Giordano, who for years has wondered about the relationship between science and society, will bring to the table a reflection on the ambivalence of technological progress; In Ponzani, however, the task of reconstructing the historical context. Even tonight’s episode, as well as all the episodes of the first edition of The tower of Babel And those of the current edition can be recovered at any time on demand on the La7 website.
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