IMPERIAL JAPAN, THE BOMB AND THE PACIFIC POWDER KEG

Peter Kuznick with Oliver Stone.

BARACK OBAMA'S recent high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that provided  endless justifications why the US used the atomic bomb on the Japanese people. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.

In this new episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews Dr. Peter Kuznick, co-author with Director Oliver Stone of the bestselling book and HBO series The Untold History of the United States about the real story behind the use of the atomic bombs—as well as the untold history of Imperial Japan, its role today for the US Empire, and the danger for new war on the horizon.