We invited Hollywood director Oliver Stone to the NHK studios to share some of the insights that informed his unprecedented documentary series on the US history. In it he questions the commonly accepted belief that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the war. He also talks about the need for people to face up to history, and his first-ever visit this summer to the 2 atomic bombed cities, where he spoke to A-bomb survivors.