1945 U.S. ARMY REPORT ON ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN 25042

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Produced in 1945, "The Atom Strikes" was created by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictoral Division shortly after the end of the Second World War. It documents the findings of a commission sent to Japan to assess the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The film opens with footage of the blast of the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945. The film then focuses on the flight of the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" and its mission over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The narrator mentions the military significance of the city and the fact that the city's residents were warned about an impending attack. The results of the bombing are then explained, with footage and descriptions of how various buildings were affected by the blast at different distances from ground zero. Afterwards, an interview with Father John A. Siemes, a Jesuit priest who was living at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Nagatsuka, is shown giving a first hand account of the bombing. Siemes estimates that the bomb killed 100,000 people.
After the Japanese ignore an ultimatum, a second atomic bomb is dropped at Nagasaki. The narrator pointing out how much armament and other military supplies were being produced there. The effect of the atomic blast on local schools and churches is also shown.
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[@fnordly]

My dad was USMC 6th division. He believes Truman the and bomb saved his life. The Japanese always fought to almost the last man, fanatically, for the Emperor. The atomic bomb showed them no effective resistance was possible. The bombs convinced Hirohito that peace had to be made at once, and he stopped the war. My dad was a tough man but he always broke up telling how the women and children would jump off the cliffs rather than surrender. The Japanese would never have surrendered, despite any cost in lives, until the Emperor gave the order. Only he had the authority. A lifetime on, we today can't really put ourselves into the mindset of that time. The people alive then made the decisions, not us. We should take them at their word and give them the benefit of the doubt as they struggled their way through the worst war in history. They had no way to know what the future would hold, any more than we do. Are we doing any better?

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

This is the myth. Use...google.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@Woochinatchika Kokillibolinov use google

[@Ganderco]

@@kvarnerinfoTV Asking those who lived and fought through it is a better source than Google. You can find any opinion you want/prefer on just about any topic using Google. People use Google to find the Taylor made opinions/stories that they prefer and claim they've done their research. They slap the faces of those who fought for their freedom to choose to slap them in the face after preserving their freedom....how messed up is that. :/ Disgusting "in my opinion"!

[@davidwayschannel28]

@@Ganderco Use google, oh horse piss! You said it best all ready Gary so I don't have to!

[@lizlord4653]

to do what was done was necessary. Ironically it saved probably millions of lives on both sides. Many reading this today might not be here if it were not done. Those that dropped the bombs saved more lives than probably any other individuals in history. Of course it was horrific but the alternative would have been far worse and probably still being dealt with in ways today, one way or the other.

[@theallseeingeye9388]

Right or wrong, to judge actions of the past with todays mores and norms when we cant have a sense of historic reality and situation that called for the bomb to be dropped is not fair. Im sure those who were involved in making the bomb and calling for its use took their private grief with them.

[@BuzzLOLOL]

This is what happens to a country with modern technology, but 10,000 b.c.e. religious thinking...

[@shillymart2973]

Well i gotta say that doesn't look too powerful to me. A couple of blocks of ashes and buidings standing no more than 1/2 mile away....that doesn't add up...

[@rogerrice3669]

Don't pick a fight with the big dogs, Remember pearl

[@roysterfutrell8889]

@アルティメットふびん what does this say?

[@Four-of-Six]

'That's why the US only gets into a scrap with countries in the Middle -East and not with the big dogs like China, Russia or N-Korea...... yes, N-Korea, shite wee little country with stone age weapons but still......

[@Four-of-Six]

@アルティメットふびん あなたは素晴らしい仕事をした、 恥ずかしいことは何もなかった。アメリカ人が知らないのは、なぜ日本が戦争を始めたのか、何年も前に日本に何が起こったのか、です。アメリカ人は自分が善人、自由主義者だとしか思っていない。

[@theatomicclap5328]

Theres my earthshattering kaboom!!!!!

[@badmonkey2222]

Just think the atomic bombs of today are 100s of times more powerful than these bombs and usually 6 to 13 warheads on one missile.....

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

Bombs that powerful are rare today. Now bombs 10 to 40 times is more likely, due to the ability to get bombs directly on target and the ability to vary yield.

[@deafmusician2]

And each mirv (Independent Reentry Vehicle) is measured I'm MEGAtons, not KILOtons

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

There are no atomic bombs today!

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

@@kyokogodai-ir6hy wrong if you compare them to atomic bombs....and..there are no atomic or any kind of nuclear bombs today.

[@drwatsonca6945]

Keep telling youself that.

[@jamc666]

notice not one single mention of the human toll in this video ... besides the propaganda prepared speech by that priest (not his fault).

[@GhostSecuritySolutions]

More people died in the fire bombing of Tokyo

[@spydude38]

And they still refused to surrender.

[@marumarusensei1]

@@spydude38 But still, a deliberate indiscriminate bombing between civilians and military people was not legal then and not legal now.

[@gerometorribio2127]

True, the US firebombing of Tokyo inflicted a higher "body count" (not counting long term radiation effects). But the threat that hangs over us now is more Hiroshimas--no more incendiary bombs. I wonder how much radiation exposure the young US soldier who was pointing out details of the damage received. Back then we were just learning about radiation effects.

[@kev03103]

@@spydude38 Not really they were trying to negotiate. They wanted to dismantle their' military on their' own. They didn't want their' island invaded. They also wanted to keep their emperor.

[@worddunlap]

@@kev03103 No, they were silent. Considering they had thrown out all conventions of war there were no crimes. Since they lost they get no vote on the issue.

[@Rampant_Colt]

there wouldn't have been a Hiroshima or Nagasaki if there wasn't a Pearl Harbor

[@huntnwabbits8150]

Torpedo 8 - That fact has been lost to these people rewriting history. Japan got what it deserved end of story.

[@g00gleminus96]

How very simplistic of you.

[@ShadowReubenKee]

I guess the proper response is that then there shouldn't have been a pearl harbor.

[@videomaniac108]

@@g00gleminus96 The most profound truths in life are often the most simple concepts. This simplicity often eludes the limited intellectual capacity of the pseudo-intelligentsia.

[@parrotbrand2782]

Japan’s invasion of China and South East Asia messed up the lives of millions of people up to this day. Something had to be done.

[@rusty1187]

the admiral of the fleet that attacked pearl harbor said: "i fear we have awakened a sleeping giant..."

[@buzaldrin8086]

@Regular Guy > 6 P-51 U.S. Army Air Corps aircraft They were P-38 Lightning's. Sixteen (or eighteen) of them. Four were the designated "killer" group, with the rest providing cover. 1943 was before the P-51 was deployed in the Pacific.

[@davidpugh796]

...and filled him with a terrible resolve."

[@jackuzi8252]

The REAL reason for using the bombs: The Soviets had already taken Japanese Manchuria, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, and were poised to invade Hokkaido any day. The US was concerned that the Soviets having "boots on the ground" in the Japanese mainland would radically change the outcome of the war (there would have been a communist North Japan, just as there was an East Germany, and later North Korea).

[@chriswilde7246]

Agreed, in a way, as sad as it was, the Japanese were saved from Stalin, its now come to light, that he was almost as bad as Hitler. In many ways, even worse! As you probably already know...

[@roysterfutrell8889]

Stalin was much worse than Hitler. Stalin didnt care who he killed. Including his own people.

[@acornsoda22]

Completely wrong. Hiroshima was bombed August 6, Soviets didn't even start the invasion of Manchuria until August 9, Nagasaki was bombed a few hours later. The Soviets also didn't have enough landing craft to launch an invasion on the main islands. They had 30 large landing craft lent to them by the U.S. and lost 5 of them taking the Kuril Islands. Soviet officers often said that the operation demonstrated the difficulty of amphibious invasions of enemy territory and Soviet shortfalls and inexperience in amphibious warfare,

[@Premparkash24861]

Americans are bastards

[@phil20_20]

Yeah, this was what we call today, "a tactical nuke."

[@paulzaborny6741]

" 3 years of hard work done in secret" except for the Russian spies inside......

[@kolebuscher5733]

Still took em another 10 years. Pinkos are not intelligent critters

[@15kr]

@@kolebuscher5733 4 years

[@kolebuscher5733]

@@15kr equally unimpressive.

[@MuitoDaora]

Well, not spies, more like traitors.

[@johnmcentegart007]

All the scientists originated in Europe. Otto Han, Fermi Et al. To this day the United States dominates the Europeans and have been manufacturing wars to sell weapons under the auspices of freedom and democracy. Scandalous deceptive tactics are self evident

[@g18886]

For many years I assumed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were uninhabitable due to radiation. While in Japan for work I was surprised to hear from a Japanese that the cities were built back up and people lived there. I think it would be different had we exploded the bombs at ground level. We destroyed some of Japan's war production and killed people engaged in that production in hopes of shortening the war. Japan is fortunate that we weren't as cruel as them.

[@KC-dw6yz]

It was not a matter of mercy. The bombs were detonated at that height because it was exactly calculated to maximise the damage done. Exploding at ground level causes almost half of the energy to go straight into the ground, but explode too far away and the shockwave lessens. Thus, the setting - about 1900 ft.

[@hellomoto2084]

No sir you are not versed with physics then. Any nuke is detonated above ground so that air may spread radiotion better. And all the shockwaves travel in their full potential. As for hiroshima, well sir the soil was covered with new soil and if you have patience to dig really deep you will even today unearth skulls and human remains. Japnese were far far more bbrutal though

[@davebrock4463]

Imagine that many gone in an instant. Hope we never have another like this again.

[@rdhudon7469]

I imagine what kind of man my grandmothers brother was , but he was tortured and murdered by the Japanese .

[@seminolerick6845]

And many temporarily survived, only to perish later.

[@wb6162]

My Dad was a Marine in WWII and was on an invasion ship bound for the main islands of Japan when they dropped the bomb. I literally would not be here commenting if they had NOT dropped those bombs. The Navy's estimate was 90% casualty rate for the first invasion waves which my Dad would have been a part of. He survived Okinawa, Bouganiville, and other battles but he was convinced he would have not survived the battle of Japan. Thank God for Dr Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project heroes.

[@majorrgeek]

wb6162 - disgusting comment - you should never thank God for war crimes and war criminals - and next time, you pray to god to give you the wisdom you lack because those bombs saved no one and did not end the war

[@almostfm]

@@majorrgeek So you don't have a freaking clue, and decided to share that fact with us? The government was expecting casualties to be so high that they had a huge run of Purple Hearts made for the soldiers who would be wounded in the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands-500,000 of them. Because that invasion didn't happen, they weren't needed, so they were stockpiled. Almost 75 years later, wounded troops are still likely to get a Purple Heart originally slated for the invasion. Think about that-every killed or wounded solider in Korea, Viet Nam, Desert Storm, and Desert Shield and it still hasn't equaled the casualties the War Department was anticipating.

[@majorrgeek]

@@almostfm - nonsense the figures you mention were all estimates and you cannot start killing civilians based on assumptions they would attack you if invaded - your argument lacks the necessary self defense motive - nope, sorry "freaking clueless" would be you

[@almostfm]

@@majorrgeek Yes, they were estimates-based on the fact that the Japanese had fought to the last man on every insignificant lump of sand in the middle of the Pacific. In your mind, It would be shear madness to think that they might actually defend their home islands the same way. I mean, it's not like Japanese civilians by the hundreds of thousands would die in an invasion, right?

[@majorrgeek]

@@almostfm - take a lesson from the Russian August Storm invasion which began August 8 during which the Russians took more territory and advanced through greater Japanese enemy held area of land than we ever did - in fact the Russians handed the Japanese their biggest land defeat in all of Japan's history and made our conquests in the Pacific look like a skirmish - they Killed 90,000 IJA and took over 600,000 IJA POWs even though they swore a fight to the death so holding to the idea an invasion of Japan would be a fight to the death is just common garden nonsense - most figures you quoted were based on Okinawa, Jima Saipan etc were small scale attacks casualty numbers cannot be extrapolated onto larger scale invasions planned for Japan the Russian August Storm invasion proves that

[@Purplexity-ww8nb]

You can tell by the comments how young or old the people making the comments are. The older people who knew relatives directly involved in WWII, understand exactly that the bombs were completely necessary, as they knew the tenacity of the Japanese people, and the horrific loss of life of the American people. The Japanese were well underway to setting up intricate and powerful defenses of the Japanese homeland against the inevitable invasion forces of the Americans. American military planners estimated a loss of 500,000 to 1,000,000 men if the Japanese fought to the end. All indications were they were prepared to do exactly that. The Americans lost over 30,000 men on the small Japanese-held island of Okinawa. That doesn't include the dozens of other islands the Americans were forced to conquer on their march to Japan. The choice to end the war immediately by dropping the bombs was easy. However, the farther removed people are from the tragedy and memory of WWII, and the infiltration of the school system by revisionist historians, communist, progressive, and socialist teachers and professors, shows the reason why these wars will always be inevitable. The horror of war is soon forgotten and from time to time a reminder must be made that freedom isn't free.

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

Once again. Correct! Little Okinawa. Thirty THOUSAND young men (count them, you young ladies and gentlemen) lost their lives, just trying to stop Japan's mad "die for the emperor" superwasps. What the hell do you kids think was going on? Bombing of civilians. We are all "civilians" in the first place. The problem was that Japan refused to call a halt. It was Japan who claimed to have some kind of ultimate superpower (don't people GET that?), and it was Truman who said, "No you don't. We do. If superpower is the only thing you understand? Alrighty then." Life becomes cheap during a protracted war. Kids today just don't get that. The agony and loss of life would have been incredible if Truman hadn't used the bomb. You talk about relatives. I lost my father's older brother to the Nazis, and my parents' mental health to the Japanese. Of course I'm not alone. Kids today just don't get it. You seem to get it. My compliments toward your perception.

[@kevintucker3354]

Agreed. Not to mention, the alternative to the 2 big bombs would have been to continue the fire bombing which was being done before the nukes were used. I believe it was 11 cities that had been fire bombed day and night up until the nukes and had destroyed and killed far more than the nukes did. It’s a horrible thing to consider, but yeah I agree with you.

[@TowGunner]

Most importantly, both the Germans and the Japanese were working on the A Bomb.

[@russellbarnes7222]

If America did as you said, and just nuked the countries it had disagreements with then the other major powers would band together and destroy you. Your children would inherit a wasteland. I can't believe an educated man could spout such obviously self-defeating nonsense. Thank god none of your leaders were as ignorant of geopolitics as you (excepting the current one, who I have no doubt you support).

[@neon-john]

You drank too much of the Kool-Aid. I am very aware of geopolitics, probably more so than you. Previous administrations have been controlled by the deep state which is more than happy to have continuous conflict because it allows them to make more money on the international stage. We were sick of that behavior and so we elected President Trump. President Trump has demonstrated how to handle a potential international situation. He called Putin and told him that we were going to intervene in the Syrian war. So warned, Putin didn't have to put on a show of force. All he did was bitch a little. So it would be today. Pre-warned and with the knowledge that we have boomer subs off-shore which could put nukes on Moscow in mere minutes, Putin would bitch and moan and maybe try to shoot down some of our aircraft or sink a ship or sub or two. But he'd do nothing more. As for the rest of the world, Pffft. If President Trump were to turn the middle east into one giant glass-lined open oil mine, probably 90% of today's problems would have been eliminated. Doing the same to Afghanistan and Pakistan would solve most of the rest.

[@roysterfutrell8889]

It is probably worth remembering that America is the only country ever to actually use atomic bombs in a war. And we did it twice, not just once. That fact has probably had a psychological impact all over the world. We have proved that we will do it. It's possible that that is why we havent had to fight another world war for 80 years.

[@jibescene]

but now America is so afraid with Russia and Iran for their nuclear weapon.

[@roysterfutrell8889]

@@jibescene Are you commenting on the fact that the existence of nuclear weapons is dangerous?

[@PinkStarburst717]

Imagine how quiet it would have been afterwords.

[@Digi20]

i guess only for a very brief moment. but afterwards, it wouldnt. because most what was standing left burnt in a fire storm, and even relatively close to ground zero there were people, pets and animals still (barely) alive if they were sheltered by concrete buildings and walls, yet badly burned, blind, deaf and impaled and bruised by debris. there would have been water and gas lines leaking, smoke everywhere and shortly afterwards black rain falling. it surely would have looked, sounded and smelled way more hellish than in those later made recordings here. scary.

[@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY]

An absolutely ghastly bombing...100%. An absolutely necessary bombing...100%

[@drspaseebo410]

YES !

[@capricorn2816]

Remember Pearl Harbor! ⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️ Dropping those bombs saved many thousands of American lives from this ruthless aggressor. Thank the engineers and all involved in The Manhattan Project.🇺🇸😎 God Bless America

[@garym8348]

Ahh, the comments. Always there when I need expert opinions, with a touch of racial, religious and political slander. Let's see what brewed up...

[@davidh9844]

My father was a 21 year old kid with 2 years of college behind him and a B25 navigator in the Army Air Corp. Stationed on Tinian on August 6, 1945 - he said he slept through the takeoff of the Enola Gay, and learned about the raid only after Truman made his announcement. He would have been one of the first killed during the invasion, so I shed no tears over the use of the bombs. He was in Hiroshima, I don't know about Nagasaki. He was also in Tokyo. He told us that there was no difference in the destruction of Tokyo or Hiroshima. But all of his buds were shocked that Hiroshima took only one bomb, one raid only. They were also amazed that there was absolutely no animosity on the part of the Japanese toward the American occupying forces. As an officer, he was not repatriated to the US for many months following the surrender. He fell in love with everything Japanese, and for reasons my brother and I cannot understand, he never went back. He bought my mother a kimono which she never wore. We have several original Japanese prints that he bought while he was there that still hang in my house. I have been to Hiroshima. To say that it is humbling is an understatement. I met an angry Japanese protester next to the tower. He said his mother was a survivor, and so was he. I told him I was an American, I told him my story, and that I too was a survivor. He made no verbal comment, but I received a very deep Japanese bow from him. I returned one, not as deep, to him. I think we understood each other. The events were horrible, devastating, but no matter how much historical revisionism follows, no matter how much speculation of a Soviet invasion, those bombs ended the war. End of story. The planet, with minor skirmishes, has not seen a world war of this kind since, and it has been 75 years. Atomic bombs brought prolonged world peace.

[@diamondrobloxgamer8818]

Amazing story, your father was a legend. I salute him for his amazing service and sacrifices he has done to this world, he fought in the most hectic and hellish war in History. I myself am only 12, I have respect for my elderly and especially the soldats that sacrifice themselves just to make the world a better place no matter how little the dent is. Thank your father and god bless him.

[@0nezer046]

Most of the top American military officials at the time said the bombs were not necessary. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces at that time, said: "The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." He also said "Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary..." General Douglas MacArthur agreed Under Secretary of the Navy, Ralph Bird, said: "The Japanese were ready for peace, and they already had approached the Russians and the Swiss..." etc... The Justification was a lie for dropping nukes on civilian populations on a country that was already defeated, requested surrender around 14 times, only had one condition, to keep the emperor intact that was granted to them in the surrender anyway? What are you like 80 years old?

[@davidh9844]

@@0nezer046 Clearly the top officials at the time were wrong. As are you. If the Japanese were so ready to surrender, how do you explain the carnage and mass suicides on Okinawa?

[@tigermanmccool4037]

play with the Bull , you might get horned....Japan got horned

[@abrahkadabra9501]

At the time the A-Bomb was dropped, Japan was almost completely surrounded by the allies and we're cut off from the outside world...Japan was slowly starving to death. America and Americans were weary of war and almost out of money. The Russians had defeated the third Reich, were occupying most of eastern Europe and were massing their forces on the eastern front (close to Japan). Roosevelt had recently died and former vice president Harry Truman wanted a quick end to the war. To Truman the options were clear: end the war quickly with this new secret weapon (the A-Bomb), save the lives thousands of Americans, avoid a severe economic depression, keep the Russians out of Japan and show them this new deadly weapon. What would you do? Remember, millions had already died, you're broke ($$$), the Japanese have shown they'll fight to the last man, woman and child and the Communists are knocking at your door....no pressure pal, no pressure. But hurry up and make a decision!

[@hayseed5467]

...and every extra day that the war lasted was a day upon which my dad might die. That's enough reason for me. Not out of spite, not out of vindictiveness, not out of racism. Just out of love for my dad, your dad, and our country.

[@bigstyx]

Only less than 40 percent of the German army was fighting the USSR so I don’t think That they defeated Germany especially with the Americans aid LLA. Get your story straight.

[@TheDAWinz]

You're almost completely wrong. The bomb was part of the invasion, the US would be making 3 per month and by janurary 1946 would be making 10-20 per month. They were planning to drop it then advanced into the ruins of the bombed territory.

[@vincentporter4377]

What a tragedy, I can only hope that this never happens again to anyone. I try to imagine how horrible it wold be to go through that, and my mind draws blanks everytime.

[@rustyRGR275]

Wrong go back and re read some books not going to waste any further time on it but your very mistaken

[@joestihl2234]

japan would've never held off an American invasion full stop!

[@spydude38]

The problem of invasion of the Japanese mainland was that we would have lost many more American lives while having to kill every man, woman, and child to take the country, as everyone would have fought to the death. This was proven on Okinawa at great loss of America lives.

[@Rangernewb5550]

I heard nearly 80 years later we're still handing out purple hearts made in anticipation of the invasion of Japan.

[@D0S81]

20:30 a lesson we could all learn from. the people never hated us, because just like us, they were people.

[@charlesmcgill2974]

except they literally took allied airmen to universitys and desiccated them while alive.

[@thomasfx3190]

Yeah bullshit, they wanted to wipe white people off the planet. And almost did.

[@D0S81]

@@charlesmcgill2974 i'm not saying they followed what they said, im just saying its a shame we dont now.

[@n0madfernan257]

those innocent people couldnt have died if not for their leader's decision to conquer. the lowest of the people always suffer. god-emperor, do you still mourn?

[@johnmagill9496]

Also remember the Japanese were working on their own version of the atom bomb AND had every intention of using it on the allies, particularly the US. They were able to get a lot of research help from the Germans.

[@RonJohn63]

#1 Their research was *far* behind the US. #2 No uranium. #3 No way to get the bomb to the US.

[@howiedewin3688]

Has anyone else heard the story of a captured U boat enroute from Japan to Germany that contained a shipment of yellowcake, that was swifted to Oak Ridge for processing into some of the bahm fuel?

[@RonJohn63]

@@howiedewin3688 have you googled it?

[@howiedewin3688]

@@RonJohn63 brilliant idea! LOL it was boat U-234. and was headed TO Japan, not from. Ironic that in the end, delivery was still made.

[@Channelscruf]

RonJohn63 They still tried though

[@bo0tsy1]

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

[@majorrgeek]

bo0tsy1 - to date conventional bombs have killed more people in more countries than atomic bombs

[@arnenelson4495]

They started it. Recall Pearl Harbor? They got less than they deserved. Much less. Much, much, much less.

[@michaelcuff5780]

The sad part is the governments that start these wars are not the ones that actually suffer. Its always the people that really dont want war. Its always the politicians.

[@RonJohn63]

Except the ones who were killed during the war.

[@Cadcare]

I cannot imagine a period of human history that is more profound than those 3 weeks between the moment that the military had confirmed that the bomb functioned as theorised and its first use in war. However, I find it interesting, mid war - so-to-speak - that a drawing of a four engined aircraft (a bomber?) is on the classroom blackboard at 15:04. I say, "mid war" because, as I understand it, during those profound three weeks, no option of surrender from Japan was forthcoming. My father was in Hiroshima in 1946 driving one of those trucks, probably. His father, my grandfather, had died in the war. How could all of humanity, let alone those few few people who knew of the successful test, know what they had invented? Heady times, indeed. Blows my mind, no pun intended. Let's never do it again.

[@marguskiis7711]

The interview with the priest is amazing.

[@mariekatherine5238]

And true. The rectory was partially sheltered behind a small rise. What they don’t tell you was that the man was so traumatized, he struggled mentally for the rest of his life. Today, we’d recognize PTSD, but in 1945, you were expected to suck it up and keep your negativity to yourself.

[@patnolen8072]

Hubert Schiffer

[@airmuseum]

I have visited Hiroshima. It is a beautiful, modern, fully developed metropolis that one would never know was nearly completely destroyed. It was the headquarters of the Japanese Army Southern Command, The Naval Academy and a ship building industry. We warned the civilian population by dropping illustrated leaflets Our PC press won't tell you that.

[@Porkcylinder]

airmuseum what happened to the radiation?

[@jollyroger5319]

airmuseum they only warned of the second bomb though, the first bomb at hiroshima was dropped and they used a picture of the blast along with the text leave your city if its on the list as we are going to bomb you, to late for those at hiroshima, you wouldnt believe them though until you seen it anyway. Would you take note if russia started dropping leaflets all over your country saying they have the most powerful weapon in the world and are going to use it unless you fully surrender to all their conditions, or would you believe it and make your leaders obey them? you wouldnt actually believe them until you seen it used, and back then they didnt have youtube, digital cameras, or free media, you had to rely on what your government told you, just look back at the disney nazi videos, propaganda was used both sides of the war, the hiroshima bombing was quite easy for the leaders to hide from the rest of the country back then and claim instead they are winning the war.

[@vincentgallagher7562]

They dropped leaflets. That's rich.

[@craigwall9536]

Gamma radiation is simply a form of light- it does NOT make other things radioactive. Because the bomb was detonated well above the ground, the material in the bomb- which was the ONLY thing that remained radioactive- simply blew away downwind.

[@johnstewart6366]

Thanks for pointing that out, Craig. It's in the narration of this video, but the snowflakes and the news media just ignore it. Also in the narration, is the fact that most of the area of devastation, at Nagasaki, was in a valley, between 2 steep hills, which concentrated the damage to military targets.

[@TienShanTaoistInternalArts]

Pretty good, except adding in the explosion sounds was ultra stupid

[@Av8rThor]

Light travels faster than sound, that was six miles away, yes the light will arrive first.. I swear the iq of some of the commenters is... pathetic. Even if the sound was dubbed in, it was close to the real thing. Ever watch thunder and lightning. I guess nature didn’t dub the sound in, your way!

[@llennon73]

dont start nothin there wont be nothin...enough said

[@genataylor460]

I noticed during the video that the narrator was saying that there were few effects from the radiation. If I remember correctly, the effects did not start showing up immediately, but that many of the survivors eventually died of cancers from the radioactive exposure from the bombs, including some of our occupying forces. Am I correct about that - anyone know? I had read books about this but years ago. And while the bombs served the intended purpose of putting an end to the war, the devastation was severe enough that it has kept people from wanton use of nuclear weapons to this point.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Gena Taylor the effects of the radiation started within hours of the explosion. All who were exposed to the radiation suffered from diarrhoea (a systom of radiation posioning).

[@roysterfutrell8889]

I think air burst a specific distance above ground increases the "desirable" kind of damage and decreases residual radiation by not sucking up tons of soil into the blast. There is still some residual radiation, just a lot less.

[@Digi20]

yes, the high of the air blast was choosen as such to maximize the damage from the blast, and also minimize the radioactive fallout (either intentional, or as a sideefect, i dont know for certain). when the main fireball and the extremely hot center of the nuclear explosion does not touch the ground, there is not that much radiactive material left, and most of that is dissipaited in the air and goes upwards with the mushroom cloud. there is the intense radiation from the blast itself, but once that is gone, the area can be entered relatively safe. the people suffering the long term effects mostly were the people in the outskirts that got enough radtiation and burns from the blast to make them sick, but not enough to die (at least not for several month/years or even up to their natural death). if the bomb would have been ground detonated, the area would be completely uninhabitable, even today.

[@tonyadams8043]

I wonder how many of the people making the film suffered from illness later due to residual radiation. Nowadays they'd all be in special suits!

[@msbae]

The radiation had dissipated by the time the Signal Corps sent soldiers into the areas to record this footage.

[@wcatholic1]

These would be considered tactical weapons today.

[@majorrgeek]

wcatholic1 - even back in 1945 the power of destruction of the atom bomb fell well within the parameters of 900 b29 bombing raid using conventional weapons and in fsct the conventional raids caused more damage because they were spread over a large area unlike the concentrated blast of the atomic bomb in 1945 - our very own General LeMay in charge of the bombing of Japan even said "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all." and the ww2 Prime Minister Suzuki of Japan on Aug 13 "If we miss today, the Soviet Union will take not only Manchuria, Korea, Karafuto, but also Hokkaido.This would destroy the foundation of Japan. We must end the war when we can deal with the United States.” two very important statements for you to think about

[@majorrgeek]

@Time to make Changes - yes it is time to make changes to your knowledge of history - the Soviet invasion of Hokkaido, Western historians who have studied the issue, such as Glantz and Frank, have concluded that such an invasion would have a large probability of success - "the Soviet Navy's amphibious shipping resources were limited but sufficient to transport the three assault divisions in several echelon(s).....given the size of Hokkaido, the Japanese would have been hard pressed to move units for a concerted confrontation of the Soviet invasion. The chances of Soviet success appeared to be very good" Richard B Frank - Downfall, p323 - as it turned out Truman finally negotiated a conditional surrender with Hirohito mainly to prevent Russian forces from landing their forces in Hokkaido - Stalin cancelled the Hokkaido invasion when he saw that Japans surrender was inevitable and further Russian advance would damage relations with the allies and possible lead to U.S. naval action, and possible conflict. the Soviet invasion was well within the Soviet Navy and Aircorps capability although about 15,000 will do to secure a port for more troops to be landed - that's about 1% of the total Soviet force - In operational time limit the Soviets had carried out three widely spaced amphibious operations in the space of four days. On August 18, 9,000 troops landed on the Japanese islands of Shumshu and Paramushir in the Kuriles - on Aug19, 10,000 soldiers landed on the southern half of Sakhalin Island, joining Soviet forces advancing from the north on August 22, 7,000 Soviet soldiers landed at Wonsan in Korea. all together these three operations stretched the Soviet sealift capability in the Pacific to their limit but if we combine the soldiers carried by these three operations, we get a total of 26,000 more than enough and puts to rest your crap about nil seaborne assault ability once and for all - The Soviets seaborne and airborne landings, can expect to put 1-2 divisions ashore on Hokkaido in the first 24 hours of the invasion. The Japanese, in the face of complete Soviet air superiority, cannot mass and counterattack quickly enough to defeat the beachhead in those 24 hours, and by the next day, it will likely be too late. 48-72 hours from the initial landings, the Soviet forces will have large amounts of armour ashore, and once Soviet tanks make landfall, the Japanese have nothing that can stop them. Soviet had complete air superiority over Japan - if individual Japanese planes did take off from their airdromes Russian fighters almost instantly shot them down Superiority of Soviet aviators was ensured by three basic factors - quantity the USSR had warplanes quality Soviet planes and bombers possessed much higher tactical and technical characteristics and Russian pilots who had acquired enormous combat experience in battles with the Luftwaffe proved to have higher flying skills than the Japs - irrespective of your nonsense the fall of Hokkaido will be assured your comment "The Soviets were less relevant to the Japanese surrender then the Western Allies were to the German Surrender." is simply ad nauseum nonsense - the Japanese surrendered for their reasons not your or those invented by our allies - read what Hirohito said August 17 speech "Now that the Soviet Union has entered the war against us, to continue the war under the present internal and external conditions would be only to increase needlessly the ravages of war finally to the point of endangering the very foundation of the Empire's existence With that in mind and although the fighting spirit of the Imperial Army and Navy is as high as ever, with a view to maintaining and protecting our noble national policy we are about to make peace with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and Chungking." - consider yourself mythbusted

[@bo0tsy1]

@@majorrgeek But goes to show, Capitulation to the US was far better than occupation by communists. Who at the time, peicemealed a force to enter Korea. It's like you think the entire Russian air force could travel 5000 km in a day are best yet your assumption that the entire Russian Army could be deployed that fast.

[@majorrgeek]

@@bo0tsy1 - "the entire Russian Army could be deployed that fast." ?? who said anything about the entire Russian army? - you have to remember Stalin's plan was simply to land forces on Hokkaido and spill Russian blood and Hokkaido would be his just imagine the headlines the Russians beating the USA to the invasion of Japan - that would have meant impeachment for Truman?, maybe so if Trump can be impeached on nonsense - the real key to Japan's "early" surrender was the Russian decision to invade Japan - had the Russians decided to remain neutral Japan would never had surrendered when it did - Stalin's hegemonic desires were well known to the world and Hirohito made the right decision to surrender after the Russians started their onslaught on August 8, 1945 - The Soviet declaration of war also changed the calculation of how much time was left for maneuver. Japanese intelligence was predicting that US forces might not invade for months. Soviet forces, on the other hand, could be in Japan proper in as little as 10-20 days. The Soviet invasion made a decision on ending the war extremely time sensitive. And Japan’s leaders had reached this conclusion some months earlier. In a meeting of the Supreme Council in June 1945, they said that Soviet entry into the war “would determine the fate of the Empire.” Army Deputy Chief of Staff Kawabe said, in that same meeting, “The absolute maintenance of peace in our relations with the Soviet Union is imperative for the continuation of the war.” and Prime Minister Suzuki ww2 said Aug 13 “If we miss today, the Soviet Union will take not only Manchuria, Korea, Karafuto, but also Hokkaido. This would destroy the foundation of Japan. We must end the war when we can deal with the United States.” Hasegawa - Racing the Enemy p 237 - I could go on but surely this is enough convincing evidence

[@15kr]

Geez you guys - what about short funny comments?

[@johannjohann6523]

Amazing, remarkable, and ultimately frightening.

[@D0S81]

him going on about the japanese admiring the technical skill of the amercans....was that just propaganda he had been told to say? just with the weird jumpcuts. alsoapologies for all my spam. its a bad habit of having thoughts as i watch and then just wanting to put them out into the void for noone to read.

[@michaelozybko1859]

It looks like my birthplace, Detroit Michigan, USA. Detroit looks like a much larger bomb went off though because the entire city has pockets of destruction and on some streets every other house has been burned down.

[@erich84502ify]

Detroit has good areas AND bad. Some cities stay dead or get deader.

[@ironmanh8sall]

Damn Democrats...

[@kev03103]

What happened to Detroit?

[@Purplexity-ww8nb]

Meanwhile, while the Democrats were slowly nuking Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. etc., Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt into clean, modern, gleaming cities.

[@majorrgeek]

@@iron60bitch62 - actually the Republicans were urging all along for Truman to modify the conditions of the surrender ultimatum to speed up the surrender process without using the bombs - as I recall reading Churchill too had urged Truman to reconsider his demands because his earlier demands for unconditional surrender were delaying the war and played into the hands of the hegemonic commies

[@brucebartman4782]

15 Kiloton bomb did this much damage to Hiroshima. Compare this to "Tsar Bomba" detonated by the Soviet Union with the explosive of 55 Megatons. Just say NO to war!

[@spydude38]

Unfortunately war is never going away. As long as humans believe they can force another nation to capitulate to them, wars will continue. Its the matter of how those wars will be fought which will continue to impact millions.

[@xx-bg2dj]

war is fun

[@bryanguzik]

Thank you so much. Seen bits & pieces of this footage (likely from here) over the decades. But never knew it was its own production. More to the point, it brought me back to reality. The increasing yields creating in my mind the idea these were somehow quaint or "starter" bombs. [btw, 100% behind their usage. Yes, of course they were awful. But do Not believe reports that some diplomatic alternative (by way of Russia, etc.) was coming. It is more re-writing by self-damming Americans. For a while I was a believer. But no, landings were next, & they absolutely preferred the extinction of their being to surrender. As we EASILY might do ourselves today were it us]!

[@paulmaxwell8851]

The Japanese were treated with kid gloves. If I were in charge things would have been much, much worse for them. I salute our American neighbours and thank them for their determination and sacrifice. Without them we would all be slaves to an evil empire. Cheers from Canada!

[@majorrgeek]

Paul Maxwell - don't forget the Russian allies their determination and sacrifice was far greater than even USA

[@hypothebai4634]

But, in 1945, you were the slaves of an evil empire - the British empire.

[@majorrgeek]

@Southeastern777 - maybe but we also had our agendas and the Russians were after all our WW2 Allies and their determination and sacrifice was far greater than even USA without which the outcome of the war could have been different

[@majorrgeek]

@Southeastern777 - still does not change the fact that the Russians won European WW2 almost singlehandedly in fact when they defeated the so called Invincible German Army on the massive Eastern front they did it without any help from Allied or USA ground or air forces in the east and they were instrumental in forceing the Japanese to surrender on Sep 2 with their massive August Storm ground attack on the Japanese in fact they handed Japan its biggest land defeat in all of Japan's histpory - we don't hear about all of this in the west because we glorify our own victories to make it sound like we were the king dicks winning WW2 - yes they stole the a bomb design but they were the first to make the Hydrogen fusion bomb and I believe we also stole some of those designs from them

[@hypothebai4634]

@84 LoneDreamer84 The British Empire most certainly did have policies of genocide and it executed these policies many times. Whether they were 'official' or not is a distinction without a difference.

[@wlt16]

Not Humanities finest hour.... but unfortunately a Necessary Evil. The war had to stop...

[@nimrodquimbus912]

It was the worst hour for America's enemies, and finest for America.

[@jediknight2627]

Necessary evil...one of the 3 b-29 bombers that went on the mission to drop the atom bomb on hiroshima. Fun fact. Enola gay, necessary evil, and another b-29 went woth. It didnt have a name at the time. But the plane was named after some time wards.

[@billythekid3234]

@@jediknight2627 It was named BOX CAR before it went and bombed Japan.

[@Videoscape]

A location where one can witness such a dead landscape, Coffee Park California. 2 years ago a fire leveled the place entirely, only thing left standing was a few chimney's!

[@FoardFow]

North Korea remember this...Times 1000...

[@sputumtube]

Seeing the 'in-blown' windows of one side of that school and the 'out-blown' windows of the other side made me think - 'children were in there'.... :(

[@gonebamboo4116]

Me too :'-(

[@whackadim2250]

Japan had a chance to surrender after the first bombing..but.....

[@majorrgeek]

Whack a Lib - stupid comment - you cannot blame Japanese leaders for the crimes of the USA

[@vaschy2330]

majorgeeek u seem really mad replying to everyone lmao.

[@majorrgeek]

@@vaschy2330 - I am passionate about this topic - you have a problem with that?

[@whackadim2250]

@@majorrgeek Cry me a river, bright boy....

[@majorrgeek]

@@whackadim2250 - looks like you best me to it

[@MarvelousD-rw1gp]

Old white faces tragedy

[@genataylor460]

Wonder how many of our occupying troops suffered later from radiation poisoning.

[@mordechaijonez3812]

What accent does the Jesuit priest have?

[@mordechaijonez3812]

German? That would be ironic.

[@worddunlap]

I love how the narrator made it a civil zoning issue about 13 min in....I am all for the defensive bombing but found the zoning comments hilarious.

[@LydellAaron]

For the most part safety critical structures, such as schools, hospitals, and civic buildings stood.

[@C.Brock3rdID]

Sounds of the blast shouldn't have been heard until roughly 30 seconds after detonation. Can't stand when producers and sound engineers fake that crap to wow the audience.

[@majorrgeek]

C Brock - you should be more concerned about the Truman Govt faking the news surrounding the bombings simply to justify a war crime

[@boedude8496]

@@majorrgeek dropping the bomb was a war crime?

[@majorrgeek]

@@boedude8496 - killing 200,000 innocent civilians is a war crime

[@boedude8496]

@@majorrgeek a large percentage of those were either military or civilians working in the manufacturing/distribution of war materiel. as we see with isis they locate their military presence in with the population, in part to act as a deterrent to attack. that aside, the purpose behind fighting a war is to win. the loss of '200,000' civilian lives prevented the loss of over millions of combined japanese and allied lives from an eventual and inevitable invasion of the country. their soldiers were commanded to fight to the end, and the civilians were propagandized into believing that allied soldiers were ravaging marauders that would rape and slaughter them, so much that hundreds on the smaller islands committed suicide to avoid being captured..which they were not going to be. so you can cry war crime all you want, but the facts are that the sacrifice of those 'innocent' civilians saved countless lives and suffering. most importantly from our side

[@majorrgeek]

@@boedude8496 - unless you can prove that every civilian, woman and child even babies in nappies killed at Hiroshima were ALL combatants the murderousness of the bombings is undeniable - also you cannot start killing civilians based on an assumption they would not surrender and attack you if invaded even before the invasion began - your argument fails the self defense motive

[@lauralewis5726]

Bet this soldier had no idea of the radiation he was getting... smh...

[@josephastier7421]

The Former Bank of Japan building, 0.38 km from the hypocenter, was open for business two days after the bombing.

[@majorrgeek]

Joseph Astier - not too many withdraws and deposits after the bombing !!

[@thomasfx3190]

Sure but everyone who had any money was bbq.

[@嫌韓太郎-p7c]

死体が全く映っとらんな

[@donsmith2833]

I am so distracted every time the narrator says "ruf" :)

[@8800081]

Work done in unprecedented secrecy LOL the Russians knew about Los Alamos since day one and they were halfway on their way to building one when we exploded our first one.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Byte Me Claus Fuks

[@mattikaki]

Please REMOVE the TIME CODE, it ruins the film, thanks.

[@almostfm]

Periscope sells the films for use in documentaries. By putting the time code and website on the screen, they can make sure that someone doesn't just grab the video off KZbin and use it without authorization.

[@riderinthesky2265]

Their emperors/leadership is to blame. They started it. The US had no choice but to show japan's emperor/leaders they should never have started the war.

[@faffabout9412]

Shingen Fujiwara accept the emperor survived, and the leaders responsible didn’t have to listen to their child burn to death, or see their skin melted off like wax, or suck on black rain just to survive... so ya.... justice....

[@kiheirc3195]

I could not agree with you more the use of the atomic bomb was essential to end this war as quickly as possible and invasion would’ve involved in Russia as well Japan would not exist as we know it today

[@kiheirc3195]

And we should have continued to use this weapon to hold the Korean War and stop communism communism which has killed more lives than any other ideology

[@15kr]

No doubt, total war is horrifying. I have visited the Peace Museum in Hiroshima. Glad it's there.

[@johnhopkins6260]

As for those desirous of dying for ones' Emperor...

[@stephensellers2453]

Plenty of scrap steel for Japan now.

[@unitedwestand5100]

It does my heart good to see this damage.....

[@muzmason3064]

The irony of comments about the non zonal living conditions at about the 13 minute mark!

[@shenghan9385]

Er. Er. Er... It's not our fault. Blame the slack Japanese zoning law for the mass killing. Lmao

[@spydude38]

@@shenghan9385 Japan to this day still has no zoning laws like in other nations. They do this because of the limited space today in which there is to build anything. Then again, nobody anticipated then anything like a nuclear bomb detonated over their city.

[@TheDustysix]

I served at MCAS Iwakuni Mag-12 May 78/9. I have visited Hiroshima numerous times.

[@Dadsezso]

Hello TheDustySix. I was at Iwakuni MAG-15 from July 75 to Sep 77. Made a few trips to Peace Park in Hiroshima.

[@glitchhunter8977]

Now I learned that this is real by the time the Beirut explosion occurred.

[@kevinharris5737]

Awesome

[@TexasNightRider]

It was a brutal war in the Pacific with a determined enemy. How history would have been changed by giving a demonstration to the Japanese versus actually utilizing the weapons we'll never know but I'm sure that was evaluated before making the final decision. Still perhaps a million American casualties were prevented by not having to invade the mainland.

[@l8tbraker]

blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/03/06/to-demonstrate-or-not-to-demonstrate/

[@davidrahrer]

If they didn't surrender after the first bomb dropped on a city, I doubt any demonstration would have changed their minds.

[@majorrgeek]

@@davidrahrer - the Russians said the bomb was directed more at Russia than Japan "they(US) are killing Japanese and intimidating us" - they were right

[@paulbonadies9962]

Wouldn't that guy be exposed to mega radiation??? He did everything short of tasting the burn powder.

[@Ocinneade345]

Absolutely terrifying

[@calvinedwards5771]

One of Technologies greatest accomplishments ever the reason why the world must find an alternative to this Western technology

[@deepinfo9753]

Gorkhaas is the allies for surrender and peace and economic development of Japan

[@bellfefe]

He. So called father reading from script. Said justified. We all know who was involved. They here now...falling

[@kaisermuto]

USA wished to make experiment of nuke. Japan provided to surrender as far as Japanese emperor could stay as it was. The existence of emperor is not decided by emperor. During every era, emperor had never gotten political power. USA did not know about Japan absolutely.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I am from england and our war was done in 1945...in regard to japan it would of made no difference to europeans whether the japanese surrendered or not as it din't affect us...japan could hardly invade england for example so this was a personal affair between japan and the united states and these bombings were based on the supposition that an invasion of japan was imminent but in retrospect the americans hardly gave the japanese enough time to assess the damgae of the bomb and surrender...personally i feel japan would of surrendered without the use of atomic bombs as the soviet union had declared war on japan.

[@yvanmcgregor5823]

Much-Much gratitude+++++++:)

[@shillymart2973]

7:58 what??? is that a guy sweeping the floor?? this looks like a school that is being built not one that got destroyed. No fire marks anywhere on outer walls. That's strange!!!

[@bigron26048]

People need to remember, the Japanese started this war with us at Pearl Harbor I feel the Atomic Bombs not only brought a swift end to the war but was also payback.

[@flouisbailey]

Don’t forget German Atomic research, they had the V2 for delivery, London could have been target one.

[@artjohnLagas-gk6mg]

Looking at everyone that got burnt to a crisp remember the Japanese atrocities

[@hayek218]

You are brainwashed by war propaganda to control the dumb mass like yourself.

[@soulscanner66]

This proves that the mass slaughter of women and children was pure revenge.

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

--> Guy Souriandt. "This proves?" You're turning out to be creepily obsessed. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nothing compared to WWII. Revenge was not the issue. STOPPING the Nazis and Japanese aggression was the issue. Try getting that into your creepily obsessed head. Do you know anything, or are you just obsessed? Their A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N was the issue. Murderous group of people. And your point? Nothing.

[@hayek218]

David Brown Asia: Japan fought against the whites who were enslaving Asia for hundreds of years, not against the natives. What do you think the whites were doing in Asia? Charity? There were only about 60 countries in the world at the time, of which only 10 non-white countries were not yet colonized by the whites. And the figure was decreasing. Japan was the last country in Asia remaining totally independent, and within several years of the War all the countries were freed. Who do you think formed and trained their armies in Asian countries, which fought against the West when they came back to recolonize after the WWII? You think the Asians were holding US guns or Japanese guns? Or, do they grow on trees? For example, today, some 3,000 Japanese lay buried with orders in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. Everybody in Indonesia including those in the first subsequent independent Government and Army like the first President Sukarno, Bun Tomo, Aramasa, Sanpas, Hatta, etc. were holding Japanese guns and fighting with the Japanese.

[@hayek218]

David Brown China: It is the Han Chinese that attacked Japan first. Japan first got that part of Manchuria from Russia, not from China. The Han Chinese had never ruled Manchuria in their history. Never. Also they hate the Hans. When Qing fell, ROC asked Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur, and Tibet to join. But they all refused. In case you did not know, even though they boast about their five thousand year history, China was first united only less than three thousand years ago, and it was not by the Han Chinese. Since then, China was united for two of the three thousand years, and the Han Chinese only ruled for a total of six hundred years during the Former Han, the Latter Han and Ming. Other dynasties were established by other races, so Manchuria, Mongol, Uighur and Tibet were never ruled by the Han Chinese. Before the 20th century, China was the name of the land, not of a country: there were just different dynasties or country of different races occupying the land called “China." Even though you may think Panda are Chinese, they were always Tibetan's and never belonged to the Han Chinese in history. The Whites are brainwashed and fooled by the Han Chinese. Also, because the West accepted the lie that Manchuria belongs to ROC before the WWII for their benefits, nobody today can deny the Han Chinese's rights on Tibet, Uighur and Inner Mongol; Nixon and Kissinger were made to swallow the One China Policy by Mao; this issue became an internal issues of “China”; and any local protesters become terrorists.

[@shillymart2973]

shouldnt we see fire makrs everywhere?? buildings look like been destroyed with a hammer not with a bomb...

[@ArekishiKishi]

And today is a G7 meeting in Hiroshima - hopefully we dont have to use atomic bombs ever again

[@bremnersghost948]

around 18mins notice how the Jesuit survivors closely cropped hair is very patch, I think he was already suffering radiation sickness at time of filming

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Bremner's Ghost he was. The building he lived in was double braced against earthquakes, which is on reason it survived the explosion with little damage.

[@hiyosilver100]

This is taken not long after the alleged bomb. Curiously, there is no concern for the military personnel about the radiation levels which surely would still be high.

[@bimmersf1057]

Andrew J i

[@mariekatherine5238]

No, and for this reason, my Godfather, Robert Henry Mack, passed away, 1919-1965. RIP.

[@kenibnanak5554]

"After the alleged bomb?" LoL, looks more factual than alleged to most of the planet. The biological effects of radiation still wasn't really understood by the top bras for decades to come. They believed anything less than 5 rads an hour was probably safe. As stated it was decades before they understood some of the side effects of exposure would take decades to show up. This was aided by General MacArthur deciding that any deaths of people who had lived in Hiroshima or Nagasaki during the bombing dying any more than 14 days after the bombing should not be tied to the bombing. Even if it was obvious to anyone watching them die it was. What we saw in America with John Wayne's death of radiation induced cancer in 1979 from filming in 1956 in an area where the US had discontinued nuclear testing a decade earlier was that entering an irradiated area is never smart or safe. Of the 220 people involved in lilming that movie (The Conqueror) 159 others also died of radiation induced cancers. Japan's experience was similar. If you include the death rates of cancer after the nuclear bombings and compare it to the death rates of cancer before the war, and add in the still births and miscarriages the number of dead from those bombings in Japan reaches into the millions. So too with the Americans involved. Oppenheimer, his daughter, many of those sent to occupy Japan (if not killed in Korea a few years later), etc. Radiation is a gift that keeps on giving for hundreds of years.

[@mikeskelly2356]

The sailors who were sent to 'clean up' the ships exposed to the atomic tests were tasked with using sea water. The sea water was far more radioactive than the ships were and hundreds were exposed to radiation levels that would eventually kill them decades later...

[@waynepatterson5843]

Ken ibn Anak --- "Japan's experience was similar. If you include the death rates of cancer after the nuclear bombings and compare it to the death rates of cancer before the war, and add in the still births and miscarriages the number of dead from those bombings in Japan reaches into the millions." Your remarks are fiction and disinformation used as false propaganda. The allegations that the cancer related deaths of the cast for the Conquered motion picture were excessive compared to natural rates of cancer are unsubstantiated and highly speculative. The numbers of individuals and cancer cases involved are widely divergent and disputed. The incidence of cancer related deaths caused by exposure to radiation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is measurable in a couple to several dozens of such deaths out of the tens of thousands of of people exposed to that radiation. See: Jordan, Bertrand R. The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception. ABSTRACT The explosion of atom bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in very high casualties, both immediate and delayed but also left a large number of survivors who had been exposed to radiation, at levels that could be fairly precisely ascertained. Extensive follow-up of a large cohort of survivors (120,000) and of their offspring (77,000) was initiated in 1947 and continues to this day. In essence, survivors having received 1 Gy irradiation (1000 mSV) have a significantly elevated rate of cancer (42% increase) but a limited decrease of longevity (1 year), while their offspring show no increased frequency of abnormalities and, so far, no detectable elevation of the mutation rate. Current acceptable exposure levels for the general population and for workers in the nuclear industry have largely been derived from these studies, which have been reported in more than 100 publications. Yet the general public, and indeed most scientists, are unaware of these data: it is widely believed that irradiated survivors suffered a very high cancer burden and dramatically shortened life span, and that their progeny were affected by elevated mutation rates and frequent abnormalities. In this article, I summarize the results and discuss possible reasons for this very striking discrepancy between the facts and general beliefs about this situation. [....] Table 1 Observed and excess solid cancers observed up to 1998 in the exposed group, according to radiation dose Cancers...Life Span Study subjects Weighted colon dose (Gy) 0.005-0.1 to .2.0 Total 44,635...Observed Total 7851, Estimated excess Total 848.... This is a simplified version of Table 9 in Preston et al. (2007), which tabulates all cancers observed from 1958 through 1998 among 105,427 LSS cohort members. LSS, Life Span Study. [....] Studies on Survivors In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was extensive mortality in the days and weeks following the bombings, representing perhaps10%of the casualties. It is difficult to separate the effect of radiation (acute radiation syndrome, ARS) and, possibly, of contamination from the consequences of burns since most victims suffered both. Early studies, however, indicated that the median lethal dose (LD50) from whole-body gamma radiation is ~2.5 Gy when little or no medical assistance is available (5 Gy with extensive medical care). This estimate is based on early studies at the bomb sites, but with dose estimates refined according to later studies. [....] The picture obtained from these extensive and careful studies is very different from the impressions that prevail in the general public and even among many scientists (Perko 2014). The general perception is that survivors from these cities were heavily affected by various types of cancer, and suffered much shorter lives as a result. While it is true that the rate of cancer was increased by almost 50% for those who had received 1 Gy of radiation, most of the survivors did not develop cancer and their average life span was reduced by months, at most 1 year. Likewise, it is generally thought that abnormal births, malformations, and extensive mutations are common among the children of irradiated survivors, when in fact the follow-up of 77,000 such children (excluding children irradiated in utero) fails so far to show evidence of deleterious effects (Douple et al. 2011; Grant et al. 2015). These studies should, of course, not lead to complacency about the effects of accidents at nuclear power plants, and even less with respect to the (still possible) prospect of a nuclear war, that would involve huge amounts of fallout and very large exposed populations. Nevertheless, concerning the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, there is indeed a large gap between the results of careful studies backed by more than 100 scholarly publications, and the perception of the situation as seen by the general (and even scientific) public (Ropeik 2013). Table 2 Observed and excess leukemia deaths observed up to 2000 in the exposed group according to radiation dose Deaths...Weighted marrow dose (Gy) Total...Subjects 49,204...Observed 204...Estimated excess 94....

[@johnnyhawkins43]

This kind of shit should and musant never ever be used again and I wish it was never invented by anyone!

[@1995jug]

You reap what you sow.

[@majorrgeek]

joe tiller - looks like you didn't reap much information to sow

[@majorrgeek]

@@asbestosfibers1325 - sorry, I can't explain it any simpler to a fool

[@allgood6760]

Q: What is the difference between Hiroshima and Tehran? A: Nothing yet! 🤔

[@jsl151850b]

Is there a version of this movie that is still secret? Deemed too horrific to show to the public?

[@davebeals1718]

Can only imagine what a modern nuke can do.

[@xx-bg2dj]

neutron bombs kill the people and leave the buildings. should be used more often

[@commonsense31]

So Radioactive fallout wasn't that severe?

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

The reset button for humanity..

[@deanalexander1029]

Beautiful. Nicely done.

[@martymethuselah]

Fun Fact: the Japanese sweetest 'Misery' was Missouri loo.....the USA public was happy to end the war with a TV show... the Japanese took the 'ware' fares to wealth and domination over the USA market and world with electronics and expertise of control of infrastructure..... USA still has it 'Misery' TV show ... thanks to the Treaty of San Francisco that gave Japan the win by Trade Capitulation and Proclamation 2714 by Truman that ended the hot war for USA on Dec 1946, the Japanese were able to liberate China and establish Taiwan and India as free nations... USA ended up losing its War and Dept of war...USA was forced to form a self Defense Force in 1948... Read the Laws..not the TV..Missouri is a fictional propaganda film to disguise that simple fact

[@martymethuselah]

@Steve Bainbridge Read the Laws..not the TV....USA lost its WAR Dept and war....game over....Japan is the wealth and ware fare dominant power

[@xx-bg2dj]

fair dinkum gibberish

[@badcompany-w6s]

They should have used color film.

[@zeck0715]

thank you usa from south korea

[@majorrgeek]

zeck0715 - you should never give thanks for war crimes - totally uncivilised

[@OverallFatherTsunami]

majorgeeek you sound really crazy Japan QWERTY rasping women and little kids and every country they invaded for years and killing shoulders alive by doing surgery on them alive with no pain meds please learn ur history

[@majorrgeek]

@@OverallFatherTsunami - the civilians of Hiroshima did not commit those crimes - under white man's law only the guilty are tried and punished, retribution killing is murder also a crime - get your facts right before making stupid comments

[@15kr]

You're welcome South Korea...and congrats on the Oscar

[@bryanferguson4616]

They should drop this on the Taliban