2001 interview with Paul Tibbets, the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

The nationwide premiere of "Oppenheimer" debuts in theaters on Friday, telling the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his top-secret Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spent years developing and designing the atomic bomb.
In August 1942, the U.S. Army was given the responsibility of organizing the efforts of British and U.S. physicists to seek a way to harness nuclear energy for military purposes. That effort became known as the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer was instructed to establish and administer a laboratory to carry out this assignment. In 1943, he chose the plateau of Los Alamos near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Their work came to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witnessed the world's first nuclear explosion in New Mexico, forever changing the course of history.
But what central Ohioan’s may not know is that a man who lived in Columbus was the pilot of the plane that carried the bomb.
Paul Tibbets was 29-years old when he entered the cockpit to pilot the Enola Gay, named after his mother.
In 2001, he sat down for an interview with 10TV's Kevin Landers to talk about the events leading up to and after he dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Tibbets talked about how he was handpicked to fly the B-29.
“I had more experience with the B-29 than anybody. I said 'boy I’m glad they give it to me. I will do it.' And by doing so I may take some lives, but I’ll save many more. That’s the thought that ruled me all the way through,” he said.
On Aug. 5, 1945, at a cost of $2 billion, the military unveiled the atomic bomb. It weighed 9,700 pounds.
Before the crew took of their mission, Tibbets says they were given cynaide pills in case they were captured.
On Aug. 6, Tibbets and his crew take off.
“It was the most boring flight I ever made, because nothing went wrong,” he said.
Twelve hours and 15 minutes into the flight, the Enola Gay is over the city of Hiroshima.
Tibbets recalled the color of the sky after he banked away from the drop zone.
“The sky in front of me lit up like nothing you had ever seen. And then wham, we got hit by that shockwave,” he said.
Tibbets said he had 41 seconds to get the plane 10 miles away from the blast area out of fear they would be killed by the radiation cloud
“The first shockwave registered 2.5 g forces on the airplane, that was a good kick in the pants,” he said
Tibbetts wore welder goggles to protect himself from the brightness of the blast, but soon realized he couldn’t see the control panel in front of him so he took them off.
He recalled flying from the area and still was able to taste the radiation.
“I was in the turn when that happened; then I tasted it. I tell people it was like putting a piece of metal in your mouth like a sucker,” he said.
More than 20 tons of TNT would drop on Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people. Radiation sickness would kill thousands more. The temperature at the center of the bomb reached 120 million degrees.
“I’ve been asked directly, would you do it again? If you give me the same circumstances I would not hesitate and I’ve never lost a night’s sleep,” he said.
Tibbets died in November 2007 at the age of 92.
Memorabilia from Tibbets' career is on display not at Motts Military Museum in Groveport.

[@123j4j]

Oppenheimer: "What have I done?" Paul TIbbets: "I'll fucking do it again" Ah yes, the duality of men.

[@kaiyin3842]

Seems like Oppenheimer was a coward.

[@OJ90-]

Imagine killing innocent ppl including little children, and not feel bad. Especially the radiation sickness that followed and killed more innocent ppl. I understand u following orders, but damn, he could at least say he felt sorry for the innocent civilians and kids that had nothing to do with the war. Based on what he said, he is somewhat heartless in my opinion. I've heard soldiers being remorseful of some of the stuff they had to do in combat, but this pilot could careless.

[@dynasty0019]

@@OJ90- You would care less too if you've singlehandedly shortened the deadliest war in history from a couple of more years to just less than a month.

[@OJ90-]

@@dynasty0019 No I wouldn't. Having the blood of so many innocent ppl on my hands would haunt me like crazy. Then the radiation sickness that would followed to kill even more innocent ppl that suffered horribly. America would condemn any foreign country that did something similar. America always want to be the morality police of the world. Imagine if Ukraine obliterated Russia with a nuclear bomb killing millions of innocent ppl to end their current ongoing war. U think America wouldn't condemn such an act? Only heartless evil ppl would be carefree of ending the lives of so many innocent ppl.

[@Wazzup1991]

Because Paul Tibbets was the one involved in the battlefield. He saw what the japanese soldier did in the battlefield. He might even lost his friends in the battlefield.

[@Machad0]

The fact that he could immediately taste the metal in his mouth while flying away from the blast site in an airplane is incredible to me.

[@edvingrabar5229]

Radiation is just a bunch of high energy photons. They travel at the speed of l ight, and need only about 50 microsecons to cross 10 miles. When they hit taste buds on the human tongue, they produce a chemical reaction which can create a taste of metal.

[@beenschmokin]

LOL! Propaganda. He couldn't have outrun the blast. MUCH LESS the emp that would have shut the plane down. We carpet bombed those cities into nothing then dropped a normal bomb. Dude on Rogan just showed nuke test footage is fake.

[@AlmostLegalTender]

@@edvingrabar5229 also high speed neutrons and relativistic electrons.

[@ct92404]

​@@beenschmokin

[@standardheat-fs8159]

​@@ct92404Not only flat Earth, this guy is crazy 😂

[@GoDRa7]

Bro called it boring, for he is clearly a man of no regret

[@JJetpack]

@@nonamex6536can you post the link to the audio recording? I can’t find it. Thank you in advance!

[@nonamex6536]

@@JJetpack www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr61-37-radio-report-american-people-potsdam-conference I haven't found what I referenced yet but at 22:30 in this different recording he says that the nuke was dropped on Hiroshima a military base, That was because if possible in the first attack we wished to avoid the killing of civilians. This recording is three days after the first one was used. Aug 9th, 1945. Looks like its not as easy as I remembered to find originally lol.

[@willkeating461]

If you grew up in these times, you would be too , especially if you seen what this man has

[@nonamex6536]

@@JJetpack I posted a link to some of what I found and came back for reference. it is alot harder to find then I thought and I am not sure why the little i did post got removed. It was a direct link to part of one of Harry s Truman's speeches in the public gov archive. I just looked close to the dates for that.

[@doteygibson8031]

He's a criminal for the criminal united states government

[@LinkPellow]

“And I’ve never lost a nights sleep” Damn. That’s cold lol

[@lionelburns6317]

That's something you'll never understand not having been in a war yourself. Sidelines jerk!

[@shobhitkabra13]

Absolute Chad

[@rockmorales]

​@@shobhitkabra13absolute moron but it was war.

[@realhillkell]

Soldiers are often psychopathic tbh

[@venktesh6600]

is he george bush' s relative or what?

[@mrrc8208]

Pilot dude doesn't even have a bit of regret Oppenheimer had

[@paterofmater1690]

​@Patrick_TremblayKilling thousands of innocent people.. What a heroism.

[@paterofmater1690]

@Patrick_Tremblay so what is war crimes and war criminals?? Why are they even criminals?? They were just doing their boring job like raping women, killing Children and innocents without caring about morality as they left it for their superior?? So it turns out there are no war criminals, they were just doing their boring job.. It always bothers me that what is a good soldier?? Who kills all of his family members as per seniors order or who doesnt as its not fot to his morality. If there is something like hell after death this guy should be burned there for eternity.

[@paterofmater1690]

@@valdomero738 If you think so, then americans also deserve some nuke slap for their atrocities in Vietnam..You can't punish person A for the crime of person B just because they live in the same country..

[@ericjohnson-ef8pg]

​@@paterofmater1690He was a soldier who could be killed by Japanese at any time after he toke that flight. And now you telling me about innocent?what about all the innocent people died because of the war which Japanese started? So you think its a fairy tale world without slaughter?War is a matter of death.Either you die or I die. Talk this to normal civilians who has been killed by Japanese soldiers.They weremuch more innocent than Japanese civilians because they had no choice but to fight.😅

[@jeremymendoza1465]

​@@paterofmater1690Would you rather millions of innocents die in a Japanese home invasion instead?

[@samaynandeshwar117]

1:04 “It was the most boring flight I ever made, because nothing went wrong” 💀

[@fixwaya5652]

Menace. This guy might be a villain to japanese, but hes a savior for southeast asian.

[@peterstone3577]

​@@fixwaya5652and scum for every normal human being.

[@lonemaus562]

This guy single handily killed more Japanese then anything or anyone in history this guy is the ultimate Japanese villain lmao. He killed more then any tsunami or freak disaster 😵‍💫

[@josephbegniol2051]

@huntertucker7806 Lol 800 000? Japan lost the war already when the 2 atomic bomb were dropped. There were no need to attacked the civilians like that

[@FeelsPotatoMan]

​@@josephbegniol2051before the atomic bombs genius

[@pocketsocrates6140]

There's something disturbing in how he grew into old age without an ounce of regret for doing that.

[@afrocentric1674]

He's just saying that for the cameras and to retain his "hero" title but I am sure there are nights he had nightmares for the thousands of innocent civilians and children he killed.

[@SuperAngelofglory]

For every life the bomb took, at least 10 were saved, so, in the grand scheme of things, it was the lesser evil

[@gridus5380]

There is nothing disturbing about that, what, the choices are : live your life until you are in your 80s with regret and unhappiness, or justify the drop based on the numbers saved. He did what every sane sensible person should do and justified the drop.

[@SuperAngelofglory]

@@afrocentric1674 but is he really the one who killed them?

[@obligatoryusername7239]

​​@@adewit03This is literally how the entire world thinks. All of the Allies (including the Soviet Union) supported using the atom bomb after Truman told them about it. War has always been collateral damage, the atom bomb didn'r change that.

[@KanekiiiKennnnn]

*"It was the most boring flight that I made because nothing went wrong"*

[@pokemonitishere202]

"They were given cyanide pills incase they were captured "💀 Bro was more than ready to drop the bomb 😱

[@serlingdavis8840]

Friggen absolute respect ❤

[@catngaum]

1:04 😂

[@271Saif]

It's war. Not Pokemon.

[@pokemonitishere202]

@@271Saif It's definitely not terrorism by Islamists

[@Corvacar]

His name is Tibbetts not “ Bro.”

[@shumla7ranch]

Major error in the narration: It wasn't an equivalent "22 tons of TNT". The estimated yield was as high as 20 kilotons, or 20,000 tons of TNT. BIG difference,

[@user-zg9lv8ix3s]

Good point.

[@Bobby-fj8mk]

Actually it was 12 kilotons on Hiroshima and 22 kilotons on Nagasaki.

[@michaelandrews1134]

I didn't know Paul Tibbets was still alive in 20001. I was in high school and my grandfather served in the second world War as a medic. We used to talk about history and wwii all the time back then

[@Caakers]

bro has 17978 more years 💀

[@PraiseTheLordyourGodJesus]

Ephesians 6:10-18 says, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. The bible is no old book. You have to really let Christ open your eyes; to see the world in shambles. Many people say it's a religion to lock up people in chains, and say it's a rule book.. why? Because people hate hearing the truth, it hurts their flesh, it's hurts their pride, it's exposes on what things have they done..people love this world so much, s*x, money, power, women, supercars.. things of this world. Still trying to find something that can fill that emptiness in your heart. You can't find that in this world.. only in Christ, the bible is no chains, it's a chainbreaker. Breaking your sins into pieces... Repent now, and turn back to the true Lord only.. God bless.😊

[@yamansrinivas7429]

You probably need to go back to high school

[@allen-castle]

​@@Caakers☠️

[@ToothyGMD]

@@yamansrinivas7429it was obviously a typo

[@Moonman63]

We discussed Hiroshima in 8th grade, one of my classmates father was on a troopship designated for the invasion, they were expecting 90% casualties. It was a real eye opener to realize, had they not dropped the bomb she would not have been there.

[@Notmyrealname69420]

The bomb didn’t make the Japanese capitulate, the soviets entering the war did. The Japanese were hoping to have the ussr be a mediator between them and the Americans but when they invaded Manchuria it suddenly became a lot more attractive to surrender to the Americans because the soviets would’ve killed the emperor and set up a communist state. The bomb was really about scaring the Russians so they wouldn’t invade europe to spread communism. If fdr hadve lived another year or Henry Wallace been on the ticket instead of Truman, I doubt the bomb would’ve been dropped because relations with the soviets would’ve been a lot better

[@Beacon342]

There is a Japanese dance troupe on America's got talent. Most of them wouldn't exist without the bomb either.

[@noelleirina5628]

...and if the bomb wasn't dropped, tens of thousands of children that the victims would have had would be here now. What's your point? Your classmate would also be there if the US wasn't pushing for the grandiose and unnecessary decision to invade and the bomb was never dropped. Hundreds of thousands of lives saved.

[@stupoc6715]

A full scale invasion of Japan would have killed more people. Absolutely.

[@sativa455]

Wait so the bomb mad them survive? I don't understand I thought just about nobody survived. U said without the bomb they wouldn't be here??

[@l.lisa09]

“if you give me the same circumstances i would not hesitate” 😭💀💀

[@UmarBasil]

this guy is actually a zombie

[@alexspader]

@@UmarBasil imagine being in the same circumstances and saying no to that mission? in his mind he saved his country. many people in the world would do the same thing for their countries. that's how the whole education system works.

[@robertwright4906]

He’s a Chad

[@gsxr1189]

I'd do to. Attack America & think you're getting an apology....lol. 🖕

[@gsxr1189]

@@robertwright4906 Man is Legend.

[@Scatpack21]

I loved that he had the crew chief rig a switch so that HE dropped the bomb, not the bombardier. Took the responsibility on himself

[@bob80q]

gee first I have heard of this, and I met Tibbetts twice

[@frogman1941]

Truman took all the credit. It wasnt Oppenheimer. Those darn germans surrendered too soon so they had to use both types of nuclear bombs before the japanese had a chance to appropriately surrender.

[@Formaldehydex]

I call BS. Prove it.

[@josephf7720]

Incorrect. It was triggered by the bombardier Thomas Ferebee

[@Formaldehydex]

@@josephf7720 Sad, isn’t it? “Idiocracy” has become a documentary. Facts are nuisances now. I blame the schools and their parents.

[@andresmattos7541]

PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY, JAPAN COMMITED BRUTAL WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING WW2 JUST A LITTLE EXAMPLE IS UNIT 731.

[@90sKidRetroGaming]

Agreed with you, japan committed many war crimes

[@RA-ce8ks]

so you drop a bomb on civilians?

[@Migs1023]

⁠@@RA-ce8ks If the allied powers invaded Japan millions of people would’ve died. If the United States main goal was to kill as much with the bomb as they could they wouldn’t have dropped pamphlets warning civilians to evacuate.

[@d0nnzaa244]

​@@RA-ce8ksThere's a little option to have if you're fighting an enemy that has no plans to give up and would cause even more harm than the option you chosen, if not stopped

[@correiaivan]

​@@d0nnzaa244shoudlnt nuke civilians. Instead aim for idk, military bases, whatever happens. They were at war, not Hiroshima people

[@godncountry8323]

My grandfather was on the Nagasaki mission. The only time I ever heard him speak ill of the dead was when Hirohito passed.

[@vitocorleone8323]

Now imagine how our military would handle this today after the RuPaul stripper show and pillow fight because you used the wrong pronouns.

[@gaswhole]

​@@vitocorleone8323 your military has twice in 2 generations got its@$$ handed to it by poverty stricken countries whose farmers decided they didn't like scum.

[@gaswhole]

your only claim to fame is having a lame grandfather in an ironically named plane

[@Nyanarchyy]

Hirohito was a puppet though

[@sleazyfellow]

​@bananarchy5430 no he wasn't, he was head of a country that committed mass murder across southeast Asia and China. In this case Hitler would be innocent too right? He wasn't dropping the gas in the gas chambers or at the mass executions of POWs in Russia, Poland etc etc.

[@ArnoldZiffle-jw2mv]

An old guy who helped revamp the fuselage of the enola gay to accommodate the bomb told us that he had no regrets at all. He firmly believed it saved many lives & stopped the war. He died of als possibly got contaminated.

[@rgsxyz1105]

The USA almost had a nuclear missile shot at it during the Cuba missile crisis .... a Russian commander was given the order to fire , but he disobeyed orders

[@Chafflives]

Surely it was ‘revamped’ before the incident? 🤔

[@ArnoldZiffle-jw2mv]

@@Chafflives he helped rebuild the inside of the plane so the bomb would fit inside the bomb bay.

[@Chafflives]

@@ArnoldZiffle-jw2mv I understand that, but you stated that he may have been contaminated with ALS. ‘French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot discovered ALS in 1869. While ALS can affect anyone, anywhere, at any time, there are two different ways cases are categorized. For about 90% of all cases, there’s no known family history of the disease or presence of a genetic mutation linked to ALS.’ Are you saying that he worked on it again upon its return? If so, there doesn’t appear to be a link between ALS and residual radiation.

[@ArnoldZiffle-jw2mv]

@@Chafflives information is still unavailable, his crew might have handled the actual bomb to put it in place

[@obinnaobiekwe4910]

After the war a lot of people had ptsd, committed suicides, did not recognise themselves, etc... This man would do it again and did not lose a night's sleep. WTF!!!

[@lonewolf9578]

He didn’t see those things up close and first hand, that’s the difference All he had to do was fly over the city and drop the bomb, meanwhile all of those soldiers who had to live through that hell saw first hand the horrors of war, their friends being killed in front of them and all kinds of shit

[@callumg_0147]

@@lonewolf9578 If I saw the videos of the children I had maimed and parents whom I'd vaporized, I'd be horrified on the atrocity I'd just committed whether at the time I saw it up close or not. He's obviously seen these videos, and doesn't have a shred of remorse.

[@july172]

Yea so he can give you the comfort of you being able to type a comment here!

[@gasoven3759]

​@@callumg_0147LtCol Tibbitz doesn't need to have a shred of remorse. Obviously, you have no historical context or knowledge of WWII. You have no idea how barbaric and savage and racist was the Japanese military. The only people to blame for these atomic bombs being dropped on the Japanese mainland were the Japanese military cabinet and Emperor Hirohito himself. Their pride, arrogance, and narcissism were the true reasons these bombs had to be dropped. The leadership would just not surrender. Actions have consequences. The decisions and actions of the Japanese leadership brought this destruction upon themselves. Blame the Emperor. He could have surrendered well before that.

[@callumg_0147]

@@gasoven3759 I have A LOT of knowledge about WW2, maybe even more than you considering that's what I chose to study. And to say I have no idea how racist and barbaric they were when I've studied the events that happened at Nanjing and that in itself proves how barbaric they were is very arrogant. I don't care who was to blame for dropping the bomb, maybe it was the best thing they could have done in that situation, I don't know. (I feel like a different approach could have worked however) But to go onto an interview and say you have zero remorse for vaporizing and maiming innocent men, women and children and not lose a nights sleep over it just seems a bit psychotic to me. If I did that to my worst enemy I'd still have a shred of remorse for what I'd done to the innocent people who had no choice in being collateral damage...

[@LunaticFringeHunter]

In December 1972, I completed Lear Jet training at Columbus Ohio flight school. My graduation certificate is signed by Col. Paul Tibbets.

[@DiotraxSecondlives]

when you refer to 200.000 civilians by "some lives" .. amazing.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

How many Chinese did Imperial Japan murder? A million or more?

[@rcairflr]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver People are ignorant. They sit in their heated and A/C home in perfect security and have no idea of what the world was like in 1945. They don't think about or don't even know the atrocities the Japanese people did, leading up to and during WWII. In my book, Paul Tibbets and the millions of Americans fighting in WWII are heroes. To be honest, calling them heroes really understates what they did.

[@Berniewahlbrinck]

Exactly - and terrifying.

[@LEK]

@@rcairflr Yeah well, the Russians killed 20 million people and Americans worked together with them. Why not bomb them? Realize how flawed your logic is?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Berniewahlbrinck Veterans are disgusted by the trendy apologism of today for Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Looks like we're gonna have to fight it all over again.

[@monitor1862]

In the 1990s I worked for a Japanese company here in the US. We had a visitor from the head office in Japan. This was around the 50th anniversary of the bombs being dropped and he stated he thought that the US should apologize for the bombings. I told him Japan needed to go first. When he asked what for I reminded him of Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, the rape of Nanjing, unit 731. He didn't think much of my suggestion.

[@Area51AlphaZulu]

Thank you for sharing this story. It’s convenient to forget the generations of Japanese boys that would have been placed in suicide missiles against their will. Suicide bombings haven’t aged well.

[@powysdewhurst]

I never heard of Unit 731. I looked it up earlier. It is horrendous. My God.

[@SuperTrumpMAGA]

Why R.Oppie was crying ?? U never be able to understand it !! Vietnamese can drop H bombs on NY & Chicago to make even ?? AmeJewChang kids just never be able to understand it !!!! 💩💩🖤🖤

[@ginoferri9610]

@@powysdewhurst why did i google it. I'm so glad japan got nuked. That's the only way, to stop their onslaught of utter carnage.

[@pokemonitishere202]

You got him bro. Japan always plays the victim card showing the bombings while hiding their even more insane horrors & war crimes against POW

[@alfredocabrera1158]

This man is the biggest player in the lobby with 150,000 kills 🎮

[@WaveringSoul]

"Never lost a night's sleep" Thats far beyond normal

[@mohamedaf4044]

The Japanese had it coming for the atrocities they committed, or have you never heard of what they did in Nanking for example?

[@DotyFuzz]

​@@mohamedaf4044bro there were innocent civilians there, women, children and elderly people

[@InfiniteMonkeyTheorem]

​@@DotyFuzzThere were those too in nanking but it's not like the Japanese ever gave a damn, not even now they want to apologize for their extreme cruelty. I'd say the bomb did more good than it did bad, for it made the japanese realize that they had lost the war and there was no point in trying to defend from a mainland invasion which would have cost far, far more lives.

[@DotyFuzz]

@@InfiniteMonkeyTheorem yeah I know, the bomb was crucial in ending the war, I'm just saying that most of the residents of the bombed cities had nothing to do with Japan's war crimes, some were maybe even against the war, to think that so many innocent lives were lost in the blink of an eye, like have at least some sympathy for them. It's not a topic that you would talk about like lightly

[@frogwood1713]

​@@InfiniteMonkeyTheoremu dumb

[@ronricherson6685]

What's missing here is that Hirohito and Tojo REFUSED to surrender, not only after Hirshoma, but after the firebombs by well over 200 B-29's that killed over 100,000 civilians just a couple months before.

[@Formaldehydex]

It was actually over 1 million civilians who died from the fire bombings that were clearly war crimes, just like the 2 a-bombs were. And Japan was ready to surrender. Try getting your facts from someplace other than comic books and Faux News.

[@Esignn]

They would of dragged that war out another 5-10 years.

[@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance]

I heard that they actually did try to surrender and wanted to override someone being stubborn, but tragically it was too late and they didn't get there in time.

[@thegreatestpitchermaddux4887]

Completely wrong. Emperor Hirohito wanted to end the war when he assigned prime minister Suzuki in April 1945. A bomb is clearly a war crime as cruel as Japanese aggressions. It’s such a shame that lots of Americans are still appreciating this war crime. Essentially there’s no difference from what Putin is doing in Ukraine. It’s even worse.

[@Formaldehydex]

@@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Too late? Was Japan suddenly going someplace? Truman decided to drop the bomb when he did because he knew that the Soviet Union was massing troops to invade Japan.

[@rayss3323]

The Little Boy explosion was actually incomplete. Experts have theorized only about 1% of the Uranium actually detonated - the remainder was "just" a dirty bomb. Likely because it was the "gun" design. FatMan on the other hand was Pu, and an implosion type. Even with so much less material, was much more efficient.

[@vilmomoccolosso9824]

There is no nuclear weapon that converts all of it's fissile mass/fuel into energy. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams of matter into energy. Tsar bomba released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 2.3 kilograms of matter into energy.

[@BritishEcho]

Knowing just how much power came from so little material that had actually reacted that was inside such an inefficient bomb is terrifying..... Terrifying that you can only imagine how powerful atomic weaponry is today. I fully believe we have created bombs that could end all life on this planet.... No question.

[@Scikit27]

​@@BritishEchoYes one nuke war and we are done. Most of the part of Earth would turn into an ice age.

[@eduardos.tenorlasclu1070]

I can't stop asking what good man makes by killing. It's known to all that life on earth is short. And what good are possessions when the owner is dead. Many want more than what they need but can't find confort and peace in their lives.

[@lylesloth1275]

@@eduardos.tenorlasclu1070it is because that you cherish life that you must protect it, and hence why you may kill.

[@Erich__88]

He had that pre-1945 morality. “Does the good outweigh the bad?” rather than “is what I am doing evil?”

[@williamgordon5708]

Maybe he asked himself both questions, and the answers came out "Yes." and "No." What he did was ethically no different than dropping a regular napalm on Hamburg, or shelling an enemy-held town with civilians still inside. It was a job that fell onto his hands because some idiot dictators years back decided to make some very stupid decisions, it was necessary destruction to conclude the war.

[@obligatoryusername7239]

Standing idly by, allowing Japan to kill more people in occupied areas of Asia just so you can think of yourself as a "good guy", is also evil. Both choices were evil (which is common in war), he took the lesser evil.

[@mein3324]

There are many N@zi's who are in their 90's. N@z! Schütz lived for 102 yrs, he became oldest person to be tried and convicted for N@zi-era war crimes in Germany.

[@mein3324]

R@c!st Churchill got to live till 90, who starved millions of Indiansin bengal and had no sympathy. Same for chinese dictator mao. So evil people do live long.

[@PraiseTheLordyourGodJesus]

Ephesians 6:10-18 says, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. The bible is no old book. You have to really let Christ open your eyes; to see the world in shambles. Many people say it's a religion to lock up people in chains, and say it's a rule book.. why? Because people hate hearing the truth, it hurts their flesh, it's hurts their pride, it's exposes on what things have they done..people love this world so much, s*x, money, power, women, supercars.. things of this world. Still trying to find something that can fill that emptiness in your heart. You can't find that in this world.. only in Christ, the bible is no chains, it's a chainbreaker. Breaking your sins into pieces... Repent now, and turn back to the true Lord only.. God bless.😊😊

[@uno1728]

Wow. The fact he’d do it again speaks volumes and is indeed scary as hell

[@itamar1001]

Japan was evil so nah

[@oanhienlong7264]

The fact he said he'd do it again is not terrifying, he is ordered to do it and he knows he is doing it for a cause(to prevent the war from prolonging and end it on the spot, saving millions that would have lost had instead they kept fighting). You need to know that without the nukes mainland invasion is absolute and the death toll will go over the roof. No "wow" here and you shouldn't feel any wow either. It's war, it's fucked up and sometimes really brutal things happen and there has to be someone to carry out the dirty work so the rest stay clean. Figuratively and literally.

[@Mr.Witness]

Saved the world

[@yousinnedfirst8078]

@@Mr.Witness Putin also saves the world from the west influence

[@ShawalValley-eq1dj]

He is the definition of the entire United States,

[@nkarimwassleepy]

120 million degree celcius...OMFG

[@dude8223]

Is that alot? 🤔 just kiddin

[@GyrosHunter]

You're gonna feel that tomorrow, for sure.

[@artemisatreides]

🥴😭

[@johngnipper8768]

An Oppenheimer tan

[@bigdikla_official]

And we can barely handle 50c°, Jesus Christ.

[@ahknabi]

Oppenheimer: Scientist Tibbets: Soldier

[@ziphy_6471]

Pilot*

[@Hollyweirdification]

The Japanese had fair warning if they didn't surrender this was coming, but pride and ego was the result. While American kids were raised playing ball, etc Japanese kids were raised to kill American soldiers. Sad story all together.

[@patrickt716]

That's the harsh reality many people refuse to accept when talking about the bombs. Hirohito had a plan on standby titled "The Glorious Death of 100 Million" in the event of an Allied invasion. Death was a part of their culture.

[@krapeevids6992]

The narrator incorrectly said 22 tons of tnt was dropped. It was actually “equivalent” to about 20 tons of tnt, but it most definitely was not tnt.

[@ronschlorff7089]

actually, a mistake on his part, it was 22 kilotons, which is 22,000 tons. Sounds like a lot, but "puny" compared to today's nuclear weapons which are about 1 million tons equivalent on average. Sleep well everyone!! LOL

[@Karanveer782w]

Just that American thing you know like " the Pentagon building is as big as 20 football fields. Same way they compare 22k TNT explosion to these new atomic bomb explosion.

[@gregorydahl]

Equivalent to 22 thousand tons 22kilotons 22,000 tons or a pile of tnt as big as 80 feet wide by 100 feet long and 50 feet tall .

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@gregorydahl a lot for a "small bomb" by today's standards!!

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@Karanveer782w yup, but does that include the 2 end zones for each or just the playing fields, which adds some more for the Pentagon's size!! LOL ;D

[@kaiyin3842]

As a Malaysian, I thank this hero for saving all countries who were under the cruel Japanese occupation!

[@themonkster333]

No one wants to talk about that.... I like how the Americans have to follow the Geneva Convention while their enemy tortures them. Never understood that....

[@TheGranicd]

@@themonkster333 They wiped 2 cities full of civilians while they were wining. Thats not following Geneva convention. Thats a insane warcrime.

[@solsticebaby]

Thank you for this comment. It's like people just have no concept of what the Japanese did during world war II and not just to other countries but to their own people as well. It's like people think they were these poor babes in the woods and then the big mean Americans did a mean thing. They have no concept of what monsters the Japanese imperial forces were.

[@QbanoPuraSepa]

I’m an American living in Malaysia as I read this. Cheers!

[@nickyalousakis3851]

thank you kai. peace.

[@trishjacobs6677]

He is a hero who saved millions. People are really too soft in today's society. Heroes are rare to find as opposed to those in Tibbett's day.

[@grimlyreaper5364]

This man had to stain his hands full of blood and commit horrors beyond anything this world and mankind could see in order to help a nation so stubborn to realize it’s defeat. He did his job and though world peace could’ve been brought upon in a different way. We now know just how horrible these weapons can get and the horrors they will inflict. With shows and movies to help remind us of our mistake. I truly wish there was a world where these cruel bombs never came into existence

[@anthonywilliams9852]

Too late now.

[@zumazuma568]

wow, you sure used a lot of words to spell "war crime"

[@walawalayaga8116]

@@zumazuma568just one of the many of ww2

[@whitetroutchannel]

@@zumazuma568 war is crime and in total war there is no rules

[@zumazuma568]

@@whitetroutchannel well the united nations and the international court strongly disagree with you buddy

[@gregorydahl]

2:02 says " 22 tons of tnt struck" But it was more like the equivalent power of 22 THOUSAND TONS of tnt in the form of an atomic fission reaction release of free energy .

[@imkongsunepjamir9257]

No wonder he was given the task.

[@dannycamacho2664]

Imagine working your whole life as a physicist and developing the weapon that has the power to destroy the world and this guy gets all the credit lol

[@AvidAfrican]

No bomb can destroy the world. Stop talking BS

[@anonony9081]

Go ask 100 people who this guy is and I'd be surprised if one knows the answer. Oppenheimer though... he's a household name even before the movie

[@brak1827]

Oppenheimer had regret this

[@PraiseTheLordyourGodJesus]

Ephesians 6:10-18 says, Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. The bible is no old book. You have to really let Christ open your eyes; to see the world in shambles. Many people say it's a religion to lock up people in chains, and say it's a rule book.. why? Because people hate hearing the truth, it hurts their flesh, it's hurts their pride, it's exposes on what things have they done..people love this world so much, s*x, money, power, women, supercars.. things of this world. Still trying to find something that can fill that emptiness in your heart. You can't find that in this world.. only in Christ, the bible is no chains, it's a chainbreaker. Breaking your sins into pieces... Repent now, and turn back to the true Lord only.. God bless.😊😊

[@keifer7813]

Credit? More like blame. I wouldn't want my name associated with mass murder of innocents whatsoever

[@WalterZw]

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 caused immeasurable suffering and devastation, affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. These tragic events should make us always think about the consequences of our decisions and strive for peaceful solutions to international conflicts. Our world faces numerous challenges, from environmental problems to social injustices and economic crises. It is up to us humans to act together and create a world of compassion, understanding and peace. I hope history teaches us that we must strive to ensure such catastrophic events never happen again. Our responsibility is to leave a more just and peaceful world to future generations.

[@yuritarted984]

Crybaby

[@brennenbjorgan1867]

You could say that nuclear power plant in Russia too

[@allenhurt02]

Japan raping China was one of many key reasons we made fried rice.

[@kulamahameya7041]

Millions more would have died if the war continued its crazy that something like this had to open everyone’s eyes

[@joeyharper4976]

Japan Learned their lesson.

[@ericjohnson-ef8pg]

Innocent japanese? What about those chinese civilians and civilians from other countries and all those soldiers who fought with Japanese?They could have a life without any war，some of them even lost their lives because of the war. So they deserve the war which they didn't start?They deserve all the suffering,all the pain and all the death that Japanese brought? These people are much more innocent than Japanese,one thing for sure is that more innocent people would been killed if japan refused to surrender. innocent? Why didn't you talk to them?My grandfather was almost killed by Japanese soldiers and the ancient city bulit hundreds of years ago in the Ming dynasty in my hometown was bombarded by Japanese soldiers. Talking about innocence to them.

[@Gaminglife-sf1oz]

Citizens and government are two different things big man.

[@ericjohnson-ef8pg]

@@Gaminglife-sf1ozYou misunderstand the point: i am not saying that every Japanese citizens is not innocent.some of them like children were innocent for sure. The point is innocence isn't important.yeah,some Japanese were innocent, its just more and more people would died if Japanese refused to surround.1 Japanese vs 2 soldiers.I don't think its a hard decision to make. I just don't like they way they talk.it seems that Japanese citizens become the only innocent victim and the others were merely random passing by strangers which were ignored. But the fact is that only in nanking there are 300 thousands people have been killed by the Japanese soldiers. And that,is also the fact.Not to mention those soldiers who fought with Japanese soldiers.

[@ericjohnson-ef8pg]

@@Gaminglife-sf1oz One more thing to say:Yeah,they are innocent citizens,but then,who were not?

[@kelleychilton2524]

@@Gaminglife-sf1oz And your asinine point is?? ... 'big man'

[@Gaminglife-sf1oz]

@@kelleychilton2524 what am saying is children, women and ordinary citizens should not have to pay or die horribly for their own terrible politicans or governments. Am sure you wouldn't want innocent american citizens to suffer because of the actions of their politicians in foreign countries.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

It wasn't the equivalent of 22 tons of TNT, but 22 THOUSAND!

[@michellen5704]

Aka 22 kilotons

[@user-st1dm2fb4c]

I am shocked to hear the former pilot who dropped the bomb saying "I would do it again". Also he has not lost a nights sleep ! He doesn't seem to have any feelings.

[@sergeant_salty]

What would regrets should he have? It was the end of the worst war the world ever saw. This brought peace. Decades later the U.S. and Japan are proud allies, ready to fight for eachother at a moment's notice. it's a a real shame you can't just sit down and say thank you

[@user-st1dm2fb4c]

@@sergeant_salty the second world war ended because of numerous things .the atom bomb was the final thing.if there had been no atom bomb the war would have eventually ended anyway.so why thank the pilot?

[@Ivanelvio]

The war was over in May when the red army got into Berlin. That bomb was not necessary! That was an act of cowardly! US is the only country that has use this bomb. They have no forgiveness.

[@brianmatthews4323]

@@user-st1dm2fb4c They calculated that MILLIONS would have died to end the war without the bomb. The Japanese WOULD NOT QUIT. THAT'S why they dropped it. Learn history.

[@user-gq4hz7rh6k]

@@user-st1dm2fb4c Your are incorrect...best to learn a bit more instead of just being emotional. Sargeant is right.

[@StephenLuke]

RIP Paul Tibbets (1915-2007)

[@StephenLuke]

No dirty, disrespectable, or conspiracy comments please, or else I will give you a thumbs down,

[@mr_ambles]

Dude was like “I’ll fuckin do it again”

[@valdomero738]

Based

[@stevemastnick5034]

My kind of guy!

[@clintjones9848]

🤣

[@MelvinCooper-ov8lg]

@@stevemastnick5034if there a heaven he want be there.

[@jshddbu8yizdpy7048]

Radiations still reached him in the plane. Imagine the person on whom this Bomb would have been dropped around, he would not even realise that he is dead.

[@billdivine9501]

Probably better that way. Gone in a micro second.

[@pokemonitishere202]

More like recent Titanic submarine incident

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

They watched the measuring instruments drift down on a Parachute above the falling bomb they could not see, gawking at the sky that a Lone B29 had just flown across, in 1945 that was surreal enough I am sure, (did we miss the Surrender?) then the Sun touched down.

[@Tadoka_Inamo]

My grandparents and their siblings and cousins, who were guerrilla fighters during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, are grateful for the atomic bombings. To them, it was an eye for an eye.

[@noelleirina5628]

Not sure how killing Japanese civilians, who had nothing to do with the Filipino genocide, makes up for anything. It's just more innocent lives lost.

[@rohanshende4338]

Yeah. Killing CIVILIANS was an Eye to Eye. American logic.

[@ariagamescompany2085]

Well your grandparedt will suffer forever in hell

[@pja6476]

​@@noelleirina5628compared to the millions that would have died had the US invaded lol? Get off your high horse

[@PaolaRodriguez-rd2qi]

I feel bad for the innocent civilians that were vaporized in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but I also think about the innocent people that were tortured and raped by the Japanese soldiers, nobody deserved the bomb or being tortured, damn humans are truly evil

[@user-nh6mx3nb7f]

War is horrific. Only the innocent suffer.

[@smusky4643]

Depends on your viewpoint.

[@LB-uo7xy]

​@@smusky4643Tell me ONE SINGLE POWERUL LEADER that suffered himself during the 2 World Wars. Captured family members don't count since the political and economical leaders were Cluster B disordered men that never cared for their relatives to begin with. As an example Stalin let his OWN son die in a German torture facility.

[@ronschlorff7089]

I suppose the title is a bit misleading "a difference without a distinction", or vice versa, is the term, I think. The bombardier dropped the bomb and Tibbets piloted the plane to the vicinity of the target, and there were secondary targets, but Hiroshima was the primary due to its war assets, including a garrison of soldiers and other facilities. The pilot lines up on the target and turns over control of the plane to the bombardier who drops the bomb, announces "bomb away", and then immediately returns control to the pilot so he can get the plane away from the tremendous blasts, in the case of the A-bombs, which could damage the plane and may bring it down at that time. Actually, Nagasaki was a secondary target of another B-29, with another pilot and crew, due to the primary being too covered in a hazy smoke due to nearby recent conventional bombing at the time of the mission!! Many other vids on you tube give these details. I suppose as for the "credit of who dropped the bombs" that would be Harry S. Truman, the Democrat president and Commander in Chief of all U.S. forces, at the time, who gave the order for the two A-bombing missions over Japan in 1945. And he also warned of others to follow if the Japanese Emperor did not surrender unconditionally, which he fortunately did.

[@bobthebear1246]

*Democratic Also, it is incorrect to write Harry S Truman's name as "Harry S. Truman," since the middle initial "S" does not stand for a particular name.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@bobthebear1246 yes, true, he said that himself, also he is said to have said, "the buck stops with me", and, as CIC he took full responsibility for his wartime actions and orders, including incinerating 200,000 Japanese to end the war!!

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@bobthebear1246 Yes, and you are right about the Democratic party. And Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic party candidate and president number 7, he's on your 20-dollar bills. Like Truman, a pretty good president, for a democrat, LOL, who fought in the battle of New Orleans in 1814, I think, during the war of 1812, when the British invaded our young country. Again, the damn wars already, sheesh!! ;D

[@m444ss]

he was in command of the mission and he gave the order. the bomb was ultimately dropped because he told a crewmember to drop it.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@m444ss Yes, for all you civilians who never ever served your country in the military, that's commonly known to those of us who did, as "the chain of command". It goes downward, starting at the very top with the Commander in Chief, in this case an American democratic president named Harry Truman!! Tibbets could not have acted alone, without orders from his superiors, through that chain, as ignorantly implied here. LOL ;D So, that's your "legacy", all you democrats today, history shows you can't hide from that fact. And I happen to agree with it. Your political party not only developed the atomic bomb under FDR, at Los Alamos, but then "dropped them" under Harry Truman's order. It came down through the chain of command, until it reached the bomber crew of the Enola Gay, who ultimately carried out an order, beginning with the U.S. president at that time. It will be the very same if we bomb other attacking counties in WWIII. The president whomever it is, from whichever party, will have to give the order to retaliate, if he/she sees us under attack then. In the case of WWII, the retaliation on Japan came many months, on August 8th, 1945, after Pearl Harbor, an American territory then, was attacked by them on December 7th, 1941. Right wrong or indifferent, those are the historical facts, and always will be, unless democrats find a way to blame a Republican for it!! LOL ;D

[@BumbleB321]

Imagine if his daughter asked "what did you do at work today daddy?"

[@rondondon7088]

Он с улыбкой на лице " Убил более ста тысяч мирных жителей, за пару минут"

[@correiaivan]

​@@rondondon7088que horror

[@operson2753]

I like the fact he didn’t feel bad about killing innocent people who had nothing to do with ww2

[@playerunkown8699]

God and his son knows that bro. They already made paul tibbets satans wife

[@beatlesstones3280]

It is more complicated than that. He is convinced by killing those people, he saved many more. (because the Japaneses surrendered after that) But the thing is, we will never know what would have happened if the bomb wasn't launched. Would it have indeed saved many other people or would it have done nothing at all in particular?

[@rinoking88]

He did “feel bad” in a sense, but the ends justified the means. I’ve read another one of his interviews and he talks about what he saw as _ending_ the killing, and how they all “had feelings” but just had to ignore them. He was right too: The bombings did, in fact, end the war. Now days it seems evil but we also haven’t seen war even close to the scale of WWII. People’s frame of reference these days is Iraq, Ukraine, the Balkans; so of course dropping an atomic bomb will seem unwarranted. But with WWII threatening the very existence of nations all around the world with like 75 million people dead they had a different perspective on what was justifiable to end the war.

[@playerunkown8699]

@@rinoking88 thats easy for him too say he nuked people who didn't had anything to do with the war. If he was a real good guy he nuked to guy who was responsible for the war in the first place. Killings innocents to stop the war doesn't make you a national hero its makes your look like a terrorist

[@RishabhKumar-yu3kw]

​@@playerunkown8699calm down keyboard warrior, neither you or anyone including me can understand what these men went through while fighting the worst war in history of humanity. Imagine a war multiple times worse than in ukraine and gaza. Ask yourself would you kill 150k people to save millions? It's called necessary evil in my opinion. Nevertheless It was a sad day for humanity.

[@allenpolintan1614]

A lot of peeps here saying that he don't regret doing it, ofc what if you're country is losing and you only have 1 weapon to kill all of them would you use it in that situation? Yes he said "SAME CIRCUMSTANCES"

[@9206biggz]

20,000 Japanese civilians killed themselves and even their children on Okinawa rather than face the “disgrace” of surrender (some families even tossed their children off cliffs). Imagine the death toll for civilians if the Allies had to invade the Japanese home islands. By that time, the Japanese were training even children on the home islands to fight with nothing more than sticks of Japan itself were invaded. 100,000 people is a ghastly number but it’s not as bad as millions (if the low estimates of an invasion were calculated at roughly 5-10 million civilian deaths).

[@Iustinfm]

1 radio broadcast from the emperor and all of that is avoided. They were done the moment the russians opened the second front. It's the US history that teaches these excuses to push the agenda that the bombs were morally right, when in fact they were unnecessary.

[@kelleychilton2524]

They did this on Saipan also.

[@boomernality1904]

Out of everyone involved with the atomic bomb. This dude prob had the least to do with the surrender of japan. But he did still have a part to play. Fact is it was the president and oppenheimer who probably have the most blood on their hands. Remember any trianed pilot can fly that plane, he was just following orders, so don't hate on him.

[@betrayed4288]

Could drop in in the middle of the ocean btw

[@boomernality1904]

@@betrayed4288 finding a soldier who follows orders and hates the Japanese isn't that hard

[@workenergy7760]

so he is saying no regrets of killing innocents in millions is ok wow what a hypocrisy if west do wrong its right wow

[@quaoar213]

The fact is... nobody knows. BUT.... there most certaintly was a secondary switch installed. While planning the mission, the mentality of each crew member or as a whole must be considered. Having a secondary switch will ensure it will be dropped. Im willing to bet the second Bomb was originally a backup .

[@still_someone]

My grandma had worked at the pentagon back in about 1999 or somewhere around that time but recently she gave me a book about Paul Tibbets and it had his signature and another pilot that I forgot the name of but they came over to the pentagon before they died gave out signatures.

[@betrayed4288]

How in the hell are you proud of holding that lmao

[@still_someone]

@@betrayed4288 I have no idea

[@shafaitahir4728]

you cant hold anyone accountable, it is not a question of morality. He said it best "if given the same circumstances, i will not hesitate"

[@springadore]

Robert S McNamara said that if America had lost the war he and the others who arranged the dropping of the bomb would have been tried as war criminals, and i agree.

[@timcarlstrand5890]

Nuremberg put an end to "I was just followings orders". Morality should always be questioned.

[@Mr.Goodkat]

Of course it's a question of morality.

[@upupa8191]

​@@timcarlstrand5890 but not this one, the choice was between a new Day D on japan with more than a milion death to both sides or use 2 atomic bombs to kill around 130k people, i wouldn't hesitate too. he save more than hundred thousand american soldiers, u cant blame him.

[@barrah4242]

Killers never held themselves accountable

[@Sleepyjoe117]

Remember everything happens for a reason that's why we call it history

[@fabiofernandes9122]

lol. people arguing that the bomb wasnt justifiable is lauphable. most of the civilians in japan supported the japanese imperial army and japan was out of control conquering and pillagin multiple countries and killing thousands of people in pearl harbour and thousands more during the war.

[@fabiofernandes9122]

if the americans were doing that in the 40s then yeah, but they werent. the japanese were and they paid the price.@@goblinky

[@robertfoster7807]

60 plus japanese cities were 70 to 90 percent destroyed by fire bombing before the usa droped the bomb. more people died in tokyo in 1 night by a conventional raid than either atomic bombs a number of japanese cities were left untouched by fire bombing as to see the effect of the atomic bomb.The japanese were trying to get out of the war earlier but the usa said you cant keep the emporer but in the end the usa had to let the japanese keep the emporer if they did not the japanese would never haver surrended.The atomic bomb was not needed to win the war againts japanThe droping of the atomic bombs on japan was a experiment by the usa

[@fabiofernandes9122]

the atomic bomb was necessary even the japanese wrote about it at the time.@@robertfoster7807

[@tomoesan4547]

No way, the civilians of a historically well-isolated country that made great strides modernizing and with a huge nationalistic pride supporting it's war efforts? Man you're a genius, we would've never pieced that together.

[@fabiofernandes9122]

@@tomoesan4547 civilians who believed in racial superiority and built their modern country by conquering and commiting mass atrocities.

[@halofire4725]

Welp they sure did pick the right guy I’ll tell ya that. “If given the same circumstances I will not hesitate”

[@Kal360]

Who is here after Oppenheimer?

[@-441-]

me

[@ronschlorff7089]

Have not seen it but it is a remake of an older movie in the 80's I think, also a good movie called "Fat Man and Little Boy" (they were the nick names of the two A- bombs) starring Paul Newman, was it? Can't remember. But good and "historically accurate".

[@another501stguy]

Not me

[@vickiego1]

@@ronschlorff7089 It’s not a remake, it’s based off of a 2006 Pulitzer Prize, winning biography, called American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan said he has always been interested in the guy & then when he read the book, he knew he had to make the movie.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@vickiego1 Yes, but there was a "made for tv" movie, back when they did those things, a multipart series, on Oppenheimer and the "Manhattan project", starring Sam Waterston I think. It seemed to focus on the "academic challenge" more than the military use of the project, by all the scientists. And also, the later regrets of "Oppy", as he was known by his colleagues at U.C. Berkeley and the University of Chicago, whose "great U.S. academic intuitions" were the main developers of the bomb! And they were all "theoretical physicists", and not "warriors"! So, many were quite appalled by the results of what their work had loosed upon the world!! Might even have been on PBS. An old movie may not even be available anymore, after 3 or 4 decades, about 40 years after the bombing of Japan.

[@Sausake_66]

😭😭😭 very sad couldn't control my tears

[@Zaltic]

RIP to all those lost. The innocents didn't deserve this. But RIP to the 9.8 Million Japan had murdered too.

[@AA-qb7ni]

The difference of reaction from Tibbets and Oppenheimer is telling...

[@timesup6302]

Because all he did was help create the bomb. He didn't have combat experience on any level. He was a sheltered kosher man that never had to do the heavy lifting of a nation.

[@kelleychilton2524]

@@timesup6302 Exactly right ... spot on ... well said!! 👍👍

[@Crashed131963]

The guy saved many Japanese also . A long drawn out land invasion would have killed many more Japanese people than who died in the two A-Bomb explosions .

[@thegreatestpitchermaddux4887]

So literally you’re saying that Putin can use A bomb in Ukraine to save more Ukrainians. Sorry, but that’s bullshit. This is a pure war crime.

[@VadimTi320]

God will judge everyone, he knows the true

[@BicycleFunk]

The fuck?

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

​@@BicycleFunk😂. As crazy as it seems, he might be right about the bomb saving Japanese lives. I must say, I've never thought of it that way.

[@BicycleFunk]

@@abdul-kabiralegbe5660 it's a cope. We could just have easily blown it up off the coast without killing civilians to prove the point.

[@EazZiB]

He’s a real one

[@defconbois]

What you need to remember/realize is that this was basically our only option. My great grandfather fought in the navy during world war 2. He told me Japan was ready to fight to their last man woman and child because they saw surrender as dishonorable and would rather fight and die. The war would of lasted YEARS more had we not made this decision. Thats why he says he has no regret he knows how many millions more lives he saved. The needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few and its horrible that this had to happen but it did HAVE to happen its a canon event just accept it.

[@lonewolf9578]

Exactly, it’s a terrible thing but it was also a necessary thing that needed to be done

[@lonewolf9578]

@@vwqwe-gh6td it was a necessary thing, learn some history

[@dori2341]

That’s right! There is no innocent people in Japan. The whole nation was crazily supporting their military!

[@lonewolf9578]

@@vwqwe-gh6td bruh, 1941 they were probably still making the bomb at best Learn some history you absolute lobotomite

[@dori2341]

@@vwqwe-gh6td No, I am telling you the history. I am Chinese, you should learn more eastern history and know what Japan was.

[@DAEMON05]

Thank you for stopping the war sir.

[@rosiemackenzie5976]

That fact that he doesn't seem to have learnt anything even over a lifetime, from that horredous act, shows the depravity of man. Human nature hasn't learnt anything new since then, we still carry out war. Just because it's bullet by bullet the outcome is the same, death in a thousand ways. One day we all have to stand before God and give an account of our lives, no exceptions.

[@Mostly-Ghostly]

The difference between Oppenheimer and Tibbets. Tibbets wanted to win a war and make his country proud. Along side being the first to drop a revolutionary weapon. Oppenheimer knew what the creation of this weapon would lead to. Mass destruction, and millions dead, with only one person to blame; the creator.

[@rousemichael5364]

Nah, the one to blame is not the creator, but the user. a man, who decided to use it.

[@somezsaltz6835]

Did you even watch the video?

[@notrealatall196]

" never lost a night's sleep" speaks volumes about his character. If the Japanese dropped this on his loved ones, would he have felt the same? The 2 sides fighting a war r just like 2 sides of a coin. U just support the side ur on. But doesnt mean there innocent lives on the other side

[@Kurayamiblack]

That's just war though. What's the point of all that killing if you can't move forward with your life afterward? Isn't that supposedly what each side kills for anyways? For a brighter future for themselves? This man won't let his actions destroy his sanity, not because he's a bad person but because he knows it won't do anybody else any good to self destruct on guilt. War is full of questionable decisions you have to make but can't take back. As long as he's not blatantly disrespecting the dead, I don't think having an enduring psyche is a bad thing. Falling apart won't bring back the dead or help him support the living. If we're gonna let him live after what he did, let him be stable if he can manage it.

[@notrealatall196]

​​@@Kurayamiblack regardless of a persons justification for joining a war/military... not everyone can sleep peacefully knowing u burnt innocent men... women ... pregnant women... babies.... children. That u killed and burnt parents and their children roamed the empty streets without parents. That people asked for water while throbbing from the pains of their injuries and got toxic water to drink. ITS NORMAL to feel regret. Its NORMAL to feel that "i didnt expect my job would lead me to this." Kindness... empathy... an understanding that my war wasnt with innocent ppl... etc are expected reactions of a sane human. This man is cruel. But in reality... theres no justification for war crimes accept : it works in "my" benefit. Evry war is abt greed - extending property.... resources... power for ones own wellfare. Some r abt ur own ethinic/religious differences in opinions. Wars r an excuse to not curtailing greed that goes beyond need

[@m444ss]

your comment doesn't say much for your character. from his perspective, he saved over a million US lives. how could he live with himself if he didn't do that? why would you choose to ignore that fact and attack his morality??

[@upupa8191]

That was the lesser of evils that Japan could have suffered, a invasion would take away more, if u put both options on the table, its kinda clear with one is the "less evil"

[@Urxryzudzruzzrirzruzuztutzitz]

​@@upupa8191 In the battle of Okamawa more Japanese civilians died from bullets, bombs and shells, than both atomic bombs combined. Okinawa: 150,000+ Both A-bombs : 120,000 +

[@Imtahotep]

Tasting the bomb: I never heard this before now.

[@stupoc6715]

In 2004 I bought a 1999 Mazda Protégé fully built and assembled at the Hiroshima auto plant. Crazy.

[@Darronsanderson]

Oppenheimer was well made. I've watched it three times. Go see it today! 💣 💥

[@kunkmiceter]

Seems crazy today that the U.S. and Japan ever had beef with each other at all. I'm glad that was way before I was born.

[@kelleychilton2524]

FDR can be thanked for that. He introduced sanctions against Japan for their invasion of Manchuria and China. This essentially forced the Japanese hand. They either had to withdraw from mainland Asia (and lose face) or else they had to attack the USA. FDR knew that this would be the result and was already building up the American military in preparation for a war against Japan.

[@aguiii_films]

Im pretty sure that the US helped Japan out quite a bit after the war. Japan is what it is today thanks to the Japanese mentality and it part thanks to how the US helped them reconstruct their government post empire

[@bonk29]

He’s no hero he’s simply a man who had to do what he had to do. Say what you will hate him or revere him he had his job and he did it, and all he wanted at that point probably was for him and all his friends to go home and see their families again.

[@stevenrojas8251]

It seems as it was more of a pleasure than a job to him though

[@DotyFuzz]

If your orders are to throw the deadliest weapon ever created on a city full of civilians, maybe you should stop and think about your job

[@user-dj3bt7yh6l]

Wt abt Japanese family nd their innocent children?

[@obligatoryusername7239]

@@DotyFuzz Job of a soldier is to fight and win a war, and when it is a total industrial war like WW2, you are inevitably going to be responsible for the death of civilians as collateral (either directly or indirectly). If the mass death of civilians is so awful that it must be avoided at all cost, then the Allies should never have fought at all.

[@DotyFuzz]

@@obligatoryusername7239 and most of them still hold guilt over killing civilians in war, unlike buddy over here who's proud of nuking an entire city, plus you can't draw comparison between an average ww2 soldier and Paul Tibbet when discussing civilian casualties during war

[@stevenstreets695]

I'm a southend USAF kid....lived in Japan during Nam . Every year this time i cry my conflicted eyes out for love of Japan and my USAF family. Death to war.

[@ahsansyed7149]

Now this is called terrorism

[@shobhitkabra13]

This is called Revenge Terrorism is... well you should know

[@just_crumbs]

​@@shobhitkabra13this is way more than revenge. 💀 This is to stop a war. Although it costed many lives and trauma.

[@Sukunaglazer12]

No, it is not revenge. War should be against the soldier, not the civilian. ​@@shobhitkabra13

[@oapies6329]

@@Sukunaglazer12this. IMO, as soon as people start killing civilians in the name of war, it should be considered a war crime. Civilians did nothing wrong except be born in a certain country. They did not choose to be born there. They did not choose that their government chose to be childish and start wars.

[@Sukunaglazer12]

@@oapies6329 exactly.

[@murrismiller2312]

no one ever talks about the Japanese being dug into the mountains, and danger to the allied soldiers

[@LordFlashheart1]

If it wasn’t him it’d be someone else. Guy’s pretty cold though.

[@oanhienlong7264]

He has to be, second thoughts are dangerous.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Spoken like someone who has never seen combat. In war, you have to be 'cold.'

[@LordFlashheart1]

disgusting act of humanity participating in war.@@kelleychilton2524

[@sebastien6533]

True but it's terrible, i'm sure all of his life he thought about that......

[@LordFlashheart1]

@@kelleychilton2524 how awful

[@Sparrows1121]

He kinda looks like Carl character in "Up" pixar movie. But its interesting that he fought for what he believed in and obviously did that to end the war. Compared to Oppenheimer who regretted being part of the nuclear development.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Oppenheimer had the luxury of regret. Folks like Tibbetts had to do the fighting and dying, they didn't have the time for hand wringing, they had to end the war before hundreds of thousands more would die.

[@LB-uo7xy]

​@@kelleychilton2524So how do you know he even "FOUGHT" in the war? Being a pilot is and has never been considered REAL FIGHTING even by today's US military standards. He was just as cushy as Oppenheimer. The only difference was the more evil part.

[@RoachieWoW]

the reason good/evil are never black & white this guy killed soo many people but also potentially saved some.

[@austinb3560]

I love listening to old guys tell stories. We’ll never have a group of soldiers like this again

[@CFox.7]

whats your point ? you here to whack off to sombre tales of mass death ?

[@farooqahmed-md8fg]

Yes and you'll get your fair share for supporting such monstrosities. Wait, for we are all also waiting.

[@johngnipper8768]

@@farooqahmed-md8fg😂 right

[@John-mo6mu]

​@@farooqahmed-md8fg not all. In East and Southeast Asia, at least the parts around here that were involved in the war, the bombings are generally viewed as karmic justice. Not justice in the form of retribution or revenge, but just karmic justice. It's hard to explain in English. The only criticism I hear about it are typically coming from the west, many from Americans themselves who just knew an inkling of the brutalities in the pacific theatre. But there is a slow rise among the younger generation around here who do critic the bombings, perhaps it's tied to them consuming western media much more than asian nowadays.

[@redneckshaman3099]

I'm addicted to pigger nussy 😻

[@manohman2711]

The men in service definitely knew the outcome of dropping the bomb and I’m sure they were glad it would all be over

[@JSkates7]

This is the reason there hasn't been a WWIII. The threat of nulcear war and mutually assured destruction has kept modern wars from escalating and has probably kept many conflicts from ever starting.

[@Miko36019]

My grandfather was release by the Japanese right after the Atomic Bomb hit Hiroshima . He was a filipino army sniper was caught with the American army General Yamashita surrender 3 days later all the prisoners was let go at Bataan U.S Air base .

[@kelleychilton2524]

My salute to your grandfather👏👏 and all the Filipinos who fought against the Japanese. The Filipino people suffered terribly during the war. I've been to some of the war memorials in the Philippines and it is a very sobering experience. Thank you to your grandfather. 👍👍

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

Schofield barracks. Hickam field. The Arizona. Guadalcanal. Iwo Jima. Kwajalein. Wake Island. Manila. The Bataan march. The last message from Corregidor. You're damn right he slept well and would do it again.

[@jonnyo2121]

To all of you clutching your pearls and are shocked this guy says he'd do it again, it's because he understood that to NOT do it meant even more would suffer. The Japanese were training their civilians to run at enemy soldiers with pitchforks. Think about that: pitchforks versus a trained, battle-hardened military with machine guns, tanks and planes - they would have been slaughtered by the millions. But Japan was willing to risk all those senseless deaths if even the smallest possibility of victory remained. The US would have likewise lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers subduing the country in a ground invasion, and each of those soldiers might come back with a hundred dead civilians on their conscience. The bomb was meant to prove to Japan they didn't stand a chance and to continue would be suicide. That's what this pilot understood and why he was entirely willing to repeat his actions. It's not because he's bloodthirsty or loves what he did. It was simply the lesser of two evils.

[@lilmamagc]

still wrong no matter how you look at it. America was WRONG

[@dannymze1880]

Idk how someone can kill so many people and not feel bad about it in the future.

[@LonerStonER217]

Nazis Germany And America are the same bird

[@ennerz-hq8pq]

You kill one child and you're evil, but kill thousands from a plane and you're a hero.

[@chandelier6811]

You forgot the fact that he saved hundreds of thousands

[@STTheory]

He saved more.

[@anonony9081]

It's easy to judge these acts now but if you look at the hellish situation people at war were in I can see why someone would be willing to do this if it meant an end to that

[@kelleychilton2524]

Yes, correct. 👍👍 It's so easy for some of these smug, self-righteous commentors to do the Monday morning quarterback routine, but it's a different story when you're in the thick of battle and hundreds of thousands of people are going to continue dying if the war isn't brought to a swift ending.

[@FahadFSA]

what hell? When japan was defeated at all fronts?

[@leanit5756]

Little Boy bomb was not 22 tons. It is estimated at about 15 Kilo-tons, or 15,000 tons.

[@ZozoZoz-qh1ku]

lil boy 15000 tons! can't be true! B-29 bomber can't carry that much!

[@leanit5756]

@@ZozoZoz-qh1ku Not sure if you are joking, or not, but Little Boy weight about 5 tons. 15,000 tons was its approximate yield in TNT equivalency.

[@ZozoZoz-qh1ku]

oak lil boy, so it was 5 tons ! I was talking about weight ! lil BOY!@@leanit5756

[@markmcgoveran6811]

The debate about the atomic bomb quit stopped completely dead in the water when Fukushima failed and they figured out that they have 10,000 Hiroshima worth of radioactive uranium laying around in their power plant.

[@GrantvsMaximvs]

There is considerable evidence that Tibbetts never, in fact, dropped The Bomb. Instead, he fired his Colt 1911 .45 ACP out the window and destroyed Hiroshima.

[@politerudeboi6898]

the lords caliber

[@jasonrodgers9063]

!!!

[@LilApe]

GOBBLESS BORTHER

[@athens_1psvr31]

This is the guy who advised that it would take 5 of the bombs to get a surrender. He had planes ready to do it again and he wanted to just like the scientists and generals. When the fact is that Russia no longer assisting Japan was going to end it and the bombs were to prevent Russian advancement and growth.

[@KJBpreacher]

My grandfather was a first gunners mate in WWII. Their claim to fame…they didn’t lose a man and won many battles

[@JaafarMohamed-vy3xq]

Thousands of people lost their lives just by the move of his hand 😢

[@DontTickle]

Thousands ? That's false, it's more like hundreds of thousands. Anybody that can do this to innocent women and kids deserves eternal hell

[@Neetneet007]

@@DontTickleif the war had continued, more civilians would’ve died

[@uppy4849]

@@DontTickle it was his job, he had too. He didn't volunteer for it, but to protect mankind he had to destroy it.

[@charlesquashie7105]

@@uppy4849beautiful quote

[@Yusuf1187]

​ @DontTickle I'd argue that it's actually you - someone who prefers the deaths of millions of Japanese men, women, and children and hundreds of thousands of American men (which is what would have happened instead) - is the person who deserves hell.@@DontTickle

[@jimboslice6367]

This dude is a hero. The greatest generation CONFIRMED

[@mein3324]

We need more heroes like him in every country, especially in WW111, who will not regret killing millions of civilians.

[@jimboslice6367]

@@mein3324 damn world war 111 what year will that happen 4089? 😂

[@an000n]

@@mein3324autistic

[@tamalsarkar2893]

Give this man an award for telling himself that black is white

[@bruh-man3908]

I wonder if the crew and the commanding officers are (were) banned entry to Japan. I know how US and Japan’s relation ended up but still, I personally would feel humiliated.

[@bobthebear1246]

Very interesting. Very fascinating. Very sobering.

[@Inspiration5028]

The fact that he says "I might take SOME lives but I'll save many more" shows how merciless he is OR how brainwashed he is. That SOME lives he is talking about died in the worst manner and their generations are still going through the trauma.

[@maithevnesegirl6404]

The men fighting and the civillians living in the jungles and on the islands suffered much worse deaths than those killed by the bomb and radiation.

[@best0616]

He is not wrong if the war continued death toll would have been higher

[@abysswalker3891]

He is not wrong you hipocrites think how much lives would be lost lmao

[@revloutionary]

He served his nation

[@Dragoncam13]

Okay and? This is why you're not in the military