Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Operations Room

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[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Just a heads up that I'm aware there seems to be some choppiness in some parts of this video. I'm not sure why except that there must have been some glitch in the recording software. Apologies.

[@helloimskip]

Don't worry it's fine, at least the audio is still great.

[@nickmyers3065]

I was trying to figure out whats wrong with my wifi lol

[@helloimskip]

@@nickmyers3065 same, I thought it was my device lagging

[@Adr1231]

This is amazing

[@heathertaylor8646]

Wow

[@ft2bme]

Thanks for reacting to this. My mom survived the bombing, and when she died about 20 years ago she was officially listed as a victim. Her brother died in the bombing itself, as did all my mom’s classmates.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Sorry that happened to your family. Thank you for sharing that.

[@kieranfrancke790]

Very sorry for you and your family.

[@charlayned]

Very sorry for your losses and that you family had to go through that. ((hugs))

[@TranslucentGanon]

As ChatGPT said when I asked it to describe JFK’s assassination that is not poggers

[@marie_h1104]

I am so sorry.

[@Ozai75]

The first bomb cutting off his narration and making the entire scene go pure white was a genius bit of film making.

[@antoninuspius1747]

Just to clarify, the reason there was no fighter escort was not range. Fighters were easily within range from Okinawa. There were several reasons but a big one was that the US had sent numerous solo B-29's on reconaissance missions over all of Japan, so much so that Japan essentially ignored them. It was thought a couple B-29's wouldn't attract much attention.

[@NPC_-mf4dw]

"The guy she told you not to worry about."

[@cabin4999]

its also worth mentioning the Japanese airforce had been significantly degraded to that point both in aircraft and pilot quantity/quality

[@anderskorsback4104]

Also, Japanese air defence of the home islands was another victim of Japan's extreme Army-Navy inter-service rivalry. Both branches had their own air forces, and both thought it was the job of the other one to defend the home islands from bombing. The Allies lost over a thousand bombers over Germany, but only 60-something over Japan.

[@professorwhat2704]

Does anyone else find it sadly appropriate that there was a plane called "Necessary Evil" involved?

[@hyliantraveler10]

I think they named the plane retroactively!

[@svenrio8521]

Feels like something straight out of Shakespeare, doesn't it?

[@franciscodetonne4797]

Dare I say the US was fully aware of themselves... Being evil, that is.

[@hvbking5624]

Just names 😂

[@sundoga4961]

A subject that doesn't come up much is that the second bombing shocked the Japanese scientific establishment. Japan had it's own atomic bomb program, so they knew some of the problems with building one - and in particular, they knew the problem of separating U-235 from U-238. They had not solved this problem. They assumed that the US scientists had used the manual method of separating U-235 over a course of years to build the Hiroshima bomb - a difficult but comprehensible task. With a second bomb, they were faced with the fact that the US had managed to get an efficient separation process - and while the Nagasaki bomb was actually a Plutonium bomb, this as in fact true, the Manhattan Project HAD solved that difficulty.

[@Mr10johnny10]

Crazy that despite this fact, the Russian invasion of Manchukuo, and the possible invasion of the home island; there was still a coup attempt to prevent surrender. Absolutely wild level of extremism.

[@willevensen7130]

@@Mr10johnny10damn. you know any good videos or sites on the attempted coup? That sounds interesting and I haven’t heard of it

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@Mr10johnny10for those in charge they likely expected to be executed if defeated, so no incentive to surrender unless they actually cared about others.

[@coldwar45]

The people that planned the attempted coup knew that for them it was either win or be executed.@@Mr10johnny10

[@MichaelBOverthinking]

When I worked in cardiothoracic surgery, we had a patient that came in that was 9 years old and lived in Nagasaki. She had multiple lung nodule removals and eventually a lobectomy. All due to the radiation poisoning from the bomb. In her chart, we literally had to put "Atomic blast survivor from WWII" As part of her workup prior to each surgery we performed.

[@alexmoore4219]

9 or 90?

[@devildog6513]

Maybe a slight trolling attempt here, but isn’t this a HIIPA violation?

[@MichaelBOverthinking]

No, because I didn't give out her name. Birthdate or anything. @@devildog6513

[@airsoftpopcorn]

@@devildog6513no, it is only really a hipaa violation if they gave out the name and basically doxxed the person

[@junglebill9823]

My mother was in a Japanese as a young teen and wouldn’t have survived the war because she was on the brink of starvation. I wouldn’t have been alive if the bombs weren’t dropped.

[@Geographus666]

Interesting fact about Little Boy: It consisted of about 64 kg of enriched Uranium, of which only about 1 kg underwent fission, the rest was scattered before that could happen. Also 99.9% of the mass of the uranium that underwent fission was still there after the fact in form of the fission products, meaning that the whole city was destroyed by 0.7 grams of mass converted into energy.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Crazy when you think about it.

[@toreeadams9873]

my sister in law lives in Oak Ridge Tennessee. We visited and toured the facility and sites where the atomic bombs were developed. They're huge! The museum they have gives a great insight into what went into the bomb and how the town was built and operated.

[@charlayned]

Our girl scout troop got to tour Los Alamos and I had my atomic energy badge from that trip. It was very interesting.

[@sector986]

I live in oak ridge

[@PalmelaHanderson]

Someone brought up a good point the other day regarding the dropping of the bombs. The only reason nuclear bombs haven't been used in war since August 1945 is *because* they were used in August 1945. It's not hard to imagine an alternate history where the US does not use the bombs, Japan surrenders after the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, and the world heads into a cold war with everyone having much more itchy trigger fingers. Something to think about, anyway.

[@CarterElkins]

I think this is a sage point, made even more so by the fact that today’s nuclear weapons dwarf the power and scale of those early bombs. It’s difficult to comprehend the level of destructive power contained in one modern warhead… but thankfully, in most cases it’s also difficult to imagine a realistic scenario in which one would be used today. I agree that these two bombs play a big role in that.

[@Calebe428]

@@CarterElkins Terrifying to think that these bombs are pretty small compared to more modern and end of cold war ones

[@thomasmurray7941]

This is complete conjecture

[@franciscodetonne4797]

When the first bomb blows up and interrupts the narrator, it was a very sobering moment for me. It was shocking and horrifying. Great, great editing there.

[@LasseEklof]

It is amazing to read about Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was working in Hiroshima when the bomb fell and badly burned he made his way home to Nagasaki where he was treated in hospital when the next bomb fell.

[@5tarSailor]

Yeah Chris, you were right that the USS Indianapolis was a heavy cruiser. In the Navy at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, we have a building named Indianapolis that was built for the purpose of teaching new recruits how to swim in the case of abandon ship. Indianapolis casualties were as high as they were because people either drowned or were subject to shark attacks. I had to go back at one point because i had failed the swim the first time and the barracks were on the complete opposite side of the base from that building. So i had to double time it by myself from my compartment to the pool, re do my swim exam, shower, double time it back. Good times The captain of the Indianapolis, Charles B. McVay survived the sinking and was court martialed for losing his ship. The reasons given were that he didn't do zigzag maneuvers, failed to give the order to abandoned ship. Out of all the ships lost during the war, McVay was the only one court martialed for the loss because technically the sinking was the Navy's fault. For one, he had requested destroyer escorts because his ship didn't have appropriate equipment to detect submarines, but was denied. A destroyer escort, the USS Underhill, had been sunk about a week prior in the same area as his route would take him but he wasn't informed of that sinking so he had no good intel to assess threats. They also said he failed to send a distress message, but he did and was received by 3 different stations but none passed it on. One station thought is was a Japanese false flag, another had a drunk officer in charge, and the third had an officer tell his men that he was going to sleep and not to disturb him under any circumstance. Also, both a U.S. submarine commander and a Japanese submarine commander both testified that zigzagging was not gonna protect his ship from torpedos, and several crew testified that the order to abandon ship wasn't needed because by the time the torpedo hit, the ship had immediately lost power and was almost split in half. Anyone on the decks knew immediately to get off the ship. So it was clear that the Navy used him as the fall guy for this screw up which later led to him committing suicide in his home in Connecticut. He was later exonerated by Congress in 2000 after decades of effort from survivors of his crew and his son trying to clear his name. Really sad story even after the sinking what happened to her and her crew.

[@pokemaster123ism]

It wasn’t just any submarine commander, it was Mochitsura Hashimoto, the commander of I-58, the sub that sank the Indianapolis

[@finndexter2639]

Hey Chris, you absolutley must see Oppenheimer in IMAX if there is a local theater still playing it. Looking forward to your review!

[@mattm7798]

Yeah, kinda surprised that hasn't happened yet, since the film reviewed really well and seemed, for a good part, to be pretty accurate.

[@Alexs.2599]

Yeah I would love to see it in IMAX.

[@a.wenger3964]

Saw the movie twice now! Once in IMAX 70mm & once in regular 70mm. The sound quality for IMAX was intense! The music and effects shook my heart to its core. Definitely makes seening in person worthwhile, since no home entertainment system comes close to the experience!

[@andypandy4607]

@@a.wenger3964I didn’t watch it in imax but if I did, I think I’d have a heart attack!

[@svenrio8521]

​@mattm7798 Chris said he hadn’t seen it because it's a 3 hour long movie and he hasn't had the time. I think his son is heading back to school as well, so he has even less free time.

[@ThatGUY666666]

I visited the Truman Presidential Library earlier this year which is well worth a visit along with the WWI museum if you are interested in history and in the KC area. As you walk through museum you will come to a small circular room. In the center you will find the safety cap that had been over the Fatman bomb before it was dropped. Behind that you will find a small origami crane that was folded by a little girl who was 2 when the Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, at first everyone thought she was fine but unfortunately she developed leukemia 9 years later, before she died she folded the crane in the museum along with 999 others due to a Japanese legend that if you fold 1,000 origami cranes you get a wish, she wished for peace. It is an incredibly powerful sight to behold and left me with a feeling I can only describe as "heavy" that I have only felt at two other times in my life thus far, once when I visited Arlington cemetery and once when I visited Ground Zero in New York. Like I said it a very powerful experience and I fully recommend that anyone who is interested make a trip to check it out.

[@rmeyer0122]

I read a book about that little girl when I was a child.

[@freestylingwhistler]

i just love that there's pretty much always a 10+ minute difference between the reaction vid and the video you are reacting to. Thanks for adding so much info and context!

[@williamdavis2960]

That pause, right after the detonation... wow. Really shows the weight of the act.

[@CuriosityCult24]

RIP to the fallen ones 🙏

[@MannyBXNG]

Yes 🙏

[@CyberDrewan]

Been following your channel for a few years, Chris. Enjoy what you do and keep up the good content!

[@mike6252]

Thank you for covering a video from the Operations Room channel! I’ve been a big fan ever since I discovered em’ 👍

[@-PVL93-]

Speaking of the atomic bombings, there's a fantastic 2-hour essay by Shaun about the subject. I wonder if yiu could react to that too someday as it goes into the events right prior and how messy the communication was between the military higher ups of the Japanese empire, which played a part and could've potentially prevented so many deaths

[@gucci1131]

The Operations Room have so many great videos, love watching them all Happy to see your reaction/thoughts too! Always adding in more good stuff 👍

[@TheOperationsRoom]

Ipswich Town eh? Hmm..

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Haha…I’m a huge Ed Sheeran fan so I had to get it since he’s the kit sponsor.

[@GeorgeLe]

Please do more operations room. An incredible channel on the tactic side which can be enhanced by your historical context!

[@kehleaufgrossemstein]

Just recently discovered The Operations Room and have been binging it since (Including this video), really elated to see you react to it.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

When I visited the Nimitz Museum in Texas a number of years ago, they had a model of Fat Man in the courtyard. I was shocked to see just how small that thing is--about the size of a small car. That little thing, causing so much destruction, is absolutely mind-blowing.

[@eirikjormundgandrson]

You know you've made it as a youtuber when the number of views is more than the seconds it's been uploaded

[@luis_g_77]

Some get to see it early. I watched it on patreon yesterday.

[@pwalmsley9]

On the back of this video I went and caught up with some more of The Operations Room content. Really, really impressed. I'd love to see more of your commentary on their work - especially their series on the Battle of the Bulge.

[@jtdavis62]

This year I watched excellent Operations Room animations about the battles of Iwo Jima and the Bulge.

[@gedarreglado9288]

Just came across your channel and have loved all your content. Keep up the great work man!

[@HistorySavior1941]

Awesome video man! Enjoyed this one a lot!

[@johnwayne8517]

Are you a big sports fan Chris? was just thinking it would be so cool going over historic events, especially as a non-American would be cool learning about some huge sporting moments in the US. Was just an idea!

[@ccourt46]

Biggest knock on Oppenheimer is the music makes a lot of dialogue hard to hear. If you have any hearing problems ask the theatre for hearing assistance or closed captioning.

[@jeros2911]

Keep up the great work Chris!

[@adamcookejournalism]

Less than an hour ago I was watching another reaction where you mentioned the bombings briefly, tried to find a video with a more in depth analysis and couldn’t but here we are 30 min later!

[@CodyChepa88]

Just saw Oppenheimer and i loved it. Keep up the great work Chris

[@graffitisamurai]

The city of Kokura being spared led to the creation of the term "Kokura luck" which refers to the lucky avoidance of a great misfortune

[@The_Fat_Controller.]

It more accurately refers to luckily escaping something bad happening without realizing you were in danger in the first place. One of the best known people with "Kokura's Luck" was Dr. Tetsuya Fujita, who later created the Fujita Scale to measure tornado wind speeds by the damage they caused. I have never seen anything stating exactly where he would have been in Kokura had the bomb been dropped there. The intended target for the bomb was the massive weapons manufacturing facilities.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos man! Keep up the good work 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@jonathanfaulkner878]

I bet many a Japanese citizen in Kokura became VERY spiritual in the years after the war.

[@lebcio-7722]

What what a timing I was thinking about going to watch the Oppenheimer movie and you just uploaded this can't wait to watch it

[@asylvius4626]

Really glad to see you reacting to this. I've always tried to be as unbiased as possible regarding anything in history as we all should. But this will always be the one topic I simply cannot do for. The historian in me understands, after reading through the documentation and Truman's situation, that the bombs were most likely necessary to save both the lives of allied troops and Japanese. But at the same time, my grandfather was the only person in my family lucky enough to happen to be out of town when the bomb on Hiroshima fell. And looking at the one picture he still has of his family, hearing him talk about how in just a day every single person he had ever loved had been reduced to ash despite them doing absolutely nothing wrong. I could never bring myself to look in his eyes again if I told myself that it was justified. I just can't do it. In fact both sides of my family were killed as a result of war, my mother's family was killed by American troops during the Vietnam war because they were mistaken for Vietcong. Their stories have inspired me to teach people about the part of war so many of us forget about, the prospective of the innocent. So I'm really glad we can talk about these difficult events and acknowledge the greater picture without ignoring the cost of innocent life.

[@notdeveloperh]

can you watch the battle of midway from the Japanese's perspective from Montemayor? im sure you'd love the deep dive he goes into those videos

[@gordonleemovies]

Seeing Oppenheimer for a second time tonight. Amazing movie & tragic history. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts

[@keiranallcott1515]

Good reaction video , just one thing I would like to add , I think in about March 1945, p51d mustangs were used to escort b29 flying from Iwo Jima , along with later the p47n thunderbolts , and I think they were able to cover the whole of Japan , and to add to that point , you’ve got the USN operating carriers conducting raids into Japan , and even battleships bombarding the home islands themselves.

[@trinalgalaxy5943]

My great grandfather was a dentist in Oak Ridge back in 44/45. When we took my grandparents back to Tennessee for a trip, my grandmother was able to pick out the EXACT house she and her father lived in over half a century later!

[@godwarrior3403]

Always a fascinating topic. I know as a Christian I shouldn't fear death at all, and I know the end result is the same regardless of how it happens, but for some reason nuclear bombs are the only thing I've learned about so far that actually scare me. I can't imagine being able to live with myself after dropping it. I can't imagine doing that to innocent people. The destruction in seconds, knowing someone had just hugged their kid, fought with their wife, paid for breakfast, not knowing a bomb was about to kill them in a flash. It's like the concentrated ugliness of war.

[@everburn]

Really puts it into perspective just how tragic these bombings were.

[@Icemann89]

The tragedy of being killed in an instant is premature end of your life. It's much worse to die slowly and painfully from lethal dose of radiation. Firebombing was also a cruel way to die.

[@godwarrior3403]

@@Icemann89 War is full of hard things. Quick deaths and slow ones. Hard things seen and living with things not done. There are many cruel things about war.

[@Icemann89]

@@godwarrior3403 You said nuclear bombs are the only thing that scare you. More specifically the instantaneous death of unsuspecting civilians. My point is: That's actually the best death you can get in war. But it still is a tragedy because you won't be able to enjoy the rest of your life.

[@badcornflakes6374]

Imagine if they still used mustard gas...

[@thelifeofrych]

Can't wait for your opinion/review on Oppenheimer! Very excited

[@Powerkraut1]

Looking forward to your take on Oppenheimer. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while and I’d love to know if it’s historically accurate

[@bradyfox1221]

My grandparents, their brothers and sisters, and good number of family friends actually worked/lived at Los Alamos in New Mexico specifically for the development of “Fat Man”. Once they discovered the sheer destruction the bomb yielded they were so incredibly remorseful, even the people that didn’t directly involve themselves with the actual development of the bomb itself. They felt that them simply being there sealed the fate of millions of lives. It’d be cool if you could do a video discussing and showing what exactly those towns were like. Love the vids!

[@jakegearrin9198]

I had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima in June. It was incredible to see such a unique window of history. It was also so horrid to read personal accounts of many victims from the bombs. It is indescribable the feeling of actually being at such an important historical site.

[@Lukasgate]

I always got major Dad vibes from my history teachers over the years, and you've peaked

[@VonKraut]

Like the mention of the Indianapolis, would love to see you do a reaction to a video on it. My grandfather was one of the survivors on it when it went down.

[@beasthercules5807]

Huge fan of your channel!!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Much appreciated!

[@mouthpiece806]

i know you said that this isn’t a video discussing the validity of the use of the bombs, however, i would *highly* recommend watching shaun’s deep analysis of their use. it is incredibly eye-opening to say the least

[@treythanbeaty2681]

I’m from oak ridge Tennessee which is where they enriched the uranium and plutonium for the atomic bombs, the museum we have here is awesome, and 2 of the 3 research stations are still up and running working on particle acceleration

[@evilguy920]

To bring up a quote hank green used in relation to the ocean gate submersible, but relevant here too, there is so much energy released that, if you were close enough to the bomb, you ceased to be a biological organism and just became an element of physics.

[@texasvet2729]

Hope you’ll cover the Battle of Saipan! My wife is from the island, which was hell on Earth during the clash for the island. Literally a place called “Purple Heart Ridge” for the mind blowing casualties US forces experienced.

[@Xenin7]

I actually read somewhere that Kyoto was considered a target at one point, but it was rejected because Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of War, asked for Kyoto to be removed from the target list because of its historical, religious and cultural significance and the President agreed with him and in Kyoto's place, Nagasaki was put on the target list instead.

[@svenrio8521]

Henry had his honeymoon there, that also probably influenced him.

[@dbach1025]

He allegedly honeymooned there and was in love with the city.

[@izukukageyama7552]

That was mentioned in the movie Oppenheimer

[@Nmille98]

Maybe, but Truman also ordered the bomb target "Naval shipyards and military centers", so idk if Kyoto would've made the final list anyway.

[@PopeSixtusVI]

I don't know how he takes reaction videos but Kraut the Parrot's Allied Bombings were Justified video is must watch, even if you can't do a reaction.

[@DVLD0GG98]

The operations room is fantastic. Love their First gulf war air combat video. The way NATO utilized air strikes and coordinated was incredible.

[@Corsair37]

Another great reaction video (I'm a big fan of WWII history, so I love it when you do this kind of stuff). I'm looking forward to you diving into whether the bombings were necessary or not. My father was a WWII veteran, and he felt they were. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to second guess Truman and the allies on this, and I could see an argument being made that the second bombing, so close to the first, might have been unnecessary. Then again, we had spent 4 years fighting Imperial Japan, and they had shown that they would - many, many times - fight to the last man standing. As always, its the civilians who pay the highest price in war.

[@rickwiles8835]

I think the dropping of both bombs was necessary to shorten the war. Truman saying we will drop another on you, and another and another to you surrender certainly pushed Japan to the peace table. Add to that Russia was about to bust down their back door all but the most fanatical militarist knew peace was the only way Japan, or what was left of it would survive. There is no debate about that. A more interesting debate is should we have dismantled and destroyed the plants that built the bomb and information on how to build the bomb as Oppenheimer suggested/wanted? My heart says yes but the echo of Newton saying, "What one fool can learn so can another" rings in my ears.

[@KingOfThePirates101]

​@@rickwiles8835So much for Honor for the Japanese at that time.

[@sld1776]

Building the bomb is an engineering problem. The science could not be kept secret.

[@coldwar45]

TBh, I think the only other way is maybe if the US had detonated it somewhere else to show what they had.

[@SmedleyDouwright]

I think the Navy officer on the Hiroshima mission was at the Trinity test, and he armed the bomb, which included installing the "charge" for the Uranium gun after take off from Tinian. They were afraid a crash on take off might ignite the "gun" charge, which I think was black powder. Enola Gay flew at 10,000 feet until the bomb was armed near Iwo Jima with the plugs mentioned, and the plane climbed to about 30,000 feet. The bomb bay was not pressurized and the Navy officer needed access to the bomb. The KZbin site "WWII US Bombers" has some good videos on the Atomic missions.

[@michaelstewart5275]

I enjoyed your reaction to the description of Fat Man almost blowing up en route to Nagasaki. I think I made the same face when I heard that.

[@CaptainB1994]

Fun Fact, Fat Man is the name given to the Nuclear Bomb Launcher that features in the Fallout franchise.

[@Crabbiy]

4:07 I think we should do both. Look at it from our perspective and from theirs.

[@Grandy_UiD]

I know it's more recent history and the channel tends to steer away from that but I would love to see Chris' reaction as an American to "Volkers Pispers history of USA and terrorism".

[@BULL.173]

My grandpa was a B-29 pilot in the Pacific. I'm pretty sure some of his bombs contributed to that smoke cloud over Kokura. The night before Fat Man was dropped my grandpa's bombardment wing hit a nearby city called Yawata. It touched off a pretty big firestorm. And there was actually ample fighter cover available for our bombers over southern Japan. Any sizeable daytime raid would usually get P-47's out of Okinawa.

[@thseed7]

Examination of whether it was necessary is an important conversation that needs to be had.

[@jednoth6990]

hey chris, just thought i’d add when they detonate the bomb in the sky it also caused a emp which disables all electrical equipment

[@Rocketsong]

Not really true for WWII era electrical equipment. One of the reasons the soviets used vacuum tubes in their aircraft into the 1980s is that they are not affected by EMP.

[@almetz79able]

I just finished Oppenheimer on Peacock. I came here looking for your review and sadly didn't see it. Side note..i also finally finshed Band of Brothers and am moving on to The Pacific in order to then finish up with Masters of the Air. Did you do any videos about The Pacific miniseries?

[@Tombobreaker]

You mentioned that the story of the Indianapolis is a story for another time, BazBattles recently did a video on that which I'm about to watch now, could be a good quick reaction video as it's only 9 minutes long.

[@charliejones8909]

From my dad: Yeah, thanks for that !! Uncle Ken, your grandpa's brother, was stationed on Tinion when the B-29's took off. He said the crews had special guarded quarters, and the planes were kept separate from any other aircraft. No one was allowed within 100 yards, except authorised personnel. They knew something was up, but didn't know what !!

[@instantbadass]

Plutonium was so easy to come buy because it's available in every corner drugstore!

[@Alexs.2599]

Yes 1.1 21 gigawatts great Scott!

[@user-ld4xx1el6q]

Yes Chris, the Marines are a department of the Navy, the men's department!

[@gkiferonhs]

In preparing the uranium the factory workers were told nothing about it except that the containers of the purified material couldn't be kept in the same room (they could achieve critical mass just sitting in the warehouse), so they were divided into four rooms. When Richard Feynman toured the plant he noticed that those four rooms shared a corner and got the barrels moved before there was an unexpected explosion,

[@ktaylorjackson]

Hey Chris I actually saw the FEFE b 29

[@seansoccer100]

Good video. Did you win your game? What position do you play?

[@jamessapp4989]

Potential History also did a video about what caused the Japanese surrender. It is definitely something worth watching.

[@mdavissq3d]

I don't know if you are an anime guy but check out Barefoot Gen. It's a historical manga about the experiences of Hiroshima survivors. It was later made into an anime and you can still find clips of it on youtube. When the bomb drops and what it does to the people... its a cartoon but its still pretty shocking. It really makes you never want the world to get into a nuclear war.

[@MovieFan1912]

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Oppenheimer.

[@nicholasgregory2462]

Let’s go! Its always a good day when VTH uploads!!

[@Andrew-ep4kw]

The Trinity bomb was also an implosion type. The test was because it was a new design, necessary because a gun-type weapon would not work with plutonium; the core would go supercritical before the slug impacted, producing a reduced reaction known as a fizzle. Since the uranium bomb could be a gun-type which was considered extremely reliable (and because there was only enough uranium for one bomb), no test of the gun-type weapon was performed.

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

I'm not entirely sure, but i think that Uranium City in Northern Alberta/Saskatchewan was build entirely to service the mining operations.

[@CosmosJack]

Iron atoms from Little Boy were hurled into space, and passed the Moon's orbit about one second after the explosion. This was because of the bomb's configuration: there was an internal steel "gun barrel" used to fire one uranium mass into another, and when the barrel vaporized its atoms followed its direction (This according to "To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima" by Charles Pellegrino)

[@mikearmstrong8483]

I suggest you find better sources than Charles Pelligrino, because he is clearly full of BS. Anything going from the Earth to the moon in 1 second would be travelling faster than the speed of light, which is impossible for matter.

[@bradyboy7092]

Please do some more naval combat videos from operations room, please

[@moneymastermind2698]

Captain Lewis after the dropping of the bomb in Hiroshima: “My God. What have we done?”

[@osrizzo9219]

If you ever get a chance to go to Hiroshima, I highly recommend you go to the the atomic bomb museum, it's a haunting experience. Especially the section dedicated to the city before the bombing.

[@youngsinatra1]

Lol VTH I swear i just watched this video an hour before you uploaded😅

[@rp7ghostdivision978]

If you go to the national museum of the us Air Force in Dayton, Ohio they actually have the bockscar there on display it a place I recommend visiting and they have 2 other really cool aircraft there

[@mutantraniE]

One interesting fact not mentioned in the Operations Room video, is that one man, First Lieutenant Jacob Beser, actually flew on both strike Aircraft, Enola Gay and Bockscar, for both missions. He was the only man who was on both weapon delivery planes. He was the electronic countermeasures officer on both missions. This probably puts him up there as one of the, if not the, people who have been directly involved in the killing of the most people through all of history.

[@jacksonfitzsimmons4253]

American hero. Thank you Mr. Beser for helping to end the brutality of Imperial Japan

[@shinnaay]

Worth searching up the "Barefoot Gen Atomic Bomb Scene" on KZbin - pretty surreal/horrific animated depiction of the Hiroshima Bomb

[@luiscruz7343]

It is staggering to hear the number of people killed in a flash. Cant even wrap my head around that... and to think we have way worse bombs than these two in the arsenal its just crazy

[@ceeteefatjo]

This is such an interesting topic. The use of nuclear weapons will always be debated since they are so devastating. Many like to talk about the lives saved by their use however that does not make the loss of life anymore palatable. Ultimately I think that the US very much wanted to be in control of peace negotiations, or in this case the unconditional surrender that ensued to reduce the reach of the USSR. It really is sad however what happened to these people! Thank you for another interesting video.

[@jazmine.leigh227]

As someone born & raised in Oak Ridge, we learned a TON about this in school growing up. We have a great museum about it & research still being done at ORNL & Y-12. We joke that we all glow in the dark 😂

[@jamesbumbalough946]

Have you been to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patt to see the Bockscar? Really cool to see such an important piece of aviation history in our home state of Ohio,

[@charlayned]

Enola Gay is at the Smithsonian as well.

[@NicholasDolas-vi3gw]

Hey VTH, Great reaction to a great video. Also, when are you going to finish your reaction series to Useful Charts’ Christian Denominations family tree? The last part has been up for nearly two months now, and I’d love to see what you think of it (and, as a completionist, unfinished series annoy me).

[@Scottynsb765]

Nice to see you were wearing an Ipswich Town shirt.

[@charlayned]

There was a girl in my high school whose father had worked on the Enola Gay and had named his daughter after the plane. She went by Gay and it was weird when we studied that part of history and they named the plane. She passed away about 4 years ago, I think from cancer, which is quite ironic given the situation.

[@MichaelBOverthinking]

Chris, of you had to choose one team, would it be the Baggies or the Tractor Boys?