Hiroshima: After the Bomb (Short Animated Documentary)

We all know about the first use of atomic weapons in warfare when the USA employed one on the city of Hiroshima at the end of World War 2. Yet what was life like in the city in the hours, days and weeks afterwards? Find out by watching this short and simple animated documentary.
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Sources:
The Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima: An Eye-Witness Account (Continued) by P. T. Siemes
Imagining Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, Armageddon, and the Annihilation of the Students of Ichijo School by James H. Foard

[@jonbaxter2254]

How utterly terrifying to be a recon plane to check out a city you swore was there yesterday

[@scottydu81]

"Dude, I swear, I had shit to do there tomorrow!"

[@bangscutter]

And see a mushroom cloud over where the city was supposed to be. It's a sight never seen before by most people, and probably resembled that of a volcanic eruption to someone who saw it the first time.

[@mathewkelly9968]

The US had razed most Japanese cities to the ground anyway . Hiroshima and Nagasaki where left alone just so they be nuked .

[@MichaelJ44]

Jon Baxter It’s true. I was the yesterday

[@frozengrip2609]

@@mathewkelly9968 Pretty much. The Firebombing of Tokyo killed and destroyed more people and structures than the nukes.

[@NolaWarNerve]

Just looked him up. Died in 2010 born 1916 man lived through 2 a bombs and for 94 years. What a legend

[@B3RyL]

The simple fact that he's the only person in history to become the victim of two atomic bombings is mindblowing enough. The fact that after all that he lived a full life until the tender age of 94 is just unbelievable. He truly IS a legend in every sense of the word.

[@bletrick3352]

God had to Nerf him somehow so he used two atomic bombs to injure him otherwise the dude would’ve lived forever

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

That man has a better claim to immortality than jesus.

[@delanovanraalte3186]

@@B3RyL well radiation is good for your live expetancy apparrently

[@B3RyL]

@Henry Bushell He probably wasn't the only one who left Hiroshima for Nagasaki, but he's the only Nijou Hibakusha (double atomic bombing survivor) to have been confirmed by the Japanese government. There is actually a documentary which claims that there were more than 160 Nijou Hibakusha or something like that, but their accounts could not be verified. Many people died of post-bombing wounds and complications too, so the line between "survivor" and "casualty" gets kinda blurry. In any case, he's the only one who was officially recognized as a 100% confirmed Nijou Hibakusha.

[@AjarTadpole7202]

"He was able to escape Hiroshima" WOO HOO! "He then moved to Nagasaki" OH NO!

[@kimjongun329]

"But he survived" WOO HOO!

[@Misquif]

@@kimjongun329 "but later in his years he got, Leukemia, Cataracts and Stomach Cancer. OH FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOO"

[@tacolepaco]

@@Misquif What happened next.

[@yamato3894]

@@tacolepaco He died in 1990 if I remember correctly , making him the oldest survivor of an atomic bombardement and one of the only survivor of two bombs.

[@tacolepaco]

@@yamato3894 Wow

[@nathanjohnwilliamson7675]

Can’t decide if Yamaguchi is the luckiest or unluckiest guy to ever live tbh

[@tomasziskierka9557]

Yes, that a tough one.

[@aaronhenderson670]

By the sound of it, a bit of both

[@KorriTimigan]

Por que no los dos?

[@Player-rv8ph]

Both

[@clarky23]

your answer is yes.

[@SivakAurak]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi when arriving in Nagasaki: "You wouldn't believe what just happened to me, there was a big bright flash kinda like that one over OH FU-"

[@weijiafang1298]

Yamaguchi: A bomb had completely destroyed Hiroshima. Boss: There is no way a bomb that powerful can be constructed. I cannot believe you unless I see it...

[@PyroPuffs777]

Weijia Fang he never saw it because the flash ended everything in an instant rip in piece.

[@LeuKang]

"Yesterday I was in Hiroshima and a bright flash occurred and the city was gone" "That's bs" *Bright flash outside boss's window* "You've got to shitting me"

[@deadby15]

Weijia Fang This got me thinking.. probably there were some people who were sent to both a German death camp AND a Soviet Gulag.

[@freddiemercury8625]

@@deadby15 I believe there should have been at least some Polish military personnel that probably did that since, both, the Nazis and the Soviets wanted the Polish command to get eradicated e.g. the Katyn Massacre for the Soviet Union (a lot of Polish military officers and higher ups died there, so I imagine somebody must've made it out and got caught by the Nazis).

[@adamesd3699]

I read about Yamaguchi. He was obviously traumatized by his experience in Hiroshima, so went back to his hometown of Nagasaki to recover mentally and physically. When Nagasaki got bombed, he at first wondered if the great fire he had seen in Hiroshima had somehow followed him to Nagasaki. Just imagine that.

[@michaelrizka]

"If I had a coin for each time I've survived a nuclear bombing, I would've had 2, which is not much but very strange considering the circumstances" - Yamaguchi, probably

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

More coins than any non-military personnel right? Assuming being miles away in a bunker counts as surviving and not cheating. Otherwise; he easily holds the record.

[@emilsingapurcan8054]

Is 2 alot? Depends on the context. Coins? No. Survived nukes? Yeah definitely.

[@roadent217]

In the land of the destitute, the 2-coined man is king.

[@jacktheflash8478]

Mousazz okay

[@jacktheflash8478]

Falfo N ?

[@fakechloe207]

Everybody asks "who is James Bizzonett?" But no one asks " how is James Bizzonett?"

[@luminica_]

When is James Bizzonett?

[@stevenchoza6391]

Luminica I’ll do you one better: Why is James Bizzonett?

[@melonschooleducationandlea4653]

But the FBI ask: WhErE iS jAmEs BiZzOnEtT?

[@Zombie1Boy]

@@stevenchoza6391 WHAT IS JAMES BIZZONETT?!

[@alejandrojoserodriguezarre45]

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS *deep voice * James Bizzonet?

[@donk5058]

"...decided to seek shelter in his home town, Nagasaki." Me: Wayaminute

[@TheRandomInfinity]

Kaboom?

[@Brysvfx]

@@TheRandomInfinity kaboom.

[@josephdoria5237]

@@TheRandomInfinity yes Rico, kaboom.

[@Oof-th5hz]

Kaboom.

[@hilmigold1233]

Kaboom

[@GarlicPudding]

This raises a (very video-worthy) question: *What was life like in Occupied Germany and Japan?*

[@alanpennie8013]

You can read A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro to find out about life in Nagasaki after the bombing. A very spooky book.

[@TheGenericVideoGamer]

james bizzanett

[@Scarletraven87]

Memories of a Geisha had something on the subject, but it's a novel so not necessarily accurate.

[@odysseusrex5908]

There are several that have already been done on both.

[@Pfisiar22]

@@odysseusrex5908 Life in occupied germany was pretty awful, particularly in berlin where food shortages and inflation were rampant. Not helping this was an ongoing and escalating feud between the US and Soviet Union over what to do with germany. Eventually, the USSR blockaded Berlin and the cold war began as a result.

[@scottmalkinson9545]

He survived Hiroshima so he moved to nagasaki big oof.

[@ggggyedidad1395]

This is the best history channel

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

So he moved to an isolated island north of Russia in 1961 *Even bigger oof*

[@garybrown2039]

Yea that sucks . But at least he survived to tell the world about it.

[@makaveli6873]

LMAOOOOOOO bruh I burst out laughing at a store and mfs looked at me like 😳

[@MisterCynic18]

unluckiest man ever to live

[@keauxgeigh]

A few years ago a U.S. mayor visited Hiroshima and asked his counterpart why Hiroshima's roads were so organized and orderly while other cities in Japan were so chaotic. Reportedly the Hiroshima mayor said something like, "Well, we had some help from (you) the Americans".

[@andrewcopple7075]

US elected officials don't seem to have much in the way of brainpower or historical education. That does not bode well for America.

[@willhaney96]

As in rapidly disassembly or rapid reconstruction?

[@JackHankeAnd]

@@willhaney96 Probably both.

[@Vertutame]

Which is kinda bad to japan's policy, really. They are disencouraging people to use car. I did live in Seno city [Higashi hiroshima] went to Hiroshima from time to time, the street were big and has many lanes but pretty empty. Most people are just using public transport anyway so. not really a good thing.

[@hazardeur]

that US mayor seems not to be the sharpest tool in the shed. not suprising

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

I remember when my Japanese-Canadian friend was sorting through some hoarded stuff of his mother's (whose father hailed from Hiroshima), and he showed me a 1945 letter he found which ended with: "We had made plans to visit the old hometown once the war ended, but have now decided against this." That was all.

[@daltonthompson3083]

“We are in possession of the most powerful bomb known to man. If you are in any doubt, make inquiry to the events of hiroshima.” - leaflets airdropped over japanese towns pre-nagasaki

[@kelpthing5209]

Must have been scary

[@kyleplatter8954]

Dalton Thompson “lol, they brought a single bomber!” -some Japanese guy, Hiroshima (probably)

[@23tovarm5]

@@kyleplatter8954 oh sh- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[@Nothing-1w3]

Wait is it geting brig- *immediately gets burned*

[@jasonhenry8067]

Kyle Platter “Shit, they sent only ONE bomber!” - some other Japanese guy, probably.

[@spartandud3]

Just imagine being that pilot sent to investigate. After a while you see a peculiar shaped cloud far off into the distance where you're supposed to go. But as yet get closer it begins to dawn on you that it's the aftermath of a bomb of a magnitude you have never even thought possible and the city you're meant to investigate has been destroyed.

[@SonnyBubba]

It’s impossible for us to imagine a world where atomic bombs don’t exist. It’s even more impossible to imagine the shock and horror of that pilot who just saw the impossible.

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

cloud of AMEIRCAN MIGHT

[@IceSpoon]

And all of your instruments are starting going off because the radiation is increasing rapidly.

[@hexticblue]

I love how Admiral Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur is differentiated with the latter having a corn cob pipe

[@Yora21]

I always love how many world leaders I would probably recognize without being told their name, just from knowing what topic the episode is about.

[@ericlanglois9194]

Nimitz was an Admiral, not a General >.>

[@nobodyuknow2490]

@@ericlanglois9194 He was generally admirable? ^_^

[@awesomemcawesomeshorts9531]

Gen. MacArthur was a real one

[@yeahyeahyeah4488]

I believe he also had a button nose and two eyes made out of coal.

[@patchworkfellow]

Tsutomo Yamaguchi must’ve been like _“These gosh-dang Americans have it in for me”_ after Nagasaki...

[@Toni29360]

Ew gacha

[@patchworkfellow]

dat doggo no offence meant, but can you please reply something _relevant,_ instead of insulting my profile-picture?

[@aliensinnoh1]

The bombings of the cities were just a cover for the true American objective: killing Tsutomo Yamaguchi. That was the true objective of the entire war.

[@Toni29360]

@@patchworkfellow literally looks like shit and it's hella cringy

[@miker.9138]

What if both bombings were actually just targeting him? Heh.

[@makichandes]

I grew up in a small town just outside of Hiroshima. My grandmother was saved because she was on holiday at a cousin's house on an island off the coast. She remembers seeing the light from the bomb and wondering what it was. So grateful that she wasn't home when the bomb fell. She was so young. For me it was very hard growing up there as a half Japanese. Even now there is still lots of sadness and pain but things are getting better. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know any older generations of Japanese. Good video. Glad you didn't make it humorous. Thank you

[@skeletonjanitor]

@UpSideДown Most eastern Asian countries got over it, I’m just Nanjing got over it too.

[@uzodinmankili9682]

Get over it, your nation did far worse

[@Copycat217]

Dont cry bro US people gets cringe too from two buildings falling apart 😂😂😂

[@itzimperiumxvi2620]

@@Copycat217 by people they trained to fight someone else. Weird how the world works sometimes

[@jancyraniak4739]

@@scarzi6154 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not bombed before the nuke, they were spared to be targets for the nuke.

[@Danandria]

1:00 "Seems Nukey" History Matters, the best channel for finding a way to put humor with something horrible.

[@FlagAnthem]

Green humour is best

[@rwboa22]

Or when they are about to die, they would say, "Later Nerds."

[@hongxiuquan69]

@@FlagAnthem Hey, look who it is!

[@Twinrehz]

What about the "Chalkboard for days"? Had me laughing at the most horrible part xD

[@Senzawa69]

never heard dark humour?

[@thetooginator153]

As a boy in the sixties, one of the first “grown up” books I read was “Hiroshima” by John Hersey. It was pretty terrifying, but I recommend it to everyone. Hiroshima was almost as recent then as 9/11 is now, so it felt pretty recent. It was pretty frightening to know that a person had been vaporized, and only his shadow remained. I believe that the book “Hiroshima” made the world take nuclear weapons more seriously, and may have saved the world from nuclear war - so far.

[@edgarratsep3631]

I am very sorry for sounding rude but the bombing of Japanese cities did jack shit to make people realise how powerful nuclear weapons were(they knew it prior to nuking Japan). The bombing took place to show off the force of those bombs. There was even a plan to annihilate Russia in 1945 but the soviet military presence in Europe made the USA's and UK's question such action. In 1949 Russia created their own nuclear weapon which helped the world maintain relative peace. Mutual annihilation guarantees peace.

[@naxergss2625]

ah yes 9/11 is comparable to Hiroshima true

[@thetooginator153]

Andrew Mitchell - That is exactly what I meant. Thanks.

[@Tushii]

I remember we had a chapter regarding that book. It had the exact same line (in my native language) a person vaporised and only the shadow remained in a rock

[@thisnicklldo]

Me too. Old style Penguin with the grey and white colour bands. I think my uncle had bought it and left it at our house, I guess I read it in about 1965 at the age of 12. We had not long been through the Cuba crisis and I distinctly remember in 1961 looking up at contrails wondering if this was it. When I then read Hershey's book it had a permanent effect on my opinions - one of the most sobering things I have ever read. Appalling business. I too have carried with me for 50+ years the picture of an image of a man burnt permanently into concrete.

[@77777Spooky]

I appreciate how they toned down the humor a bit for this one.

[@johnmccnj]

Not one Death Thump for the entire video.

[@EliAs-ub6yf]

"Seems nukey"

[@Crosshair84]

but Chalkboards for days...

[@jeandeauxconvair601]

@@johnmccnj no one died they just went to forever sleep

[@reffa2858]

Tone down!? Did we watch the same video. The hidden humorisism are everywhere in this video.

[@triumphantking8549]

If someone wants to know why we see a Catholic priest multiple times in the video, it’s because the South of Japan was where a lot of Christian communities were formed and survived through the centuries, even during the 2 and a half century of Japanese ban on Catholicism. When this period ended, Catholic missionaries came back to the country and built a lot of schools and hospitals. In fact, Nagasaki was founded and developed by Catholic Portuguese priests and traders in the middle of the 16th Century and the city had about 200000 Catholics in 1945.

[@xjdjaws]

The more you know.

[@reset123451]

There is a film by Martin Scorsese that tells about the first Portuguese priests in Japan "silence"

[@joshuakevinserdan9331]

didn't know this, thanks!

[@Nirkhuz]

And don't forget that Pedro Arrupe, one spanish jesuit (and doctor) working in the outskirts of Hiroshima survived the bombing and made an campaign hospital in the jesuit novitiate in the aftermath of the bombing.

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

Also, the most common type of Catholic priests present in Japan were the Jesuits, which is why you see them so often in Anime and Manga.

[@kaisreece6491]

The thing about the military garrison stopping reporting in and the recon plane heading there only to see the mushroom cloud 100 miles away makes me shudder

[@bificommander]

"Chalkboards for days" Well, all primary necessities taken care of.

[@blackout6772]

Suggestion: destruction and rebuilding of Warsaw. City was literally razed to a ground( 90%) and was later rebuild using pictures and paintings.

[@gezzarandom]

What happened to that city was like the atomic bomb but without the massive explosion.

[@fammader96]

Ephabouyed the Masked Reviewer It was many many explosions!

[@gezzarandom]

Fam Mader I said without the massive explosion, I didn’t say no explosions.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Manila: AM i a joke to you?!

[@1TopGunPaintballer]

I heard how the US fire bombed German cities and the fire was so bad that it created a fire tornado.

[@Patmanduu]

I shouldn’t laugh, but that look Yamaguchi is giving McArthur at 1:33 is priceless. Like, “see me after class...”

[@shinjisakuwafemaleshingodz6122]

True

[@Snoflakes_1]

"Really dude? It's like you're after me or something"

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

I greatly appreciate the humor of these. People can say it's bad taste all they like, but this is heavy stuff and it needs a bit of levity.

[@pauld6967]

The man moving from one target city to another reminds me of the man who moved from Manassas, Virginia to avoid the Civil War after the first land battle and went to Appomattox, Virginia where, a few years later, General Lee surrendered, effectively ending the Civil War.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Wilmer Mclean, Lee and Grant met *in his house.*

[@pauld6967]

@@odysseusrex5908 Yes, for the surrender at Appomattox, VA. Fate said "oh no buddy, you don't get to escape being a historical figure. You saw the first engagement in Virginia, so now you get to witness the end." Yes there was still some fighting afterwards but for all intents and purposes, Appomattox was the end of the Civil War.

[@Mr110074]

I remember the Ken Burns docuseries on the Civil War began telling his story.

[@parthbonde2106]

haha yes..it was also in oversimplified's video about the civil war.

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

yeaahh XD there was this man who continously move away from the war but war came close to him and at last general lee and grand met at his house

[@vazeyo]

Now make a video called Nagasaki: After the Bomb. Because... Obviously.

[@logical5473]

@Michael Benedict no it wouldn’t this is Hiroshima and that’s Nagasaki

[@alanpennie8013]

@@logical5473 The Nagasaki bomb exploded right next to the cathedral, wiping out the large congregation who were hearing mass at the time.

[@xiaoka]

Don’t worry he already made it. The sign in the video says Nagasaki, not Hiroshima.

[@whyamialive5842]

My great-grandpa was in the navy from 1943-1945. He passed by Hiroshima shortly after the bomb on a ship. He described it as “Desolate”.

[@jeremytheoneofdestiny8691]

Your great grandpa was a true wordsmith.

[@mazkas1476]

I am a simple man. I see History Matters, I watch.

[@minecesar0879]

Same

[@georgeamesfort3408]

*Good stuff ,yo*

[@mrrandom1265]

Me too but this one was not that good.

[@notquiteatory971]

There is a question on political compass which says “are people naturally unlucky?” I justify “yes” with yamagoochi

[@liem11]

Considering he survived both bombings with his family intact and suffered no long term consequences I would say he was extremely lucky.

[@ayoa1173]

@@liem11 he had cancer twice in his life.

[@MephLeo]

@@ayoa1173 Which implies he survived cancer at least once. Though bastard as well.

[@ianbryant3037]

*yamaguchi

[@flynntom8057]

@@ianbryant3037 yummygucci**

[@mshotz1]

During the War, the 20th Air Force would organize 'Recon/weather" patrols with B-29's modified with Bomb-bay mounted Recon Cameras and carrying weather experts. They would fly in threes for mutual protection. The Japanese soon learned to ignore any incoming B-29's that were just three planes. After the initial air raid warning, and "all clear was" broadcast. The Army saw 3 bombers approaching. Little Boy was released almost at the exact time the "all Clear" was giving.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

It's pretty fucking horrible to go for "maximum carnage".

[@henrygustavekrausse7459]

​@@IudiciumInfernalum You expect them to send a fleet of extra planes for no reason?

[@solinvictus1214]

James Bizzanett kick-started the Japanese economy

[@fret1]

And was also behind the Marshall plan

[@anicrowsenjixd8918]

Lmaoooo

[@lolailo2199]

Actually that was Kelly Moneymaker

[@camacaron06]

Lolailo it was both of there

[@heisselnicholaspramoedya8121]

Can you tell me how?

[@cursedex3755]

How to get likes on History Matters comment section: > *Insert comment about James Bizzanet* >People see it >??? >Profit

[@monarchistemu6054]

Lol. Nice South Park reference.

[@Ake-TL]

Likes of this commentary were sponsored by James Bizzanet

[@antoniocamacho4412]

Probably the only youtuber who's fans care about the names at the end of the video

[@JBTriple8]

you guys need to stop it

[@moshedajan2338]

James Bizzanet is the most hated man on this channel

[@johnjiang487]

Oversimplified: goofy characters The Front: actual history History matters: waving signs

[@makiskotsampasis3223]

History matters: james bissonette

[@Sumschmuck]

KZbin History teachers in a nutshell oversimplified: uses comedy and silly characters The Front: teaches you the serious aspects of history and occasionally talks about star wars History Matters: uses signs and small pictures to help create understanding Simple History: uses detailed images to teach Sam O Nella: curses at the students and disappears for over a year Sabaton: burns the textbooks and just headbangs the knowledge into you

[@sron-adharcach950]

I got a vid idea: Why did Turkey switch to the Latin alphabet?

[@Yora21]

Simple answer, but perfect for a 3 minute video.

[@spartanx9293]

3 words Mustafa kemal attaturk

[@toggafamai4224]

There were already discussions of a new alphabet system because the Arabic alphabet had problems codifying the palace language (Ottoman Turkish) and wasn't really formalized to fit the standard rural Turkish before Atatürk too. Details of the inconsistency would be better explained by a linguist, but it was heavily discussed that the alphabet didn't fit the language. There were several attempts at promoting the Latin alphabet during the 1910s. Enver Paşa even invented a brand new writing system based on the Arabic alphabet called Huruf-u Munfasıla and tried to get the army to adopt it, but it fell out of favor quickly due to its impracticality. There were alternatives to the Latin alphabet like adapting the Arabic alphabet, adopting an old Turkic alphabet or creating a new one but these proposals were rejected because Atatürk envisioned a Western oriented Turkey, and adopting the Latin alphabet emphasized that goal. Literacy rates in the late Ottoman empire were really low, estimated between 6-10% before the revolution and most of the literate population were the educated elite, state bureaucrats and officers in the army. A very large percentage of those were already literate in French and/or German due to Westernization efforts of the late Ottoman administrations, therefore familiar with the Latin alphabet. Some discussions about it make it seem like a huge reform that shook the foundations of the culture, but in reality it was relatively easy to adopt and massively successful too, as indicated in literacy boom of the young republic between 1923-1938.

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

@@toggafamai4224 what's so grait destroying 600 years of you history sure ataturk saved your contry but he was to delusional to westerns if he read a little history in the 16 century when everone was traying to copy sulaiman l laws and how all the west tried to copy the ottoman literature

[@hazemdarwish8089]

A bit of a dump decision

[@mackys774]

Do a video called ‘’What if James Bizonette didn’t support the channel?’’

[@Mahesha2310]

Economy Downturn , Yo

[@adventurenlifelive4031]

History will still matter

[@LordJaric]

I'm seeing this name all over the comment section but it isn't ringing a bell to me.

[@LordJaric]

@Kiaser Jerry and what is special about this one supporter over the others?

[@CraigTheCriminal]

This channel won’t have any economic downturn as they got Kelly Moneymaker

[@STDMT]

History Matters: *makes an interesting video based on comprehensive research* The comments: J A M E S B I Z O N N E T T E

[@mland2012]

Which begs the obvious question: Why?

[@bootdude7527]

If you Google Tsutomu Yamaguchi his expression isnt sad, or traumatic (given the man survived two atomic bombs) It's more of an "yeah I've been through the shit"

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

he is living with the fact that americans are loco

[@pota2531]

When Hiroshima survivor moves to Nagasaki “well it looked like a big rain drop kinda like that thing in the sky” 💥

[@glennchartrand5411]

The Hiroshima was 15 kilotons....Nagasaki was 21 Kilotons So Hiroshima was just warming him up for Nagasaki.

[@pg3384]

My old chemistry class in high school read some book called "Hiroshima" I think, a collection of stories about some survivors from the bombing of Hiroshima. The descriptions of some people were so insanely gruesome.

[@ChrisPBacon9]

The one where someone tried to lend a hand and their skin came off like a glove was the one that always got me 😬

[@jhmcd2]

There is another reason why the relief efforts were scarce. One thing that isn't well known is that, other bombings in Japan had actually had far higher casualty counts and were far more destructive. Initially Japan thought this bombing was similar to the one conducted on Tokyo just a few months prior.

[@TheGentlemanGamer]

It's my dream for the $10 Patreon tier to open up again just so I can back as Bames Jizzonette.

[@jamesbissonette8002]

I should change my name to that

[@mickey4125]

@@jamesbissonette8002 I found him! Finally!

[@jmjedi923]

@@mickey4125 holy shit I'll get my camera

[@TrialByDance]

"8:15 in the morning and the population of Hiroshima...was dead." *thud*

[@chalaars2939]

@cycl0ps__ no not really

[@timberthus2562]

Except he’s not quoting, because this wasn’t said in the video.

[@daljan1101]

@cycl0ps__Did you just start using the internet?

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

​@cycl0ps__ Would you care to point out when in the video this quote is from

[@melonschooleducationandlea4653]

@cycl0ps__ Welcome to KZbin Comments! This is where 55% of comments are quotes. (don't quote me on that) (how ironic)

[@alexandermathieson4774]

the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima , as tragically horrific as they were , probably saved millions of lives, without the direct witness to the aftermath , the world may have been pushed into war on october 16 1962, after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@christopherclark9569]

lol m8 killing innocent civilians rather than brutal japanese army 🥴 and aftermath could've been shown through nuclear tests

[@alexandermathieson4774]

@@christopherclark9569 it almost took 3 to end Japans war, they had a " last man standing " policy . and humans arnt the smartest of creatures , bombing desert isn't as big an example as the 3 generations of birth defects in those 2 regions .

[@christopherclark9569]

@@alexandermathieson4774 well last man standing policy is justified for a small country like Japan even nazis had a similar policy like that but surrendered after , and this might have eased the Cuban missile crisis but brought more shit to world like arms race , Vietnam Korean wars and Islamic radicalisation(blowback of 🇺🇸) U could still win a war without bombing ,Well china is going to be more dominant than 🇺🇸 in few years🥲

[@alexandermathieson4774]

@@christopherclark9569 China is counting on western apathy , greed and stupidity. the arms race was going 1000 years before we split the atom , and Islamic radicalization ? that started just after the 1st rightly guided khalifa. in 632, that's got zip to do with us. khrushchev wouldn't have back down if he hadn't seen the nuclear horror.

[@dumigamez397]

Innocent civilians that would have fought with sticks.

[@thoughtportal123]

Today's Atomic boms are way more powerful and scarier

[@peterg76yt]

A modern fusion bomb uses an atomic bomb as its detonator.

[@garybrown2039]

Unfortunately that’s very true. To put it in perspective, my history teacher told me that if one modern bomb was dropped in New York City parts of NJ and Delaware would be dying from atomic fire if they didn’t die from the initial blast. Meanwhile those in the middle and southeastern states would likely get cancer from the radioactive dust .

[@planetkc]

Correction *Nuclear and *Hydrogen

[@hothoploink1509]

@@garybrown2039 There is a common misconception there: While radiation should not be ignored and is pretty horrible, it is nowhere near as bad as media often represents it. Yes, many people die directly from radiation sickness in the vicinity of the explosion (those that survive the other effects), it's not actually that much and further away it's effects are at most a slight increase in cancer rates. I mean the biggest bomb ever detonated, the tsar bomba (roughly 50 times the power of the most powerful bombs currently deployed by the nuclear powers) was detonated over northern russia, and there is no evidence of radiation sickness and while there was a slight increase in cancer rated it was only in the far north, it didn't spread to cover the eurasian landmass. Any modern bomb that can be carried by missiles that detonates in NYC would have no effect on states outside new england and even there a lot more limited than people usually believe.

[@doctorthee]

@@peterg76yt You make it sound strange. It's just a combinations of fission and fusion in stages, still going all off in seconds. Even older bombs were fusionbombs/thermonuclear, just like the Tsar bomba.

[@shoopiesty805]

Tsutomi: *Hears and witnesses massive explosion, gets burned from it and moves somewhere else* Tsutomi: *hears same explosion again* Tsutomi: “Are you fucking kidding me”

[@filmart430]

Legend has it that after leaving Hiroshima then Nagasaki, he built a small cabin on top of Mt. Saint Helen in January 1980.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

We read a very sad story when we learned about Hiroshima called Shin's Tricycle, a story about a toddler and his tricycle. I admit, I cried a bit while reading it. He was still holding onto the handlebars when the bomb was detonated

[@KuK137]

What is sad is the fact they made 5876904 sad stories about bombing but zero about their war crimes and to this day deny they happened...

[@MithrandirFreak]

@@KuK137 That's not true...?

[@anubhavghosh4556]

@@KuK137 most people don't deny it, the govt does

[@ZackMarrs556NAT0]

@Tiberiu Farcas they were unfortunately necessary. Japan intended to fight to the death, Japan knew it, the US knew it. Considering Japanese conduct on invaded home islands, it's safe to say that if you didn't take your own life, you'd be forced to partake in a mass human wave attack against US landing forces armed with nothing but sticks. Which was an actual plan the Japanese had BTW. We knew the fight would be so bad that in preparation, we made so much .50BMG ammo and M2 HMG's the military is still using left over supplies to this day. And as of a few years ago, the gov't is still giving purple hearts that were minted in preparation for the invasion. Idiots like you astound me. So sorry you didn't get to see millions upon millions of not only soldiers/marines die, but also civilians.

[@batuhanbayer5058]

@@ZackMarrs556NAT0 A man fights to the death, a soldier kills a soldier this is what war ethics say, if you drop a nuclear warhead to the heart of a industrial city filled with kids babies and civilians then I'm sory but even if you win easily that makes Americans equal to imperal japanese in my eyes as ethics go. There's literally nothing left for Americans to say about japanese cause at the moment that bomb ignited above hiroshima they became equally brutal and unetichal.

[@Fox2-Videos]

1:13 the building in the top right is called the Hiroshima Bomb Dome. I have visited it before, and although it symbolizes a nuke-ing, it is generally peaceful.

[@remhawk73]

“Since that building no longer existed.”

[@LadyCooper]

I went to Hiroshima last year and it was it was interesting to see what the city is apart from the bomb. Folks there are absolutely insanely passionate about their local baseball team, the Hiroshima Carp.

[@addyred1861]

They named the team....carp🙃

[@Ihaveagasmask]

Man imagine a fucking nuke being less popular that a local baseball team

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

what u see aint always the reality

[@mattdavis9601]

The Carp are owned by Mazda, the car company. (Mazda is Toyo Kogyo, IIRC)

[@davidstout6051]

My mother saw the ruins of Hiroshima shortly after the war while working for the Canadian Embassy. She said it was the most horrible scene she had ever seen.

[@LowLiving]

Imagine that... surviving 2 nukes... dude I'd be steaming

[@unscenegamers]

He was steaming too, radiation does that to people.

[@stephank9172]

Its great to be hearing about those specific topics you don’t learn about in history class

[@devinrr]

The pilot's face at 0:43 gets me every time

[@Patrick_3751]

Video ideas for other notable destroyed cities from WW2: Nagasaki Dresden Stalingrad Nanjing Warsaw Tokyo

[@twanlenaerts1512]

Don't forget Rotterdam

[@HipFire1]

DJ Harris whirlwind tour was wild

[@MrAkurvaeletbe]

Berlin hamburg cologne

[@gachalostitall979]

Manila. Pretty crazy stuff there too

[@brremsilverte.9022]

LEGO city

[@MC-CFC]

I feel like this channel reads my subconscious on the answers I want. Great content.

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

MInd : Do you think the eagle in the roman flag migrated to america with washington and became american ? Simple sistory uploads the same vid

[@matthewtrent2019]

Q- what we’re conditions like in the city after the bomb was dropped? A- What city?

[@Masada1911]

0:00 Japanese guy looks so dissapointed :-(

[@fattahrambe]

No shit

[@kelpthing5209]

Me too

[@flynn659]

@@fattahrambe Yes shit

[@pgsells]

I thought it was the ambassador who came to sign the treaty on board the Missouri.

[@zothanmawiapachuau]

"What's your assessment of the situation based on your expertise?" "Seems nukey...."

[@athapratama55]

USA: “We Nuked Japan” Japan: “Oh Really? I don’t believe you.”

[@jmjedi923]

"Oh yeah? Prove it with another one!"

[@ed6077]

The last thing I always hear when I’m done with these videos is James Bizzanett

[@MontyRL]

I love your videos man, keep it up. You make history fun. The animation, narration, voice, everything.

[@14thbattlegroupcommander]

STATUS: -no water -little food -loads of chalkboards

[@erikperik1671]

No after-credit scene this time?

[@densgwapo6123]

Yeah. James bizzonet gonna stop the economy of this channel if u stop the end credits scenes

[@johnmccnj]

I feel like a horrible person for laughing at Mr Yamaguchi's "Dude - WTF" expression towards General Macarthur at 1:32

[@arandomyoutubeaccount3166]

1:32 LOL, that angry face Yamaguchi makes towards MacArthur.

[@youthgamngpatnerz3300]

You meet me after class BOY

[@THECOMMUNISTCHANNEL]

Before: *BANZAI!* After: *SENPAI!* A bit more: *HENTAI!*

[@JonatasAdoM]

Now: WAIFAI!

[@biliminsrlar5752]

Anime is an effect of radiation the bombs caused.

[@FlagAnthem]

Do you guys know that Hokusai didn't just draw giant waves and Mount Fuji perspectives, don't you?

[@Tofu3435]

The most famous hentai was "dream of fisherman's wife" from 1814 ... and nowadays i can play China inferno on DLsite English. (and i hope the FBI would not nuke me for it)

[@colecummings2071]

Ebola guy:what have I done?!?

[@JosephSheu86]

Hi. Great video as always. Small error, whenever the animation showed the sign signalling Hiroshima in Kanji script, it actually says Nagasaki instead.

[@jeffreyli7421]

“If I had a coin for every time I survived an atomic bombing, I would have two coins. Which isn’t much but it’s strange that it happened twice”

[@MelonGearSolid]

I always found it strange that in history class (Scotland) we were never taught about the Japanese involvement in WW2 other than the two bombings. I can only speculate the reason for this is that what the Japanese did to China wasn't appropriate to be taught to teenage kids.

[@Nate-gj3jx]

The bombs weren’t appropriate too

[@tayler2396]

@@Nate-gj3jx What would your choice have been?

[@tayler2396]

@@peter3334floyd You don't seem to know much about history, peter3334floyd, but you do have opinions. Do you think ports weren't bombed prior to the use of atomic bombs? Lots of things were bombed including other cities with conventional bombs, which killed even more people over the course of the war. Also, Children Peter. Children? Did you know that the Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos and others also had children?

[@ra_alf9467]

I think because you're in Europe, sir. Here in Asia we were teached more about Japan than Germany during WW2

[@nickbell4984]

@@peter3334floyd the fact that it took not one but two atomic bombs and the complete flattering of Osaka and Tokyo to get the Japanese to surrender emphasizes how many more people would have died in the alternative decision of invading.

[@sid2112]

I would like to thank James Bizonett. Thanks, James.

[@inigochicano]

Yamaguchi literally won the worst lottery by getting nuked twice, then immediately winning the best lottery by surviving both bombings.

[@arandomyoutubeaccount3166]

I just noticed that someone is caught underneath some wreckage at 0:22, The bottom-right, by the way.

[@stevemc01]

Yamaguchi in Nagasaki watching the nurse point outside the window: "Aw s***. Here we go again..."

[@johnmanno2052]

If you read the excellent graphic novel "The Tale of Gen" written by a survivor of the bombing, you get an excellent, and horrifying, picture of what happened, and what it was like.

[@ALLMETAL1970]

That was later adapted into the movie "barefoot gen", which also got a sequel to it.

[@johnmanno2052]

@@ALLMETAL1970 OMG!!! I'll try to find that! Thank you!

[@ALLMETAL1970]

@@johnmanno2052 I've seen the first but not the 2nd first movie put me off watching the 2nd. Tell me how that one is if you get a chance to watch both.

[@johnmanno2052]

@@ALLMETAL1970 huh. The manga is awesome. I'm surprised that the movie wasn't

[@ALLMETAL1970]

@@johnmanno2052 no the movie was brilliant, I just mean because of how quite frankly horrific it was it's putting me off watching the sequel. I don't know if it'll be tamer or even more scary, I just don't want to be put through the type of hell the first one brought.

[@NexusApollo]

"Lol. That plane says Gay on it-"

[@zawarudo596]

**disintegrates**

[@yakutza3922]

@Stuart Aaron or father

[@sandhopper599]

Hee Hee - you said "gay"...........

[@seriouspain4136]

*dies*

[@RubberFacee]

Looks like they couldn't handle the neutron style

[@uglyteethbakeryandotherstr7333]

What happened to the little clips at the end? I liked that.

[@Violent2aShadow]

Afterwards, he said "Screw this! I'm moving to Chernobyl!"

[@GrandMsterPie]

One thing to note was that the only existing photos of Hiroshima immediately after the bomb were from Yoshito Matsuhige who took managed to develop just 4.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Many years later, Japan finally got their revenge on the Americans by inventing the greatest weapon the world has ever seen... ANIME

[@mrniceguy7168]

They tanked our birth rates by turning hordes of young men into permavirgins

[@athish-REAL]

@@mrniceguy7168 Actually A Plummeting Birth Is More Devastating Than An Atom Bomb

[@Croz89]

@@mrniceguy7168 Well that tactic seems to have worked better on their own people!

[@electricalcoconut979]

"Hey man why is there another sun?" a few seconds later and he died

[@leirumf5476]

I'll leave my little grain of sand here. There are two mangas by Fumiyo Kouno, one about life during wwII in Kouno (and how the bombings were felt there) where the character is from Hiroshima. And the other one is about a family from Hiroshima who survived the bombings but had to live through the aftermath of it and the problems that the nuke still posed to the survivors. I'd recommend them both if anyone is interested to know more.

[@captainaffection]

The signboard at 1:21 says "Nagasaki" NOT "Hiroshima"

[@TheOfficial007]

My sister heard a Japanese couple who came from overseas to talk about Hiroshima at her college. The women was just a child at the time hanging out with her dad as they were doing work in like a mini courtyard within the house. She said the destruction almost instantaneous. She was knocked over but was able to get up but her father was alive stuck under debris. He told her to leave and save herself but she would not leave him so he played a game with her which may be rock, paper, scissors if not something similar to it. He said that if he won she would to leave and if she won they would play again. Her opinion of the bombings were that they were obviously terrible but she understood why they took place. Sad story but a great reason to strive to stop problems before they reach those points.

[@LegoLiam1803]

Japan after the bomb: *WE’VE GOT TO HAVE...MONEY*

[@cmd31220]

That one dude has the best obituary headliner ever. "Only human to get nuked twice"

[@Whatamievingdoing]

“Seems nukey” -random weirdo who went there

[@Yora21]

"What does that even mean?" - everyone else there

[@gregbaranszky545]

Forget NORD VPN or RADE: SHADOW LEGENDS, the only sponsor I respect is *JAMES BIZONETTE*

[@jamesbissonette8002]

Thanks!

[@q.u.dssles]

This is conflicting for me as a citizen of a country that was invaded and occupied by japan. Stories told by my teachers and grandparents were horrible. And the joy from their voices when they tell the end of the war. The bomb did what it was intended to do, END The war. But what cost. Lives of to japanese cities vs the lives of various asian countries men, women and children they tortured and killed for the ambitions of an emperor. It is sad what happened but at that time there was no other choice.

[@stastu6484]

Yes and it also saved millions of lives by preventing the allied invasion of japan

[@AAAAAA-lx2cl]

When you act inhumanely to your fellow man, expect no limitation in your fellow man's response.

[@nutsbutdum]

Dude survived the bombing in Hiroshima AND Nagasaki...imagine the level of paranoia that guy lived with for the rest of his life! 😳

[@tabnox5592]

An important thing to be noted, easily somewhere between 5 and 10 times as many people died from the firebombing previous to either nuclear bomb. (I don't know the exact number).

[@TheAdmirableAdmiral]

pretty neat, but this video glosses over the fact that there was a literal coup attempt that detained the Japanese emperor and murdered a Japanese lt. general AFTER the bombings to try and stop the capitulation to the amiercans. there was a sizable group that wanted to keep fighting even after both atomic bombs

[@FullMetalBaldo]

- Finally the Japanese army is going to help us! The Japanese army : "We don't do that here"

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

There’s an iconic anime called Barefoot Gen that covers the bombing of Hiroshima and the aftermath. It’s truly a chilling and emotional film, the scene where the bomb drops is truly some of the most graphic scenes I’ve ever seen in anime.

[@ALLMETAL1970]

There's a sequel to that as well, plus it was based of a manga that was written by a survivor.

[@Hexigonic]

Japan talking to Iran:”Are you sure you want to do this? We destroyed a few boats....*THEN THEY DROPPED THE SUN ON US*

[@n-s-a7113]

Twice

[@liamjm9278]

Iran is allies with countries that can drop suns on the US.

[@jayman4569]

@@liamjm9278 the US is also allies with countries that can drop suns on Iran; what's your point.

[@liamjm9278]

@@jayman4569 Take a guess why it's a bad idea to go to war with a nuclear power?

[@jayman4569]

@@liamjm9278 exactly, the US has nukes. So based on what u just said, even tho Iran has allies that could drop nukes on the US, they would also get nuked in retaliation by the US because they are a nuclear power.

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

“Chalkboards for days” induced a hysterical chuckle storm in my body