The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Animated

[@TheOperationsRoom]

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[@JoeMama-eg8hr]

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[@Benjamin-fu8eq]

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[@Rick-Rarick]

Thank you for all your hard work and amazing content!

[@toobeast673]

There was a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi who was in Hiroshima for a business trip when the first atomic bomb went off. He suffered ruptured eardrums, temporary blindness, and serious radiation burns. After treatment he went to return home……..to Nagasaki. As he was describing the explosion at Hiroshima to his boss an atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki. He survived the second explosion with no new injuries. He is the only person recognized by Japan to have survived both explosions. A record that may last till the end of time

[@MM22966]

Geez, let's hope so.

[@onlyxans6920]

that’s hella dope. appreciate that fact. crazy luck and a crazy coincidence to go from one bombed city to another when there was all that land to just stop or if he waited another day

[@Milkyshake117]

Bruh moment

[@johnlee1200]

I believe this story was told in a Radiolab Podcast. There are more details to his story, including when him and his wife was deciding on having children.

[@wurfyy]

Nonsense, nearly everyone in Japan survived both explosions, most of them by just not being anywhere near either of them.

[@jajefan123456789]

The deep "pop" and blinding white light at 9:57 coinciding with the abrupt cutoff of narration... all I can say is it gave me chills. Well done on another astonishingly good video.

[@tianrongchen6916]

Same here

[@SgtMjr]

Very well done.

[@jack1701e]

Yeah, very good detail!

[@JeepWranglerIslander]

Bit of a flair for the dramatic.

[@user-gi9se3mo1d]

@@JeepWranglerIslander There is nothing drama-less about nuclear weapons

[@marathgaming7153]

The pause, the silence, the brightness. Truly the best history channel out there. Well done.

[@theussmirage]

Meanwhile, on the 'History Channel': Are the Egyptian pyramids secretly alien Nazi spaceships? Followed by three hours of Pawn Stars reruns

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

Enola gay was really the plane's call sign and name ?

[@grantingria4324]

​@@creatorsfreedom6734duh

[@davidnemoseck9007]

Definitely one of the best.

[@RyanHenderson-l7f]

@@creatorsfreedom6734 It was named after the pilots mother

[@ricktow66lcc83]

"The Operations Room" is 1,000 times superior than the so-called "History Channel"! The cutoff of narration after the Hiroshima explosion terrified me. Great job in history-telling, sir!!!

[@Artix902]

So real, I thought the narrator died!!!!!

[@thisisgreentext2147]

👽👽

[@rufnek3124]

Agreed. imagine if japan did not surrender it will be a wasteland

[@TomFynn]

"What used to be about History channel" - Gravity Falls.

[@ytcensorhack1876]

I take it u aren't a fan of ancient aliens or pawn stars?

[@jackmcfann]

The carrying of the camera used to photograph the Hiroshima explosion was actually a very last second decision made by the crew of the Enola Gay. A war correspondent/photographer wanted to come aboard, but military security refused to allow him on. So instead, the photographer gave it to the tail gunner and quickly informed him on how to use the camera. Luckily, the tail gunner was able to properly understand and remember the very brief lesson he was given by the time they reached the target, and that is why we have these photographs today.

[@Taima]

Despite having seen the Nagasaki one many times, especially growing up in the 90s and early 00s for some reason, I had totally forgotten we had actual fucking footage of right after we hit them. It wasn't until seeing it again this time that I realized you can see the enormous shockwave already miles and miles away by the time the filming started.

[@et4920]

Point, click, zoom - it's not that hard, man.

[@tony9146]

@@et4920maybe with modern basic digital cameras. This was done with film and if you knew anything about cameras you’d know that without the camera being setup properly the photographer could easily have overexposed and ruined the shot. Film cameras are particularly sensitive to light and require proper film ISO, camera aperture, and shutter speed to be set, which was a lot harder to do on cameras back then.

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

​@@et4920Silence child.

[@amistrophy]

@@et4920 🤡🤓

[@tayzonday]

The United States had satisfactory air superiority and conventional bombing capability beyond the yield of either atomic bomb. Indeed, the conventional bombing of Tokyo inflicted more casualties than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. A lot of the historical question hinges on whether the atomic bombs (including new types of radiation casualties) yielded psychological outcomes that led to surrender- as well as a symbolic geopolitical outcome in the Cold War.

[@will19125]

I heard that the bomber crews referred to their missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki as "chocolate rain"

[@thecauldron2212]

Legend of KZbin!

[@TheGreatLlamaJockey]

Chocolate rain > bombing raids

[@darkironsides]

I did not expect to see a legend today.

[@11kungfu11]

No its very easy to verify that Japan wanted to officially surrender weeks prior to the bombing. The US refused until they used it. It was a nuclear "HoLoCaUsT" to the definition of the word, especially when you know who rules over the USA.

[@edwelndiobel1567]

The bomb only turned 2.2 grams of mass into energy to obliterate a city. Also a man read the leaflet and took his family to the hills prior to the bombing despite his family begging him not to leave the city. He saved all their lives except his parents who refused to leave.

[@fuzzblightyear145]

I think it was a lot less than even that, maybe just half a gram. still, scary amount of energy from E=mc2

[@limegrass]

You guys are both wrong. A quick Google search shows Little Boy had 64kg of uranium and Fat Man had 6.4kg of plutonium. That's just the fission core, the explosives around it are much bigger too. If it only took such tiny amounts to build an atomic bomb, every terrorist organization in the world would smuggle uranium to build one for themselves. The difficulty of obtaining critical mass amounts of radioactive isotopes is the main obstacle that prevents most countries from being able to build one.

[@boedude8496]

little boy had 64kg of uranium, of which only about 1kg actually went critical. the same amount fissioned in fat man

[@limegrass]

@@boedude8496 1kg is far far greater than 2.2 grams and my point still stands

[@boedude8496]

@@limegrass umm... yes, 1kg is 1,000 grams. and that is the weight of uranium (and plutonium) that went critical, not 2.2 grams. don't know where you got that number from

[@PaulFL201]

9:55 truly terrified me! I was so engrossed in your movie. Then the silence as you stopped talking. You sir, need to be movie director. I'm so moved, I felt like I was there! Masterful work! I could feel the heat and shockwave! I have never been this moved in any movie theater. I Sincerely thank you. Paul

[@bigdawg77]

Literally gave me goosebumps. Absolutely sobering.

[@ToddBrooks-o5m]

Well Pauly how terrified do you think you would have been as a 18year old Marine in the first wave of landing craft if we had to invade the Japanese mainland ?

[@Pillar_of_Salt]

@@ToddBrooks-o5m About as terrified as a skinned horse I'd say, more or less.

[@charlessaint7926]

My Japanese grandmother served with the Japanese Red Cross during the war. Surprisingly, she was open about her experiences. How she witnessed the Doolittle Raid in Tokyo. Was sent to Singapore in 1943 and stayed there until 1946 when she was repatriated. She went back to being a nurse tending to American soldiers. That's how she met my Grandfather. He was a US Army soldier in the hospital recovering from a hangover. Grandma's family lived in Saijo. They saw the mushroom cloud from Hiroshima.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

Thanks for sharing this fascinating achievement. 😊

[@XJevoX]

what a story ❤

[@rapatacush3]

Must had been a hell of a hangover if he needed to be hospitalized.

[@benn454]

@@rapatacush3 Getting an IV from Doc.

[@MrBrennan118118]

I too have been this hungover

[@Khemtime]

It will never cease to amaze me how a channel with such simple animations consistently has me on the edge of my seat. That pause in the narration as Little Boy fell gave me chills. I’ll take Operations Room over most movies any day.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

You should've heard My computers 5.1 surround speakers boom - it was chilling , mate . Not joking

[@denarte6986]

Indeed. Historia Civilis is the same (but about ancient history). The visuals are even more downgraded but it’s more interesting than many modern movies.

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

But be careful. The channel is heavily "pro west". They like to discard anything the USSR and its allies have achieved on the Battlefield.

[@davemccombs]

That's pretty fucking weird/mid

[@randomguy9113]

I was listening to the video while I was driving my car, when the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki the bass in my car scared the crap out of me

[@Shax19]

God I love this channel. Unapologetically about history and just fantastic and tasteful coverage without any hard biases. Keep up the solid work guys!

[@kbanghart]

So sad how Trump supporters love to talk about killing civilians.

[@Weshopwizard]

Agreed. Their content is superb and the presentation is very straightforward.

[@teru797]

unbiased? Sounds racist!

[@Shax19]

@joshuagrahm3607 can you link it?

[@kommentator666]

@joshuagrahm3607 Yeah, it would have been nice if they had at least mentioned the different historical opinions on this one

[@chubbschubbs2x]

“Necessary Evil” is such a badass plane name for that specific mission

[@thispersoniseh]

and then theres B I G S T I N K

[@thepoetthatwasi1722]

You mean "Necessary Weasels".

[@SpazzMatticusTheGreat]

​@@thepoetthatwasi1722 You clearly lack understanding of the culture of WW2 Japan.

[@wadswwwwasdw]

The reason for the surrender was the Soviet Union's entry into the war against Japan. In the first place, it was clear that the purpose was human experimentation when two shots were dropped.

[@Cooltech06]

​@wadswwwwasdw Dude the Soviet Navy, especially their surface fleet, was a joke and Japan knew it. They barely had a landing craft, let alone enough to take over Japan. Japan surrendered 70% because of the bombs...

[@ariochiv]

The detonation animations are appropriately both somber and terrifying. Nicely done.

[@dailygrind1620]

yeah.. i was like.. Holy Sh..... that was....cant explain ... its like I was their.. looking above the clouds when it happen

[@seanocean]

My heart sinks at 9:58. I really was not prepared for this portrayal of a real end of a period of history that is a complete break between old world and new world philosophy. On one hand we have extreme nationalism that can change history. On the other hand we have a weapon that can mankind. So many little debates. What is worse, brainwashed imperialism with thousands tortured and killed or living in a world where any war will be the end of civilization? Younger generations will not have lived through such an intense period of the Cold War, but.. it’s strange that imperialism and fascism still rages in the face of impending and fatalistic nuclear war in 2023. Honestly I was not ever expecting conventional war to even be a possibility after 1945. But here we are.

[@ariochiv]

@@seanocean Well, I think the darker side of human nature isn't something generated by history, but is rather something that we will always have to struggle against. Unless we can evolve beyond being instinct-driven primates, which may not even be something that's possible.

[@Taima]

@@seanocean That second to last sentence of yours is amusing. Did you skip history from 1945 till the 2000s? Not even a decade later, the U.S., of all countries, with the almighty bomb, was at war in Korea. The Soviets had already stolen our secrets and started on their own, but still. America even very nearly nuked Korea, and sometimes I'm surprised we didn't do so to Vietnam considering the extreme amount of munitions and defoliant we used.

[@Captain_Coleslaw]

I genuinly got a lump in my throat when the animation went off and the tinitus went in. Wild

[@rhylieshifflett7114]

This is one of the best telling of the bombings I’ve heard, just facts about the event, and why it happened. No justification no pointing fingers, just a plain telling of the story in a respectful manner. The first bombing scene was wonderful, keep up the good work

[@navyseal1689]

I love that they are not biased

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Any discussion of the results of any of these events are highly politically charged. Any and every small remark, from the number of people killed, to the exact reasoning used by various people, does contain an enormous amount of bias that everyone has to navigate. This event is significantly more controversial than anything else that happened during the rest of the 20th century. It was at the time too.

[@2200Stinger]

⁠@@dashiellgillingham4579 Facts regarding the event are not “politically charged” inherently. And the statistics regarding the death and destruction aren’t either. Your reaction to them might be.

[@cameronleach5902]

@@ToyotaGuy1971Way to miss the point entirely. Congrats.

[@CommercialSwine]

​@@ToyotaGuy1971 "Should've drop a couple more" -My SE Asian great grandmother

[@dapanda2068]

Man I love how you used audio with this one. The silence after the bomb as dropped only being interrupted by ticking and your voice. Then showing just how powerful the nuke was by cutting narration followed by the ringing. Awesome just awesome!

[@Sectarian.]

According to official legend, there were NO tests of uranium bomb, which was said to blow up Hiroshima. Just imagine, some science-fiction guys tell you that they think that uranium can detonate if you put together some 84 kg of enriched uranium. You spend several years and who knows how many billions to enrich that uranium and you make a bomb, and drop it in Japan without any test. How do you know if chain reaction is possible at all? How are you sure that you need exactly 84 kg for that? How you know the level of enrichment? Today you could tell the world that you use a super computer to simulate everything, that you dont need real tests, and people will believe. But in 1945 they didnt have supercomputer, oops. So thats bullshit. If it were real, there would be dozens failed tests before they could make a working bomb

[@LITTLE1994]

The scary thing about those two atomic bombs is, infamous as they are in war history, Little Boy/Fat Man are quite weak compared to the bombs that of course came later and by today's standards. Imagine the same thing nowadays. Beautiful video, too.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

I hope all we can do is imagine, and not see it in reality, ever.

[@prw56]

@@WouldntULikeToKnow. The longer we live in a world looming on the edge of nuclear destruction, the more comfortable we get with it. The more comfortable we get with it, the more likely someone decides to play chicken with MAD. Unbelievable luck has carried us through till now, but after iran and especially north korea were allowed to possess them... Sometime in our lifetimes someone is going to risk it. I think its going to be in a terrorist attack rather than a super power.

[@americankid7782]

What’s also terrifying to think about is how inefficient the bombs were compared to future nukes. Hiroshima was destroyed by a mass of uranium that weighs roughly the same as a Butterfly that turned to energy.

[@JABoyle3875]

It is my firm belief that bombs dropped in 1945 have saved billions upon billions of lives. Not so much in ending the war when they did - but by showing how terrible the destruction is, and likely preventing the use of other bombs. I honestly think the Cold War would have gone hot and nuclear without these bombs being used.

[@armandoventura9043]

​@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Most likely we won't see it, viruses and propaganda have been more elegant in that regard

[@neuro.weaver]

One of THE BEST animations EVER. Interrupting the narrative with the bombings was brilliant!

[@Rationalific]

Literally and figuratively brilliant.

[@ohnonomorenames]

To play Neil deGrasse Tyson for a minute. The mushroom cloud shadows were show on the wrong side for the time of day. The bombs were dropped in the morning so the shadow should be on the west not the eastern side of the mushroom cloud. Let this be a lesson to all animators that no matter how good your work is there will always be a pedant with an astronomical bent that will find even the smallest error.

[@hannahsminecraftchannel6133]

Totally

[@jamess.1006]

​@@ohnonomorenamesbore off nerd 🤓🤓🤓

[@CassidyListon]

Agreed. Definitely was not expecting a jump scare in my dry, clinical narration of historical events.

[@SCIFIguy64]

My grandmother worked in a Boeing factory for most the war. In 1945 she has to sign a bunch of papers for secrecy before being tasked with installing a modified bomb bay hinge. We don’t know if it was on the Enola Gay or just some other aircraft, but we know she worked in the same plant it came from and it was just the bomb bay door that was drastically different. Nothing as interesting as being related to anyone directly working in the Manhattan project, but some fun tidbits of history. Grandpa was an infantry man in Okinawa, but he had no stories to tell, or at least wanted to tell.

[@bananian]

That's actually fascinating

[@stevepowell6503]

My grandpa was a Bosun on a landing craft at Okinawa. He could have been on the boat that put your grandfather ashore. He never talked about the war except once when I told him I had joined the Army. I got the feeling he felt like a coward because he just landed people rather than fighting on the island. He said, "I always wondered how many of the boys I dropped off were killed."

[@SCIFIguy64]

@@stevepowell6503 he oughta think how many countervalue folks were saved by his efforts. If we didn’t fight Japan, innocents would have continued to be tortured.

[@stevepowell6503]

@@SCIFIguy64 Yeah, definitely. That generation was pretty hard on itself, though. Hell, have you watched Band of Brothers? Most of the men in the interview segments make it clear that they considered the OTHER guys in the unit as heroes, but not themselves.

[@senorspahrtan]

Did she happen to work in Omaha, Nebraska? That’s where the Silverplate B-29s were made, by the Glenn Martin Aircraft Company at Offutt Field.

[@irideblind]

That transition at 9:57 was unexplainable caught me off guard. What a great choice. Ive watched it like 10 times already.

[@joshuarecta3797]

props to production, new emotions were created after that

[@barbaralee9845]

The moment everything changed forever foreword. No words is the perfect choice.

[@duckduckov4362]

50 seconds not 43

[@kovacks2280]

At the WWII Museum in New Orleans they do a similar production on a 4D scale... it's so incredible when the bomb goes off... bright light the chairs vibrate the base hits the wind blows it's pretty intense

[@theself7139]

They edited as if the explosion stopped the narrator speech. Such details.

[@442dudeathefront]

My grandfather was a Hiroshima survivor. He was drafted last year of the war and stationed there. His unit was in the middle of roll call when the bomb blew up. Lots of other guys in his unit got horrible burns but he managed to survive unscathed and had to assist in the clean up. He never blamed the US for the bomb and thought it was justified. He ended up moving his family to the US in the 60s and became a citizen.

[@icantthinkofaname4265]

What a wild takeaway after being nuked!

[@gruntforever7437]

@@icantthinkofaname4265 Yeah the current liberal narrative about how it was a war crime and unnecessary does not look too good when you read that.

[@442dudeathefront]

@@deathblazer0 1st thing I’m not Jewish… 2nd thing I find antisemitism/racism to be disgusting… I could go on and on how I find racism as a whole disgusting and something only someone with an IQ in the negatives could possibly believe… don’t even think about saying something as dumb as “only a Jew would say that.” Because that’s literally something only a person with the maturity of a 3rd grader would say.

[@442dudeathefront]

@@icantthinkofaname4265 he knew the invasion was coming and it was better the war be over sooner rather than it continuing. He was training for the invasion to begin with and his hometown of Kagoshima was going to be the location of the first landing site so without the bombs his entire family could’ve been killed either being forced into a banzai charge by IJA or killed in crossfire.

[@seattlewa8500]

@@deathblazer0you are an idiot.

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

I must admit, Necessary Evil is a pretty awesome name for a WW2 Heavy Bomber, especially considering the mission the B-29 was designed for.

[@dynasty0019]

I wouldn't be surprised the War Department purposely choose the Enola Gay as the bomb dropper instead of Necessary Evil. One of the reasons the Memphis Belle was chosen to tour the nation instead of Hell's Angels despite both have completed their 25 mission tour of duty around the same time is because the Belle sounded more politically correct. The military is notorious for keeping a "clean" image to the American people.

[@ImJef]

A lot of the b-29's involved in the nuclear project had very on-the-nose names. One of them was even named "Up an' Atom" lol

[@DylanJo123]

​@@ImJefthat atom name is a good one. They had one hell of a sense of humor back then

[@451whitworth4]

@@ImJef That's Radioactive Man's catch phrase

[@benn454]

@@DylanJo123 Your sense of humor gets pretty dark after a few years of war.

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

9:58 Chef's kiss to your editors and animators. Probably the best work on the channel.

[@mrgunn2726]

The Japanese Emperor's speech was not broadcast directly, but replayed from a phonograph recording made on August 14, it was that recording the coup plotters were searching for. Incidentally, this was the first time the people of Japan had heard their Emperor's voice.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

There was a docu drama made in Japan about that 24 hour period. It became known as "Japan's longest day" And is a fantastic thing to watch if you ever stumble across it.

[@mrgunn2726]

@@StormsandSaugeye Great tip, I did see the docudrama, which is how I learned about the coup, the recording, all the drama around it. Thanks for sharing :)

[@ThePuschkin1986]

cutting off the narration mid-word when Little Boy went off - what an outstanding idea! I was like 'Huh? What's happening? ...oh.... that's good, that's very good.'

[@ferrumbellatorwarsmith3342]

Straight up facts being told, best history channel

[@AlexMkd1984]

i laugh so hard on stupid people's who drink this fake KZbinr Lies 😂 😊

[@Sectarian.]

Atomic bombs are a lie. Germany with a it's scientists failed to get close to making one while America with a bunch of imported scientists produced one? How Pakistan owns one while Germany failed to do so?

[@clydedopheide1033]

I loved how you had the detonation cover the narration. I don't think of this channel as being dramatic, but that certainly was.... well done

[@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293]

I loved that lol. It was a nice touch

[@Dr-InkBlot]

Gave me chills

[@lukasfontana7589]

Initiate the detona...BOOM...that sudden effect was really well done to convey the speed of the chain reaction.

[@Archangelm127]

The Little Boy detonation cutting off the narrator was a magnificent touch. Made my heart skip a beat. ❤

[@alasdairwatson712]

I like the way that at 10:06 the explosion of the bomb cuts off the narration before the narrator can complete the word detonation.

[@jasoncarswell7458]

Worth mentioning that the reason why Fat Man was so poorly aimed was because overall mission commander and Bockscar pilot Major Charles Sweeney dithered too long over Kokura before deciding to divert to Nagasaki. Upon finding that it too was obscured, he was out of time and forced to make a blind radar drop. Bockscar literally ran out of gas the moment it hit the runway, with the crew shooting flares in all directions in expectation of a crash, the airplane swerving all over the runway and nearly taking out a line of parked bombers. Paul Tibbetts, who flew the Enola Gay, was not happy with Sweeney's performance. General Curtis LeMay wasn't either. He confronted him at the debriefing: "Well, you fucked up, didn't you Chuck?". Sweeney said nothing. LeMay turned to Tibbetts and said there was no point in an investigation anyway.

[@4rumani]

Boxcar...

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

Tibbetts arrived 5 minutes early to Hiroshima - Sweeney arrived 45 minutes late to Nagasaki. An unopposed blind radar drop would actually have been just as accurate as a visual one, but a good fix required several additional radar calibration passes before the final drop, which was time Sweeney didn't have. Sweeney went straight in, and his bombardier Kermit Beahan ended up throwing Fat Man 1.6 miles northwest of the target, which happened to be in the Urakami Valley, thus shielding the city from the worst of the fireball. Sweeney and Tibbetts did not get along after the war largely because Tibbetts felt his crew was amateur and had screwed it up. He also really, really didn't appreciate how Beahan wavered and apologized after the war, as it basically tarred them all with the same brush of guilt when Tibbetts felt none. HIS bombardier had slept all the way to Hiroshima, then slept all the way back!

[@josiahzabel8596]

@@4rumani en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar

[@_ArsNova]

Calling it "dithering" seems a bit dismissive and pejorative. The man was carrying the most destructive weapon in human history and wanted to make a good, accurate drop on a target obscured by heavy cloud cover. Without the benefit of 80 years of hindsight like you enjoy, mind you. You'd have certainly done no better.

[@Marin3r101]

​@@4rumanishut up troll.

[@jacqueschouette7474]

I've been to Hiroshima. The first time that I went to Japan, I made sure to go there to see the place where the atomic era started and where the non-atomic era ended.

[@failtolawl]

I had a friend go there and it was full of australians screwing around

[@tappytibbons735]

Visited Nagasaki my first time to Japan and went to the memorial under where the bomb detonated and to the museum. I can say without a doubt that visiting the city and sharing time with the people really changed how I take in this history.

[@Schnittertm1]

I've been there this year. Ground Zero, with just its plinth in front of a building marking the location of the explosion, is eerily unremarkable. Then, a few more meters and you get to see the preserved ruins of what is called now the Atmoic Bomb Dome. It certainly was something, standing at a place where, in an instant thousands of lives were just wiped out, as if they'd never existed.

[@ReichLife]

That would be Trinity Site, not Hiroshima.

[@jacqueschouette7474]

@@ReichLife If the US had sat on the atomic bomb, the Trinity site would have been a footnote in the history of the world and only a hand full of people would have known about it. Hiroshima is where the US came out and announced to the world that yes, we have a bomb that destroys cities and we know ho to use it. The start of the atomic era was Hiroshima, not Trinity.

[@Noelll]

Can you imagine if the “Necessary Evil” was the famous plane that dropped the bomb? It would be poetry if not so devastating.

[@Hexapon1]

Necessary evil is a menacing name for a B29 alone I could t even imagine if it was the one to drop the bomb

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

I actually think the Enola Gay is creepier. Imagine being the woman who's name is now directly and eternally assosciated with this. I never understood people who name weapons after loved ones. I never named any of my equipment in the army.

[@JimJimWACA]

@@_ArsNova There's a debate to be had there as I do disagree, but that's a debate I have no intentions to start

[@gaoxiaen1]

@@_ArsNova Japan brought it on themselves.

[@BaergoffWasTaken]

​​​​​@@_ArsNovaownfall would've dealt even more casualties. It is indeed, cruel and unfortunate. But as the video says, they were indeed warned to leave the city, the US gave Japan the opportunity to surrender twice, and, considering the high casualties and materiel losses Downfall would lead too, the bombings were a desperate necessary evil for the war to end. Both atomic bombings brought roughly half a million deaths, and the entirety of Operation Downfall would've taken 9 or 8 million deaths. Japan's stubbornness and fanatism led to their ultimate demise. All those 8 years committing atrocities in China came back to haunt them in a storm of fire and death, eventually making them realize how futile and costly resistance was. If you want to talk about cruelty in cold blood, take Nanjing, Unit 731, Bataan as an example. The Japanese were ruthless and bloody butchers, killing dozens of millions of people in their conquests, mainly Chinese. A country that had spent decades forcing their hand on millions, killing, plundering and slaving them, in my opinion, had it well deserved. Even up until today the Japanese do not accept their crimes against humanity. Defending a nation that has done awful atrocities towards the civilian population just because it was a deliberate attack against their civilian population is like dismissing the entire war against humanity the Japanese waged since 1935.

[@landonmiles1901]

There’s literally Japanese generals that said “we gave the Americans no choice.” Even after they dropped the cabinet was SPLIT on the decision to surrender. Even after the Emperor made the call, a coup was attempted to stop the surrender.

[@thepapschmearmd]

Yeah there is a lot of anti-nuclear revisionism attempting to paint it as if the nuclear weapons had no impact on the surrender when in reality it was the bombs and Russia declaring war.

[@tokysobukanla]

The video is chilling, and the way the detonation was made in the animation was fantastic. It was as if we were there, with a view over the blast and the blinding light combined with the interruption of the narration when the bomb hit the ground... bravo guys!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@chinchilla505]

Statistically speaking most people that disagree with the bomb in 2023 would agree with bomb if you lived during ww2. It was 85% agree in 1945 and 50% in 2015. We have the privelege of not living during WW2 so we are insulated from how devastating the war was, especially if allowed to continue beyond 1945

[@kalui96]

most correct thing you said in this comments section except every single one of them are (edited)

[@jasonchiu272]

I agree. It is crazy to think that the casualties on both sides of the war might be greater than that of the atomic bombs if the war continued without the atomic bombs.

[@kalui96]

@@jasonchiu272 war continued in Korea without the bombs. war continues today without the bombs

[@TomFynn]

Given that noways people vote to call an arctic explorer ship Boaty MacBoatface, a popularity contest is not an argument.

[@jdotoz]

Alternatively, the proximity to the crisis stirred uo emotions enough to impair people's rational judgement.

[@zachtac]

This channel is such a treat, this is the stuff my grandpa used to show me on like the history channel before the moved to all reality tv shows for ratings.

[@RedneckSith]

1:38 Here's a sobering thought: They ordered so many Purple Hearts in anticipation of the casualties an invasion of mainland Japan would cause that they're still handing them out TODAY, almost 80 years after they were made. Korean War, Gulf Wars, Grenada, Afghanistan, Somalia, Vietnam, almost a century of warfare and they still haven't run out. I know dropping the bombs is still controversial to this day, but consider this: The plan to defend the Japanese mainland involved arming women, children, the elderly, and the infirm with bamboo spears and charging soldiers en masse. The death toll on the civilian population would've been catastrophic, likely well into the millions. Add that to the fact that Stalin was in a VERY good position to steamroll over the rest of Europe once the USA had withdrawn (look up Operation Unthinkable), and I think anyone would be hard pressed to say that nuking a couple of cities was the wrong move. It was a terrible thing, but it ultimately saved far more lives than it took.

[@Fibonaccisghost]

Yeah unfortunately the conversation around the bombs dropped is bracketed out of context of the rest of the war. When people read that tens of thousands of civilians died in the two bombings, there's a shock. After reading about the Pacific War these past few years, I have a better understanding of the context, and the civilian deaths are just thousands added to the millions that died in that horrible conflict. The Red Army coming for Japan is an important point too. Once the Red Army started their offensive, it was basically the same as what they did in Prussia and East Germany a few months before: raping and pillaging everything in sight. If the US didn't accelerate the end of the war with the two atomic bombs, Japan could've ended up with a split country like Germany divided into a Soviet half and an American half, which would spelled decades of trouble for the people of Japan. And as bad at it sounds, the havoc and brutality of the Japanese in the 8 years before 1945 was a kind of sick justice for the millions of civilians they'd bombed, raped, and murdered all throughout Asia. Unfortunately the Japanese civilians paid that price. The leaders of Japan are the most frustrating part of this. They held out surrender way longer than they needed to save face and the emperor as a political force in Japan. They pretty much had no navy for the past 10 months before August 1945 yet they were still fighting an increasingly powerful US navy with kamikaze pilots and soldiers in caves fighting to their inevitable death. Utter insanity.

[@MobyShtick]

The bombs were not needed. Neither was a land invasion. Japans military capabilities outside their own country we're essentially Zero. This is a well documented and not often talked about fact. In Truman's own diary he admits that a land invasion was ready off the table before he even knew about The Bomb.

[@MobyShtick]

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[@chuckysmaria6466]

@MobyShtick And the us should have done what instead? Accept a conditional surrender? You seem to ignore the fact that from the start, japan was never a "good" enemy. From killing and torturing civies, grape, looting, killing pov, commiting acts of perfidy, using civies as meat shield. Yatzi germany had better chance of negotiating a conditional surrender (if only ussr was not nearer).

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

Purple hearts is a joke. America will not get away with its crime against the world. The enemy is getting larger, stronger and determined.

[@CLSiler2]

Been awhile since I've watched a video that gave me goosebumps and made my blood run cold. The way you handled the narration at the detonation was absolutely chilling.

[@Sectarian.]

According to official legend, there were NO tests of uranium bomb, which was said to blow up Hiroshima. Just imagine, some science-fiction guys tell you that they think that uranium can detonate if you put together some 84 kg of enriched uranium. You spend several years and who knows how many billions to enrich that uranium and you make a bomb, and drop it in Japan without any test. How do you know if chain reaction is possible at all? How are you sure that you need exactly 84 kg for that? How you know the level of enrichment? Today you could tell the world that you use a super computer to simulate everything, that you dont need real tests, and people will believe. But in 1945 they didnt have supercomputer, oops. So thats bullshit. If it were real, there would be dozens failed tests before they could make a working bomb

[@sudoFrank]

It is truly remarkable to see how much your channel has grown since 2020. Incredible video as always, great visuals and historical accuracy. Waiting on that Korean War series! ;)

[@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293]

I'm still waiting for a D-Day series!

[@shadowhawkk47]

This was fantastic. The way you narrated the bomb over Hiroshima, the sudden cut. Genius and shocking. Amazing video

[@lA-bk3wh]

The content, the voice melody, the historical accuracy and pronunciation of Japanese words all combine into a perfect example of professional content of this chanel. Highly admire your job guys. Well done.

[@charishalomvictor]

We can never even know that. Can we? But it might have or the war might have raged on till today

[@Fryepod3628]

Easily always been in the top 10 channels on youtube since you guys started. Unreal work. Gulf war video data gathering still blows my mind, both ground and air.

[@lagboi4539]

I like how this was released at the same day as Oppenheimer

[@StephenLuke]

Same!

[@jingleredthesecond529]

I think that was the plab

[@npizu]

your pithy storytelling is outstanding. i was on the edge of my seat! really appreciated the explosion sound effects when the bombs went off. this is a seriously underrated channel for us military/history buffs.

[@kwcykelvin]

the special effects of your videos are getting better and better. keep up the good work!

[@jhonbus]

Great video, well done. As always, you nailed the formula by presenting all of the salient facts, interspersed with personal accounts and contemporary politics to bring the topic to life, while covering the subject matter not just concisely, but sensitively - all the more difficult with this event in particular. I enjoyed the "dramatic effects" you added, really made your narration feel rooted in the unfolding of events.

[@ariochiv]

"Necessary Evil" is one of the best WWII plane moniker's I've seen. It's association with this particular mission is probably accidental, but that makes it even cooler. I can imagine the squadron commander's ironic smile as he reviewed the assignments.

[@patrickt7]

And then there's "Big Stink." Imagine being a part of the bombing of Nagasaki in a plane called Big Stink. That'd be a story for the grandkids 🤣

[@ShadowForge762]

From what I've read Necessary Evil only got its name years later, and was just known by its squadron number at the time of the bombing.

[@bjornr1120]

You are a idiot, typical Americans who like dead and destruction.. they should have dropped those bombs on America, then all the world problems where over by now.

[@herrmenschx5834]

all the bombers' call signs are fantastic. i am personally a fan of the great artiste and straight flush.

[@thurin84]

i doudt it was accidental. the 59th knew exactly what their mission was. theyd been dropping dummy high explosive versions of the a bombs called "pumpkins" practicing for the real thing for awhile prior to the the abombs dropping.

[@stevenschiro1838]

Thank you for mentioning the coup. There was a movie about that I saw years ago, and it was fascinating. They nearly succeeded. Even after the firebombings and the atomic bombs, a contingent still wanted to fight to the last

[@Marin3r101]

The hardliners in the military. I would hardly call that a contigent. It was a pretty influential group.

[@crazedvole]

There was a documentary on the history channel (back when the history channel was worth watching) called "The Last Mission" about the coup and the last bombing raid on Japan. The Emperor had made a recoding that was to be played the next day ("bear the unbearable") The coup members were looking for that recording and almost found it. But the last mission flew close enough to Tokyo to trigger a blackout and that delayed the coup members. Eventually the military (palace guard?) was able to stop the coup. Reason I'm glad the coup was mentioned is because when you learn this in school it is always made to sound like the two bombs were dropped and that was it. I never knew about the attempted coup until I saw it on the history channel. The Russians coming into the war was a big factor in the Japanese surrender.

[@andrewwood6285]

Yes. This was the subject of a History Channel documentary. I have the dvd. The coup attempt failed in pert because of another bombing run that was being made on another target. Tokyo blacked out its lights when they passed by and the soldiers participating in the coup had trouble searching for the audio record the Emperor had made to broadcast to his people that they were going to surrender.

[@KabodaOfficial]

Absolutely love this channel, as someone that used to be a big fan of "20th century battlefields" this really does a good job of portraying exactly what happened.

[@nintendiehard]

I love love LOVE how the explosion cut-off the word "Detonation". That was an amazing choice and really hammered-home the significance and power of it. Amazing.

[@MikeyMic11]

This was really well done. Awesome storytelling! I loved the eerie silence half way through. Very dramatic! 😄 great work!

[@mattbotham8133]

This has got to be one of your best videos I reckon. The detonation sequence was haunting. Superb work.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I liked the dialogue being cut off by the first explosion, very nice. As well, imagine being the Pilots mother and finding out her name is now forever linked to the nuking of Japan, grim stuff.

[@someguardsman]

Amazing work boss, a masterclass in visual storytelling. Especially the audio cutout during the first bomb drop. The dread was real.

[@kormoxkall6687]

That's a hell of a video to put out on the day Oppenheimer releases. Big respect to your sir, I've been watching since the days you started and I am impressed. Well done to you and this channel.

[@Duneuniverse]

I do wish the movie came out when we nuked Japan that would’ve been great

[@Bmetalful]

They chose a good looking White guy to play Oppenheimer because they don't want you to know his real background and what he was really about

[@damiandighton5199]

I absolutely love this channel. The way you cover each topic is amazing. I would love to see an episode on the Battle of the Bismarck Sea please. It was such a major turning point in the Pacific

[@JaredOtto]

I’m going to say it… This is the best video you have ever made! This is the first video I have ever seen on any platform that actually goes into what happened on those days. And 9:57 …CHILLING! Well done!

[@aymonfoxc1442]

I love this channel. Thanks for making another great video! Your video on the 'black hawk down' incident is a long time favourite of mine.

[@jasonx1174]

The way you told about the bombing of Hiroshima was nothing short of amazing. The lack of music, the stopwatch ticking, and the cut out of your narration right has the bomb explodes... then silence. Masterpiece tier work there.

[@PhillyPhanVinny]

The thing that bothers me the most about how WW2 ended is when people say it was the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that caused the end of WW2. This is insanely far from reality. If anyone views the records of the Japanese Imperial Cabinet meetings from the point of the fist atomic bomb being dropped through to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, the second atomic bomb being dropped and the Japanese surrender it is so easy to see the invasion of Manchuria played no-role in the Japanese surrender. The Japanese knew before the first atomic bomb was dropped that they were going to lose all of their Imperial holdings which included Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan. The Japanese hope in continuing the war and holding out was not to win the war at all but to force the US and allies into better terms that didn't include unconditional surrender. This way they could argue after the war that they fought against a much larger enemy force and didn't agree to unconditional surrender even though that was the allied goal. The Japanese knew the USSR was planning on invading them weeks to 1-2 months before the USSR actually did so. The Japanese could see the USSR moving their troops to the far east. There was only one reason for the USSR to do that. Months before the USSR invaded the Japanese holdings in mainland Asia the Japanese had already started moving as many of their troops and supplies from the mainland back to the Japanese home islands to further increase their defense efforts there. After the USSR invaded the Japanese Imperial Cabinet even say in the logs of their meetings that the invasion doesn't change their plans at all. They were already planning on just defending their home islands and making the cost of an invasion so high that the US and their allies would have to settle for some kind of terms other than unconditional surrender. They had already accepted that they had lost their territory on mainland Asia. It didn't matter to them if China or the USSR took it at that point in time. It was the atomic bombs that changed the opinion of some members of the Japanese Imperial Cabinet. Since the atomic bombs made it so the US and allies didn't have to invade the Japanese home islands. They could just nuke Japan until there was almost nothing left. The Japanese didn't know how many nukes the US had and weren't going to beleive their scientists about it after their scientists told them the there was no chance the US had more than 1 nuke after the first one hit them.

[@dovantien713]

Agreed, the Japanese had already accepted they were going to lose their Empire when the USSR invaded them. They didn't care who they were going to lose it to. They had already started moving their troops back from mainland Asia back to the Japanese home islands to defend there the best they could. The Japanese goal was to try make the cost of an invasion of the Japanese home islands so great that the US would settle for terms other than unconditional surrender with Japan. The US atomic bombs are what changed the Japanese opinion that they could force the US off those terms by making the defense of their home islands too great for the US to bear.

[@hydra70]

Do you have a source for this?

[@dovantien713]

@@hydra70 Yes, the Japanese Imperial Cabinet meetings. The Japanese lost the records of lots of things before 1943 because of the bombings on Tokyo. But the logs of the Imperial Cabinet meetings and what was said in them was kept and still exists in the official US WW2 logs (I believe the Japanese copy of the logs is still within Japan as well).

[@hydra70]

@@dovantien713 Repeating the claim is not a source. Give me links/page numbers/time stamps.

[@dovantien713]

@@hydra70 You can look it up yourself. There is a thing called Google. I'm not going to do the work for you, I told you what to look up.

[@G0RD0NL1M35]

I'm from the island north of Tinian, Saipan. When I was about 8 years old or so, my cub pack and I(Cub Scouts) took a trip to see the bomb bays where Little Boy and Fat Man were held in Tinian, and learned how the Enola Gay and Bockscar flew the bombs that ended the 2nd world war. Having been to Kokura via train while visting Fukuoka as an exchange student when I was 12(I'm 31 now), and to see how it all came together in this video is truly an otherworldy experience. Needless to say, the production was done very well so as to deliver the reality of what exactly happened on those days leading up to when the bombs were flown, armed, dropped, and ultimately detonated. Bravo, Sir. Bravo.

[@Rick-Rarick]

Some of the best content on KZbin. Great job, as always!

[@MyBlueZed]

Superb video! The way you presented the detonation was chilling and I felt it physically. Appreciate the correct pronunciations per usual. ❤

[@coryverses]

I think this is my favourite video you’ve made so far. Expertly done, great watch. Thank you

[@reerffrrrr]

New follower cause of this video…amazingly done. The explosion effects add so much depth to this documentary

[@patton_3605]

The way you cut yourself off at 9:57 made the bomb hit that much harder.

[@keithfarrell3370]

Absolutely the best presented channel on KZbin. Puts all others in the shade.

[@sidneysun5217]

awesome editing during that first detonation where everything is silent, well done. wasn't expecting that.

[@shakeypudding6563]

Totally support the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. Their Will had to be broken utterly before they would surrender to the allies. While the outcome was tragic, it ultimately demonstrated to Japan that their was war was truly over. They skated on many war crime issues that the Germans did not. And their leaders and especially the Emperor got off virtually Scott free. Any former or serving military personnel or their family would gladly sacrifice enemy lives for their own or their loved ones.

[@antartis73]

Amazing narrative and such excellent detail that I hadn’t heard before. 9:58 literally my heartbeat stopped

[@justandy333]

Wow! That video was very hard hitting! The ticking of the bomb on the way to the target was hair raising as all hell. And you obsoletely nailed the blast effects. Deep thud, blinding light, commentary actually gets cut off mid sentence, ears ringing, gradually fades out and returns. You got it just right. Very chilling.

[@tooldog]

Have you experienced it?

[@alexandruhagi]

The quality and visual description of the subject is so good! Thank you!

[@PakistanIcecream000]

It is said the Japanese would fight to the death not because they were extremely courageous but because they feared a similar heinous treatment they had already given to their enemies.

[@cattledogjasper1731]

You guys do amazing work. An idea for an episode I just thought of to go along with this episode is that of the history and final mission of the USS Indianapolis. It's a sad story but one that I feel your channel could do justice. Keep up the good work

[@tiagodecastro2929]

A channel here on KZbin called Memoirs of WW2 has an interview with a USS Indianapolis survivor. Great channel, anyone reading this who isn't aware of them already should look them up.

[@J_Stronsky]

Japanese foreign minister : "Hey USSR would you like to help mediate our possible surrender?" USSR : "Oh what's that? You would like us to declare war?"

[@PancakeBoi]

To those, in any case wonder why the US chose to bomb civilians/ a city population instead of a mountain or off the coast. It was to avoid complete denial from the government that it wasn’t a nuclear bomb. It was also meant to show how powerful this bomb was to the soviets (they already knew btw)

[@hydra70]

The opinion that they should have dropped the bomb off the coast is the most delusional of all of them. They didn't surrender after a city was annihilated, yet somehow people think that if that bomb had instead been dropped in the sea they would have? It takes 0.2 seconds of thinking to realize how dumb the idea is, but somehow people still hold on to it.

[@troybaxter]

The US did everything in their power to get Japan to surrender and save lives, and the Japanese government wasn't having it. The US had one true option, and one true option only: to drop the bombs and hope the Japanese government wakes the hell up.

[@natowaveenjoyer9862]

Hiroshima had multiple army units garrisoned within it on August 6th. Nagasaki had a naval yard and HQ. Dishonest comment.

[@RobbieNguyen]

​@@natowaveenjoyer9862We're not doubting that lmao.

[@TheLocoUnion]

Thanks!

[@athargilani]

i see what you did there! ... aligning this video with Openheimer's release is pure genius!

[@goombino_Tv]

I’m not lying when I say that a plane called “necessary evil” is one of the most badass things I’ve heard

[@PancakeBoi]

Pure American mindset

[@N7mudkip]

@@PancakeBoiwhat would you have done? Full scale invasion? Or more conventional bombing? Both of those outcomes mean many many more dead on all sides

[@ethanle8847]

@@PancakeBoi Correct. You can count on the Americans to always do the "necessary" thing even though it may look "evil"

[@Tuturial464]

@@ethanle8847better than unit 731

[@dualtronix4438]

Speaking of badass names, shoutout to HMS Vengeance, a submarine of the British Navy tasked with delivering a nuclear strike if the UK is struck by a nuclear attack

[@julianchiarieri751]

I got to meet Theodore “Dutch” van Kirk at an air show around 15 years ago. He mentioned feeling the shockwaves and the plane dropped every time. The crew didn’t know what would happen and thought that was it. He was a very nice man who I was lucky enough to meet. RIP Dutch!

[@Toy1er]

You should have asked him about Tahiti.

[@Lu.capuchino]

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[@johnnystankiewicz295]

The goverment wants you to believe that the "little boy" bomb was shaped like an regular nuclear bomb and not a mango from tahiti

[@NietzscheanMan]

Very nice man aside from the war crimes.

[@julianchiarieri751]

@@NietzscheanMan what would you suggest be done in this scenario, operation downfall with a potential for more than a million casualties? Check out the casualty numbers for both sides on battles like iwo or Okinawa.

[@time_to_teaparty]

The operations room always produces such great content. I hope you reach the 1mill soon.

[@linlenny1392]

I’ve been wanting this for so long. This is why this channel is awesome.

[@helenaconstantine]

Very nice the way you edited together your narration and the animation of the first bomb.

[@creativeprop540]

Necessary Evil is an ironically good name for a B29 on this mission.

[@fearofmusic1312]

The voice really fits to this channel and the way it presents "history from above". It's analytically cold, mechanical, dehumanising as is war if you are not affected by it.

[@OBJ317]

Ops man! Good to see you again. Legendary video, commenting before even watching. Congrats on all the success my brother!

[@commandernikel]

A lot of people may not notice, but if you ever find yourself up in the panhandle of Texas about 17 miles from Amarillo, you'll come across a real creepy facility that you might mistake for a prison but is in fact a place called "pantex" and it's a place where the US keeps and maintains nuclear weapons stockpile.

[@cartographer5030]

I feel like this channel just keeps getting better.

[@collinmiller87]

Very educational. I love learning about WWII, and thought I knew a lot about this, but I was wrong. I learned a lot from this video. I just wish it would have mentioned, quickly, what role the USS Indianapolis played in the whole thing.

[@humbertogaggero2904]

one of the best animation ever did by Operations Room, fantastic, well documented

[@STruple12]

Amazing job as always. Especially the dramatisation of the first explosion is very effective at portraying the horror

[@teamOPT]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🛩️ This video narrates the events leading up to and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. 08:16 💥 The first atomic bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, resulting in a massive explosion and firestorm that killed around 80,000 people instantly. 19:12 💣 Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, killing approximately 40,000 people instantly and destroying much of the city. 21:46 ☢️ The total death toll from both bombings, including those who died from radiation sickness and injuries, ranges from 200,000 to 250,000, with the majority being civilians. 21:17 👑 Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, effectively ending World War II. 22:14 🌐 The bombings' ethical implications and the necessity of using atomic weapons during the war remain subjects of ongoing debate.

[@localNPCboy]

Absolutely beautiful animation, I’d say this is one of the best videos you have made so far. Really nice!

[@caterpillajoe5225]

Beautiful depiction of 100,000 innocent woman and children murdered in cold blood. lol. 😂

[@whoelix]

@@caterpillajoe5225Japan had the option to surrender after the first bombing, but they wouldn’t so you can blame their leaders

[@KingOrpheus]

Incredible job delivering this key piece of history. Thank you.

[@Bozothcow]

Synced up very nicely with the release of Oppenheimer. Well, I can't complain! Fascinating bit of history and I like your take on it.

[@claylawson2470]

Hell yes the bombs were justified

[@brandonferretti9907]

To think, we're still using purple hearts made for operation downfall. That's how many the us made in preparation

[@CHlEFFIN]

What a treasure trove this channel is. From the bottom of my heart… thank you!!

[@shadowguy1112]

The timing of this video must have something to do with Oppenheimer! Fantastic video as always.

[@djvmsdjvms]

What an amazing channel this is. Very informative and neatly done. I love to support channels like this.