Remembering Tragic Aftermath Of Hiroshima Bomb - Hiroshima - BBC
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Hiroshima residents talk through their first memories after the bomb had fallen.
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The boy and the father make me cry
Same 😢
Ur late
Me to 🥺
Same
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This is sad. While Imperial Japan commited atrocities, it's sad these poor people paid the price for those evil generals and the emperor.
"fortunately" it was a better outcome than our original plan of a full scale invasion of mainland Japan which would have killed millions
It wasn’t really the emperors fault. It was just a symbolic position.
@@johnnyfedpost1776 THat the nuking of Japan saved millions is a myth generated in the US to justify their atrocity.
Black Tengu they were prepared for guerilla warfare the nuke was the fastest way to end the war rather than an invasion
@@mudkipsarelife4885
But it didn't end the war. What guerilla war?? The Japanese were already negotiating surrender before the bombs were dropped with the Russians as intermediaries. The only obstacle to surrender was the refusal of the USA to accept conditional surrender, the Japanese condition being to keep the emperor system intact.
Let's all hope something like this never has to be used in war again.
Pink Sheep It will happen in the next war.
meh really true
@@mehreally9673 not if the Americans are leaving their stupid army at home. You started warrior since the end of the second world war? embargo? hungry for people.
Same
I so aggre.
So tragic and sad. A war has no winners or losers, it has only survivors ☹️
With lasting pain and heartache.
Actually war does have losers. No victors. Economy,Land and people are lost
The gold words 👏
Even in victory, there is pain
damnnnnn these words are true
1:03 Poor lady. She thought that the whole thing must have been caused by her. I am so happy she survived.
I would have to same reaction to her
Of course she thought that. She had no idea, until she came to her senses, that this was a bombing attack, but one the like of which, the world had never seen before
She's just one person. How about the men who died in the submarine sunk in Pearl Harbor? How about the millions of other people in East Asia that had to suffer under an aggressive Japan? I don't feel sorry at all. War is bad; they brought it to our doorstep. I rather a woman dies on the other side of the world than my mother. Sorry.
That last statement made at the end is probably one of the most frightening things about all of this. After dealing the killing blow to a whole city the thing that runs through a hardened soldier's mind is 'good riddance, less people to have to kill later'
War is one of the times when true acts of heroism can shine at their brightest, but despite that it makes monsters of us all in the end.
A fact often glossed over by the civillian casualty is hiroshima was where the army hq for defense of kyushu (the planned US landing).
Had japan refused to surrender, hitting hiroshima and nagasaki and kokura will help in the invasion of the mainland.
"Somehow, my father spotted me. I guess he was calling my name, and I, maybe I responded. I says, "That's my Daddy!" And then, he stood straight to the soldier and he bowed many many times to the soldier, "Thank you! You are a savior!"
(Me---😣😖😢😩😫😥😭🤧)
TWSTF 8 and the soldier turned around with his hands in his pockets, head down and walked away....music in that scene caught the moment
Joe Eagle great eye
@J M what's got to do with Japanese civilians?
He probably died later on jn the radiation and fall out.
@@joeeagle896 Same for some reason.
the old man literally made me cry.
Which old man?
@@theoeguia3302 the Japanese person where he interview when he was a kid in that scene where the Japanese soldier holds him and sent it to his farther.
So does Pearl Harbor...
@@martin.aguilar.a I'm not real clear on your point. Please explain.
@@born2bbald12 I meant it’s not Pearl Harbor btw.
That is a brilliant story about the girl who was a tram driver. When we look at the Hiroshima bombing from a distance, it seems impossible that everyone would not understand it as we do. But when people are caught in the middle of an historical event, they understand it from where they stand. And at 16, a girl who was worried about the huge responsibility she carried and afeared she might do something wrong, interpreted the world from this perspective. After the bomb exploded, she thought she had caused some electrical fault in her tram and the destruction was all her fault. A brilliant story that deserves more exposure
@@mikegomintong8856wrong film
I want to hug Takashi so bad. He needs a hug, lots of hugs
I find it kind of saddening how this video has only ~80,000 views, while the one about dropping the bomb has over 22 mil. A comment I saw on that video describes it accurately: "People only care about the mushroom cloud, not the people underneath."
Hiroshima victims, rest in peace... we shall not repeat this grave mistake.
jaydee040 The IPT is wrong. The invasion of the Japanese mainland would have cost Probably 2 million lives and would be criminal when the invasion could have been avoided.
@@cumulus1234 It was not the right decision. It was a mistake, not on just America, not on just Japan, but on everybody, basically the war itself. It was Japan's fault for destroying other nations and waging a reckless war, but it was also the US's for bombing innocent civilians.
Massachusetts Mapping It still saved millions of lives from a Japan invasion.
@@cumulus1234 Not entirely. The bombs themselves weren't what prevented an invasion. It wasn't that simple. Even without the atom bombs Japan would have still surrendered because of the Soviets.
Massachusetts Mapping I don’t believe that the Soviets would have made them surrender, because at one time they were willing to fight till the death of everyone.
I’m not going to Lie....I almost cried watching this at work during lunch.
The fact that he learned English while actually going through this when only being 7, is amazing.
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a large population of Christians due to English and German missionaries who established churches there in the mid-1800's. Many of the middle class children attended their bilingual schools, and many went on to study in American and European universities before the war. There is a cathedral in the Peace Park that was raised after the war by surviving missionaries and their congregations.
I have never cried on any film (at least I don't remember crying) or in any game, but I cried like a baby on the soldier and father part.
"ONLY THE DEAD HAVE SEEN THE END OF WAR." - Plato
Ww1 "a war to end all wars"
ww2 "A war that will change hell itself"
ww3 "..."
Then silence.
The idea of WWI being the war to end all wars. That naïve way of thinking. Was the reason Germany and Japan were able to do as much as they did. In such a short time. After 6+million dying in the actual fighting in WWI. Nobody thought it would ever happen again. So they were not prepared for a world war to happen again. Even America, with how we had the ships birthed at Pearl Harbor. It wasn't that we believed we would never be attacked. We never thought there would be another world war. Same with the US in the Philippines. The Japanese were able to take it so fast. Was because we believed there would never be another world war. They only have WWI weapons there, and well as only 2 weapons for every 3 men. Ammunition was all from WWI. The government was like the rest of the world. Naïve enough to believe it would never happen again. So they didn't need to have the weapons needed to actually defend the Philippines. Poland, Austria, France. All were un prepared. Because they believed WWI would end all wars. So they didn't have the military's to actually defend themselves. Poland is actually a better example than America. They so believed there would never be another war, let alone another world war. They didn't really have any real military or airforce to fight back. What they had was really nothing. They didn't have a mechanized army, let alone any tanks. They used what they had it was suicidal, and extremely brave at the same time. All they had to fight the German invasion? Was their cavalry. Men on horses charged the German tanks and invading forces. That's how un prepared the world was.
Ww2: the war to start a nuclear war
@@BiscuitDelivery more like *A few years after ww3* “Ooga... Ooga booga dooga!”
I give all the solders that was saving lives at that moment after the bombing my respect
@@ArcticZombie He's talking about THAT moment. Not what other soldiers did in China. Not every single soldier was part of one giant killing machine.
@J M You're an american aren't you?
@@ArcticZombie you know it all started with the US. exploiting Japan and crashing their economy so Japan tried to save their economy by invading China to get ressources like oil and so on, which is typical even for today wars. All war crimes against the chinese people only have happened because of the US.
@@pepszi8993 even if that was/is true and as a 🇺🇸 the way I see it and just saying who ever was the biggest and strongest probably did whatever they wanted. 🇺🇸 probably can't help it if it's a bigger country than 🇯🇵 same way Jupiter is bigger than 🌎.
@@pepszi8993 how does that justify things like the rape of nanking? Or the treatment of POWs by the japanese?
2:19 those poor people had their skin melted by the intense heat of a nuke rip you have my respect for all the hell you went through 😔😔
There's a ghibli(?) movie they made, "grave of fireflies" it shows the grief the war caused to people😢
I cried a bucket there. Also brotherhood of war makes me cry like a baby
@@Knockyourselfout89 yup!!😭
There's also an anime film based on this manga about the Hiroshima bomb called barefoot gen
I recommend that anyone watching this try and get to the memorial park at ground zero in Hiroshima. Amazingly the “bomb” dome still stands, a structure that was damaged but survived surprisingly intact despite being only tens of metres from the epicentre of the blast.
They also have a museum dedicated to the victims, including written accounts from people who survived the blast, but then went back to help others, and instead were exposed to lethal doses of radiation.
There are an array of booths which contain paper cranes. A young Japanese girl, with cancer caused by the bomb, had the aim of making 1000 origami cranes (the crane is the symbol of peace in Japan). Sadly she did not live to finish her goal. However, school children from across the world who had heard her story, made and sent these cranes so there are now many glass booths filled with them.
In the same area you will find clocks which relay the time since the last time a nuclear weapon was used in wartime, and the time since the last nuclear test. Here there is also a flame which is constantly alight, and will be extinguished only when the last nuclear weapon is destroyed.
It is a truly somber place, yet Hiroshima is so vibrant and lively, with the famous Floating Torii and temples nearby. Even some of the old buildings in Hiroshima were reconstructed. It is hard to believe what happened there!
❤️
Her name was Sadako Sasaki I learned about her in 3rd grade we had a day before the end of the school year called Crane Day and we made paper cranes and our teacher read us a book about her
steal reinforced concrete structures can partially survive a nuclear blast but that only depends on how far or close to ground zero the building is
@@gdawg1585 same, i learned abt her at Kumon Test :)
There’s a myth that you can make a wish with 1000 cranes, which is why she tried to make 1000 cranes… to wish her illness away.
It said during tragic events the best compassion is the human spirit to help a person in need. The bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragic but if the bomb wasn't deployed WW2 would have continued into 1946 with the loss of thousands of allied soldiers, along with millions of Japanese civilians. My father in law was a USN Vet on a Essex Class Carrier in the Pacific and made home alive. His two brothers were POWs captured in the Philippines in 1942, and were found alive in a POW camp in Manchuria. If it wasn't for the bombings things would have been different for our family.
God bless u and all your family. Thanks to brave service members like the ones in your family we have the rights, freedom and prosperity of dreams. 🙏❤️
Just by the story it tore my heart, I can't will never will feel the raw emotion they felt on that day. The raw emotions that day felt must be so intense. Especially the father of the man of shares his story.
Imagine Pearl Harbor
Jeez the part about the little boy finding his father is enough to make any human with a soul shed tears 😢
It's not about Pearl Harbor, it's not about Nanking, it's not about Bataan. It's about people like these who get caught in the crossfire when big shots decide what's best for everybody.
Yes but we the people allow those big shots to make those decisions dont we. Look ar what's happening in the U.S with Trump. He conned his way into office, he is dangerous but if we the people stop being apathetic we could force him out couldn't we?
@@carolguzman408 You're a sad, sad human being.
@Kohima1944 no fyi I am an independent.
@@truereaper4572 not really I just don't drink the koolaid!
@@carolguzman408Trump was not dangerous. What you see in the WH now sure is.
Why can't we just get along 😭
Gabriella Medina Cause sadly some people are dumbasses
Because humanity is fundamentally insane
@jaydee040 You realize that the pacific war in Asia wasn't the only war right?
Because countries are like children. They're greedy, and when they don't like something, they do something about it.
@jaydee040 Imperial Japan actually elected the militarist party so....
As a Japanese , I am really sad about seeing many english comments saying that Atomic bomb was right. We don't need any apologies, But I hope more and more Americans learn the evilness of nuclear bomb, and what happened to people living in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Also, we Japanese should know about , what we did at Pearl Harbor and WWⅡ was not right too! We don't need war anymore.
You could've use Rape of Nanking, Korea or Manila for better comparison. But I guess I can't blame you for being ignorant. Even Japanese government is hiding it after all.
Don't worry, as an American I know how "evil" the nuclear bomb is and can be. But I don't think you still know why US dropped it. The Little Boy and Fat Man was "right".
Better bombs than invasion. Would you prefer for millions of soldiers and civilians in both sides to have been slaughtered in an invasion.
Was it right or wrong? Sadly in a war such as that those things get lost. How long would Japan have held out without using the bomb? A few more months or a week hard to say. The longer the war waged the more influence the USSR would gain in Asia. A prolonged war would have likely lead to all of Korea in the hands of the mad Kim Dynasty and maybe even a soviet occupation of part of Japan leading to a split of Japan during the cold war. I fear that world would be a far darker one to be in for Japan and the world.
The idea of nuclear weapons is horrible but without them we would have fought another world war or two by now with tens or hundreds of millions dying in those. Humanity is still in its irrational childhood in terms of growth on the galactic scale of time. Having the Sword of Damocles hang over our heads has helped make the time post WWII relatively peaceful compared to the ages past for humanity. I just pray the sword never has to drop to teach humanity as lesson in humility.
@@iplayfoofee3547 no... none of it was right nothing either side did was right war itself isn't right it was all one huge atrocity that caused so much pain and suffering...
The old man literally made me cry 😔😔
Cheers from Philippines!
I just wanted to give that kid a hug :.(
the thing is (i watch this in 2023)
the thing is that people have like a trauma from it but with luck and god they survived you got my respect
I remember my high school teacher showing us that documentary, still so sad to watch and always will be
These are the kinds of things that a video could never in 1 million years replicate the true experience of pure hell the people in the ground went through. Absolutely tragic.
I remember not being able to finish this documentary when I was a kid because of how terrifying it was. I think it messed me up a little bit but at least now I am aware of some things that people aren't capable of understanding
rip for the people who died 😢may they be remembered in our souls and may they be in good hands with god our father almighty
Yes, and Let's not Forget the Japanese, and their losses also!
2:58 this part made me cry
Makes me sad what people can do to each other, it’s not fair on the innocents ☹️🥺
You are going cry more into the future. When you see billions die in total nuclear ☢️ war!
I have only tears to speak
Man this is sad. I hope this doesn't happen again to you, me, and everyone, and hope it will never happen in the present or the future.
The sad reality is, sooner or later, someone will use this devastating weapon again. It is a matter of _when_ it will happen, not _if_ it will happen.
Heart broke 😪
Wow.. Goosebumps
That poor man retelling his story of being with his father 😢😢 that must have been horrid
WW1: the war to end all war
WW2: the war to change hell
WW3: Big boom boom
WW4: caveman 1:unga unga bigga chunga *smacks someone on the head with a stick*
Caveman 2: OO OO *throws rock*
WW5: begun,the clone wars has.
And repeat the evolution
More like ww3 would be the extinction of mankind due to having so many atomic weapons nowadays...
Thanks for making me laugh
"I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV.”.... "stone spears"... : Albert Einstein 1947.
It took me nine years to find this video again. We saw this in history class.
Right before I graduated high school a few years back, the librarian told me that her mother and uncle had survived this. I already knew about Hiroshima but I was shocked because you never think it could be connected to someone you know.
Truly shocking, why will we never learn.
The soldiers name was humanity.
I can't imagine how much of a nightmare this must have felt like! Worse than any apocalyptic zombie horror movie there is!
Damn my poor heart. I cannot😥
Kinda sad seeing people arguing dropping the bomb was 'right' or 'saved millions of lives'. It never is right, the war itself isn't right. Right or wrong doesn't really matter, it is what we learn from our past that matters.
Do you expect to kick a beehive and not have a bees swarm you? If your military wouldn’t have killed hundreds of US sailor‘s and opressed many other countries we wouldn’t have messed with y’all. mess with the best die like the rest🇺🇸⚔️🏴☠️
@@Clark-ul1bu typical American 😂
Then what was the answer since they did not want to surrender?
@@hertzwave8001 Japan was negotiating the conditional surrender before being bombed...
@@hertzwave8001 they were already negotiating. They were literally starving. Cause china and USA had blocked any Trade to japan and they had not enough food. It was a matter of days. Or at least just drop one, that would have been enough and a warning. The USA just didn't want to wait Anymore.
I cannot imagine what it was like for the survivors of this tragic and devastating tragedy. HORRIBLE! Innocent people obliterated because of fighting gov'ts and war.. I hate this. Peace.
R. I. P. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤
its amazing how mankind can do this to ourselves
the poor man crying.
2:17 Holy damn, all these poor people with wounds kind of remind me of a horde of walkers.
This documentary was showing us a mild picture of what the survivors in the immediate of the bomb. Their clothes burnt, hair sticking all over, and in many cases, skin melting from their hands like hot candle wax
Wow this is sad what a sad world
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace."
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Total War"
Damn this is so intense. War is brutal for both sides. I pray for everyone involved here, and for those who perished due to the bomb. Humanity as a whole needs to do better, I pray nobody ever uses a weapon like this on anyone else ever again in our history. Oddly enough I do agree that this did save many more lives cuz it ended the war. But we as earthlings must find better ways of dealing with conflict so people don’t have to die like this. This is all unfathomable, and I can’t believe the trauma that the survivors are living with. Just wow.
"Near the station about 2 miles from the flash Teriko Fussi thought her tram had short circuited on the overhead cables, and that the whole this was her fault."
I've had some serious laughter there xD
Each viewer must be proud because they are watching it to understand their pain which they could never:-*
I actually love how a little old lady thought one of the biggest nuclear explosions the world has ever seen was her breaking the tram😅😅😅
She was in school at the time, and probably in a lot of shock.
Sad
"War doesn't have a clear black or white, only blurred shades of gray."
-me
I pay my respects to all of those who have lost their lives due to war, and may you one day know peace.
50 shades
@@CloudyBogdan NOOOO
That Soldier carrying the child😪
Such tragedy.
" *Have you ever heard the tragedy of the Hiroshima bombing* ".
No
I thought not. It's not the story that the US will tell you
My dad helped to clean up Nagasaki he would never talk about it the effect was that bad lets hope it never happens again but do we really happened in Korea and Vietnam
Nice
Iam crying
Of course we realize this was done to prevent even more deaths.
Still that doesn’t make it any less sad or tragic. No matter which side they were on, civilians had to bear the loss.
A lot of people back then, and today. Say that America should have given a demonstration of the bomb. To the Japanese Emperor and generals, before actually using them. Let them see how powerful the weapon was. The key word there is "them". Besides it not being possible, because at the time we only had 3 of them. Yeah, the 3rd one was in transit to Tinian Island. It still took dropping 2 nuclear bombs to make them surrender. If an example would have worked, as people claim. Hiroshima should have been that example. But it wasn't. We still had to drop the second one.
It's always the innocent who suffer, not the leaders
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 es muy triste !
I remember when I went to Hiroshima, I had a nightmare of the bomb drop after effects, which had a Barefoot Gen feel to it
I watched it
It just happened to me some days ago, but in my dream it happened where i live, IT WAS SCARY. If you guys want me to explain they i will.
@@Samuello2024 Feel me to explain anytime
I have to admit that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were the worst things my country has ever done. I haven't even been born at that time.
How many more American lives would you have sacrificed to prolong the war by not dropping the bomb? You can be very specific with the exact number.
While you're thinking I'll remind you of the 98 American civilian contractors captured when the Japanese took Wake Island. The Japanese tortured/interrogated them before marching them blindfolded in front of a ditch and mowed them down with a machine gun. One man escaped but was later recaptured and personally beheaded by the Japanese commander. Airmen captured at sea were tortured/interrogated then bound hand and foot before being pushed into the ocean. In all the Japanese killed 30,000 prisoners of war with torture and starvation. If a POW failed to bow to a Japanese soldier they were hung from their wrists and had all of their bones broken with rifle butts. Oh, and that doesn't even scratch the surface of the atrocities committed by the Japanese. As for surrender, well, the Japanese military attempted a coup to prevent surrender even AFTER we dropped the bomb.
You Japanese are like a bully beating up so many people and become so bold to beat up a big guy. When the big guy beat you up, you keep crying like a baby as you are a victim.
You Japanese have to admit the devilish atrocities you people did to the peoples of China, Korea and South East Asia were the worst things they had suffered.
Taiwanese are the most forgiving because they have been enslaved and brainwashed by Japanese Imperialism. They were the ones who donated the most to the 2011 Tsunami fund and sent prayers to you. However, a Japanese right-wing demon went to Taiwan to insult the Taiwanese by kicking the statue of a Taiwanese comfort woman. When a Japanese committed a crime overseas, the Japan government and the Japanese will feel shameful and guilty and apologise as a nation. However, in this case, the Japanese government did not apologise and the Japanese people did not condemn his act. Taiwanese have no backbone. They still think that they are Japanese Imperial citizens but the Japanese perceive their status lower than a Japanese dog.
You know nothing (glass of milk)
Verry. Sad😢😢
DAMN RIGHT JANINE
This is making me teary eyed. Thinking of all the civilians that suffered just because the higher ups of the Japanese military and government were only satisfied by their ultranationalist ego and chose to ignore America’s warning about the weapons.
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Wrong the Japanese people supported and were willing to die for Japan’s and the emperor. They all carried weapons of Americans invaded . They werent innocent
@@copizz9558 I know that in another video from the documentary, there were high school girls being trained by the Japanese military to use bamboo sticks in the event of an invasion. But there were also people just going about their everyday lives when Little Boy was dropped, like the tram driver lady who thought she accidentally caused a power outage, and Takashi the school boy. Those were who I felt sorry for.
Choose Peace.
Or.
Pay the Price.
(Bonus: This is how Fallout game was born.)
Nakakaawa nman
now we can learn 🥺
the cities we attacked had multiple military outposts but the bombs were much more powerful than we expected much more death than we had bargained for
*Would You Imagine A Nuclear War*
Atomic bomb falling from the sky like it was raining destroying environment
Well it's like we're "inevitably" fucked if that does happen.
@CKS1949 And very, VERY VERY FAR AWAY THAT EVEN THE RADIOACTIVE RAIN CANT REACH YOU.
this happened way before I was even born now that i know this it made me want to appreciate life even more
Throughout history, horrific atrocities have been committed by both good and bad people. This is just one of many.
War is hell.
Ff is it okay to cry?
Remember even after the bomb many of the military advised the Emperor not to surrender ! They did not care about their own people and had been ruthless in their attack on much of Asia !
I hope there is no war again.war is hell guys
What's the name of this documentary? I can't seem to find it in UA-cam. It looks so good!
It's called Hiroshima and they had it in Netflix a while ago.
Although the US military was just looking at an airplane,
People of those days died a lot. It was an ordinary life
By the way, at the moment, I feel that China will cry more crying than Japan at that time, and you will see ...
I do not glorify America or glorify China, I am an Arab person and I glorify the Arabs as a whole, but I have a feeling that China will regret much of its vanity with its power and it has forgotten the difference between its size and the size of America and the influence of America on the countries of the world and this is what will happen in the coming days and this is just a feeling and in the end knowledge is with God Almighty alone...
It's sad, tens of thousands of innocent lives have been lost.
All because of the Japanese military government’s ego.
My heart goes out to any that are put through war! The fine Japanese people there suffered this day! I pray for there wellbeing!
The people of Japan were all for the war and were willing to die for it . That’s why this happened
Such a cruel action. God will make the people responsible for this act pay eventually.
Japan didn't only face pain they also gave pain and other countries experienced pain
Sømeone did I say that others didn’t experience pain??
@@alinaahmad2853 War is War, nobody is a winner. Welcome to the real world where conflicts have been happening for thousands of years
The absolutely brutal Imperial Japanese government and military were responsible for this, and no one else.
Step 1: lie down
Step 2: try not to cry
Step 3: cry a lot
War politics, theoretical statics, and what could have happened or what should have happened...
All those aside, it is quite chilling that we can still talk to the survivors who have experienced first handedly the most destructive weapon mankind has created.
This is a sobering reminder that warns us about our own self destructive tendencies. What separates us from animals isn't just intelligence or sense of morality; but also our ability to use our intelligence to go against and destroy morality.
I'm a veteran myself - ofcourse not WWII. I wouldn't dare say that I've experienced the trauma soldiers and civilians experienced during WWII. What I WOULD say is simply that war is hell.
Oh, my God
In war truth is always the first casualty. Nuclear weapon is the last option to save perhaps more life in the long run .Just imagine what will happen in operation downfall was initiated.
@jaydee040 They played a part but even without them Japan would have still surrendered. This whole "it was either bombs or invasion" thing isn't really true.
@jaydee040 Umm...ok. You do realize I was agreeing with you, right? I even said that Japan would have surrendered without the nukes. I'm not unaware of Japan's surrender, or the firebombings. But saying they had absolutely nothing to do with it isn't really true either.
@jaydee040 Well basically there were multiple reasons for Japans surrender. They had lost most of their navy, they couldn't defend against an invasion, and the Soviets had entered war. However on top of all this the realization the US had nuclear weapons at least helped with the surrender, since they were in the surrender speech.
@jaydee040 Do you want to continue this conversation on my comment? I don't need the original commenter dealing with a massive reply storm from this conversation
There were so many ways the US could have used the bomb to intimidate Japan into surrender. Why did it have to be two cities out of all things? This was a truly a crime against humanity.
You have to understand. Back then the average Japanese citizen was ready to die for the Empire. Men, Women, Young and Old, frail, sick, crippled, they were legit ready to throw themselves against a American Land invasion to defend the island.
The American government didn't want to do that as they were already tired of WWII overall, and didn't want to just see more lives wasted in the invasion. Also confounding was the Soviet invasion of Korea, then Manchuko, and fears that a US/Soviet invasion would split the country and result in a Communist, puppet north, much like Germany post war.
There were other ideas, like a naval blockade or a siege. But in the end they figured that such a terrible weapon could maybe shock the sense into the Imperial Government, maybe have them surrender, hopefully.
In the end it took two bombs and the realization of Soviet Russia at the back door to bring Japan's Unconditional surrender. In the end many lives were lost in the bombs, and in the post war injuries and cancers. But Japan's population would have potentially been more devastated by the suicidal defense in the case of invasion. We will never know how the outcome of any option other than the Atom Bombs, but at the least, America and Japan today are great allies and friends, and the long run, everything is fine. All we can do is be good to one another, and pray to never find an excuse or reason to use Nuclear wapons.
@@happymartin6778 This ^
They wouldn't even surrender with the first one.
This guys no john wayne lol more like a Trevor noah 😆
Do a bit of reading about the rape of Nanking. I'd also point out that EVEN after the second bomb, the military STILL refused to surrender.
1. Ask china for resources: Nope
2. Join the Allies again and ask them for resources: Nope
3. Ask the nazis for resources: Nope
4. Ask Egypt PEACEFULLY for resources: Nope
5. Bomb pearl harbor near US land where children see the explosion, and kill innocent live who helped you in ww1, just to invade Egypt, take over Southeast Asia, and disobey Germany when they told them not to bomb the U.S: YEAH! 😃
Tsutomo Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima when first A bomb exploded . He survived
then took train to Nagasaki overnight ......He thought it would be safer there. !
Guess what happened next ??.........He survived that too ..! Unbelievable.
Can any one tell me, what the full length version is, that this clip is taken from?