Gives an account of the first experimental atomic bomb blast in New Mexico. Depicts aerial views of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and closeup shots of devastation.
My Grandma is Japanese. I'm American. There is no chance I would be able to truly put myself into her shoes during the year 1945. All of her family lived in Nagasaki, and they lost almost everything they owned. Yet, to this day, my grandmother is proud to now be an American citizen. I love her so much
My mother-in-law is Japanese and her mother lived in Hiroshima during the start of the war. Her mother, a sweet old lady with a wicked sense of humor, was five when this happened. Luckily for her they were in Nara when the bomb fell so they were spared the worst of it. Unfortunately her father was a soldier so he died in the blast. They lost everything in the blast. Their home, belongings and it took some time to get back on their feet. It was a hard time for everybody. She never blamed the Americans for this. And she never treated me with anything other than respect and kindness. Lovely woman. Never heard her say a bad thing about anybody.
I'm amazed at how the Japanese and the US are good alias concerning that we dropped two nuclear bombs on two of their cities. I'm glad to have them as friends too.
All future generation MUST understand that, once the war was over and things settled down, a miracle happened. Americans forgave Japanese, and Japanese forgave Americans. We began to be friends, and that friendship has waxed strong enough that we are now allies. I have a deep respect for Japanese technology and willingness to make really good products, such as vehicles, guitars, pianos, whatever. I give no quarters to hatred, and advise others to do likewise.
@@allangibson2408 Fallout was a secondary concern. The airburst was chosen to create a "mach stem" in order to cause maximum destruction. I believe this was classified at the time which is why you don't see any reference to that in this film. ua-cam.com/video/IUsYsskBMXA/v-deo.html
They indeed had zero concern about radiation concern at this time. There was an intent to use the next tranche of bombs to prepare landing beaches during Operation Olympic. They had no idea what it would have meant for 100,000 soldiers to then walk through and dig foxholes in such an irradiated landscape.
@@iitzfizz Yes I should have said fused to maximize blast effects. That is the correct statement. Thank You for pointing that out. Quite a time in human history. One of man's less noble moments.
"they made no attempt to zone their various types of buildings...no apparent regard for the safety..." Yeah Im sure they didnt expect a nuclear bomb tho.
The zoning criticism was not for a nuclear bomb but for bombing in general. We had been bombing Japan for years, mostly with incinderaries. Because of the lack of zoning separation the populace and industry were intermixed. We were unable to bomb only military or industry, the civilians suffered equally. The Japanese never separated their civilian population from industry.
The thing I don't understand about all these videos is that they are, as reported, taken from 6 miles away and yet the sight and sound are almost instantaneous. From 6 miles there should be a 28 second delay between the sight and the sound.
Poor bastards filming this had no idea of the effects that would follow. Not discounting the residents of Hiroshima but it was war. The film crew thought they were filming a clean environment.
I am 70 years old, and I have seen footage like this since I was in junior high school. Every time I see these films, it makes me cringe. I hope and pray that this world has let the images of this mass destruction stay in the minds of the people then, now, and for future generations. I hope that this will never be an option to settle wars. Atomic war is a war that keeps on giving, the attacked areas are never the same and neither are the people who survive, this is not the answer for solving issues.
Without being morbit or unsympathetic which I am . It would be be interesting to see this coulourised. The details are much clearer. For social history. ☘️
Remember when they explained the shadows created by the bomb on the walls? Well, what they failed to show is what was, and is considered "the shadow people." To this day the shadows of humans remain on walls throughout Japan. 😪
How can they remain on walls "throughout Japan" when atomic bombs were used on TWO cities? Do you mean shadows are on walls in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kobe, Yokohama, Osaka, etc? How'd the shadows appear in those cities?
@@buckhorncortez In Heroshima & Nagasaki, I thought I was clear with my statement. The citizens that were incinerated was so fast that they left their shadow on a wall. Shadows do not burn. so the shadows that remained are commonly referred to as "the shadow people" and they are still present in some parts of the city's,.
When I was yet in grade school, (about 40 years ago), I saw footage of a Japanese man standing there and then, in an instant, was just a carbon shadow on a brick wall! That image was seared into my mind; But, I have not seen it ever again. Does anyone know the footage I am referring to? How does footage even survive that?
Seems like Little Boy may have been a partial fizzle. That is not utter devastation. There is a lot of structures still standing very close to ground zero. Trees one tenth of a mile from ground zero are still standing? That school was a 1/4 of a mile away and it was still upright. With a 15kt blast, detonating at around 1900 ft, i would have thought a good 1/2 mile of area would have been flattened to nothing.
Otherwise I think the problem with air burst is that you are already far from the bomb. I mean if you are directly under it that's already 575 meters and this wasn't a particularly "big" nuke. So maybe that also played a role.
@@ChatGPT1111 Radiation is generated 360 degrees from the core. But, AIR absorbs short wavelength radiation so the radiation with that size bomb is limited to about 3,000 feet. Roughly 80% of all residual radiation will degrade through decay within 24 hours. Research has indicated that 24 hours after a bomb is detonated the radiation is 1/1000th of the amount immediately after the bomb was detonated. The rule of thumb is that for every sevenfold increase in time after the explosion, the radiation dose rate decreases by a factor of 10.
Just think, the Russians detonated a bomb 5,000x larger than these (100MT). It was a very modest version of a much larger one they had planned for later but never finished.
Not exactly. It was scaled for 100MT but Tsar Bomba's yield was reduced to 47MT. They also put a parachute on it to retard the drop. Even with all that the plane barely made it out of the area before it detonated.
ourselves. "Tsar Bomba" WAS planned for 100 Megatons. It was supposed to be a "three stage" experimental bomb. But Sakharov, their principal Bomb designer, was concerned that so powerful device might have adverse geophysical effects (earthquakes, etc), so he designed it for three stages but activated only the first two. The third stage was filled with lead. The bombs yield was thus 50 melatons. It destroyed the island above which it detonated. And it was never an effective weapon. It was too big to carry in their biggest bomber, and so was dropped from a special carriage beneath the aircraft. A plane carrying that sized monster in wartime would be promptly shot down.
What a shame! Thinking about a lot of families , babies, women, animals also killed too. Responsibilities not over even by death, every unforgiven crime will be judged and punished.
@@buckhorncortez Cortez what you say is a massacre, and those who did it are responsible for their own actions, and those who murdered Japanese innocents are responsible for their own actions.
Yes, agree about the Japanese and German nuke programs being very advanced. If one guy tries to stab you, you're justified in shooting him. If a nation tries to destoy you, you're justified in doing whatever it takes, incl destroying them. They could've surrendered after our massive conventional attacks and then the first nuke but didn't. Everyone in Japan was behind their God Emperor and the Emperor was behind our complete destruction, commanding them to fight to the very last man.
That jesuit priest was obviously reading prepared answers in the last part of the interview. Pro American Propaganda is what it sounded like. I think it would be interesting to know what his real thoughts were.
Hi F Davis, no he did not "read pro-American propaganda", he was German, Roman Catholic and tired of war. His testimony along with the other priests and parishioners that he did care for and/or saved corroborated his statements (four Jesuits survived). My uncle was still being tortured in a Japanese POW camp until the very day of Japanese surrender, more than 1,000 military and civilians were dying every day the war was prolonged ... Japanese military did not surrender, did not follow Geneva/Hague Convention, tortured military and civilians-alike... should I say more? America is not always the bad country - Ciao, L (Veteran)
Einstein did NOT approve of the A-bombings of Japan (neither did Oppenheimer and all the other atomic scientists). If you think Einstein was a great man, then accept his wisdom, you hypocrite.
Einstein had two things to do with the atomic bomb. He defined the relationship between energy and matter and signed a letter co-written by Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to Roosevelt urging him to pursue nuclear technology - that's it.
Einstein was a far greater man than you can comprehend. He was a pacifist and abhorred war but he knew that if we didn't develop the bomb first, our enemies would.
It's a misconception that Einstein invented the atomic bomb. He didn't. Actually at the beginning he thought that nukes are "impossible" just like reactors. What's more: when the bombs were dropped and the news came in about the casualties he was against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon.
Really? Then you might want to read two books. The first is "140 Days to Hiroshima," and the second is "Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire." Both books will disabuse you of that statement. The fact you want to ignore is that in 1945, and especially the summer of 1945, the central reality is that how and when the war would end were in the Japanese leaders’ hands. They refused to surrender until two atomic bombs were used. Russia entering the war had been anticipated by Japan since February of 1945, so the Russian entry into China was a factor, but the major factor.
Even more unnecessary would be the fight to the last man with an invasion of the homeland and a commensurate loss of allied forces. If this same fighting principle was used by the Imperial Army for distant Japanese conquests, it is generally understood to be even more applicable to Japan proper. With complete national destruction, the Japanese would still be rebuilding their cities today.
The t military targets that they list here did not exist they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki even though it was cloudy they didn't know where they was aiming at and Hiroshima they dropped it right on top of a school
Oh really. The retail propaganda networks worked on you. It's the main streamers who cause wars. Trump won't light off nukes. Some insane dictator will (CCP, your allies).
My Grandma is Japanese. I'm American. There is no chance I would be able to truly put myself into her shoes during the year 1945. All of her family lived in Nagasaki, and they lost almost everything they owned. Yet, to this day, my grandmother is proud to now be an American citizen. I love her so much
Well said. And we are sad for the events of WW2, however also happy to have the Japanese as allies in these current times. Peace to you and family.
My mother-in-law is Japanese and her mother lived in Hiroshima during the start of the war. Her mother, a sweet old lady with a wicked sense of humor, was five when this happened. Luckily for her they were in Nara when the bomb fell so they were spared the worst of it. Unfortunately her father was a soldier so he died in the blast. They lost everything in the blast. Their home, belongings and it took some time to get back on their feet. It was a hard time for everybody.
She never blamed the Americans for this. And she never treated me with anything other than respect and kindness. Lovely woman. Never heard her say a bad thing about anybody.
Love peace be too all
My grandmother was Italian and would tell us stories of the hundreds or even thousands of B-17s during bombing raids over her city. Seemed so wild
I'm amazed at how the Japanese and the US are good alias concerning that we dropped two nuclear bombs on two of their cities. I'm glad to have them as friends too.
Old enough to say I actually survived the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Regardless of your age, you did too.
It's even more chilling when you see the film that shows all the bodies.
Can you give me the title?
There is a video that just shows a bunch of bones everywhere.
All future generation MUST understand that, once the war was over and things settled down, a miracle happened. Americans forgave Japanese, and Japanese forgave Americans. We began to be friends, and that friendship has waxed strong enough that we are now allies. I have a deep respect for Japanese technology and willingness to make really good products, such as vehicles, guitars, pianos, whatever. I give no quarters to hatred, and advise others to do likewise.
Never stops being compelling. At the same time there's the incongruous understanding of it being "small" (in present terms).
Incredibly so, especially compared to the height of the cold war where they were fielding nukes up to 25 megatons. Crazy.
4:17 It was fused to burst at approx. 1,800' to maximize destructive yield. Radiation was not a concern.
Actually radiation was a concern - that’s why a ground burst wasn’t chosen (to minimise fall out).
@@allangibson2408 Fallout was a secondary concern. The airburst was chosen to create a "mach stem" in order to cause maximum destruction. I believe this was classified at the time which is why you don't see any reference to that in this film. ua-cam.com/video/IUsYsskBMXA/v-deo.html
They indeed had zero concern about radiation concern at this time. There was an intent to use the next tranche of bombs to prepare landing beaches during Operation Olympic. They had no idea what it would have meant for 100,000 soldiers to then walk through and dig foxholes in such an irradiated landscape.
Well, it wasn't to maximize the yield as the yield would be the same but it was to maximise the blast.
@@iitzfizz Yes I should have said fused to maximize blast effects. That is the correct statement. Thank You for pointing that out. Quite a time in human history. One of man's less noble moments.
"they made no attempt to zone their various types of buildings...no apparent regard for the safety..." Yeah Im sure they didnt expect a nuclear bomb tho.
Here is a much better version ua-cam.com/video/Ot-acn1whrc/v-deo.html
where war crimes are not glorified
I was going to point out the same thing. I suppose the city planners of today are better prepared for total annihilation.
The zoning criticism was not for a nuclear bomb but for bombing in general. We had been bombing Japan for years, mostly with incinderaries. Because of the lack of zoning separation the populace and industry were intermixed. We were unable to bomb only military or industry, the civilians suffered equally. The Japanese never separated their civilian population from industry.
I glad the War Department keeps us informed.
Surely you jest.
I guess I hope Russia do the same give us fair warning for they strike during this bloodthirsty and lunatic Ukrainian War
The thing I don't understand about all these videos is that they are, as reported, taken from 6 miles away and yet the sight and sound are almost instantaneous. From 6 miles there should be a 28 second delay between the sight and the sound.
Not true - go review the section of this film interviewing the priest
@@ellayararwhyaych4711 Which part isn't true? I need a point of reference.
What is interesting is that the Trinity test had no recorded sound.
Poor bastards filming this had no idea of the effects that would follow.
Not discounting the residents of Hiroshima but it was war.
The film crew thought they were filming a clean environment.
I am 70 years old, and I have seen footage like this since I was in junior high school. Every time I see these films, it makes me cringe. I hope and pray that this world has let the images of this mass destruction stay in the minds of the people then, now, and for future generations. I hope that this will never be an option to settle wars. Atomic war is a war that keeps on giving, the attacked areas are never the same and neither are the people who survive, this is not the answer for solving issues.
7:37 Could that be the T-bridge, the aiming point for the bomb?
There are people who survived BOTH bombings. Japanese even have name for them: "hibakusha". I think the rough translation is: "unlucky mofo"
@JZ's Best Friend Japan deserved every bit of what they got
Without being morbit or unsympathetic which I am . It would be be interesting to see this coulourised. The details are much clearer. For social history. ☘️
Sobering.
Little did they know they all got radiation poisoning
All of the German Jesuit missionaries lived long lives free of radiation sickness.
Remember when they explained the shadows created by the bomb on the walls? Well, what they failed to show is what was, and is considered "the shadow people." To this day the shadows of humans remain on walls throughout Japan. 😪
How can they remain on walls "throughout Japan" when atomic bombs were used on TWO cities? Do you mean shadows are on walls in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kobe, Yokohama, Osaka, etc? How'd the shadows appear in those cities?
@@buckhorncortez In Heroshima & Nagasaki, I thought I was clear with my statement. The citizens that were incinerated was so fast that they left their shadow on a wall. Shadows do not burn. so the shadows that remained are commonly referred to as "the shadow people" and they are still present in some parts of the city's,.
Which will now come next, the asteroid or the bomb?
That's a sobering question.
Exist many... many other possibly to declassify.... video about nuclear testing, i hope for a new series of releases...
When I was yet in grade school, (about 40 years ago), I saw footage of a Japanese man standing there and then, in an instant, was just a carbon shadow on a brick wall! That image was seared into my mind; But, I have not seen it ever again. Does anyone know the footage I am referring to? How does footage even survive that?
There wouldn't be direct footage of that. Most likely a recreation.
Yes I did see that film but I do not remember the film name. Sorry
Might be a clip from the anime film Barefoot Gen
I was a nuclear weapons technician ....for real.
i was involved at K-25. For real. All gone now.
Oh, what mark of weapon?
Seems like Little Boy may have been a partial fizzle. That is not utter devastation. There is a lot of structures still standing very close to ground zero. Trees one tenth of a mile from ground zero are still standing? That school was a 1/4 of a mile away and it was still upright. With a 15kt blast, detonating at around 1900 ft, i would have thought a good 1/2 mile of area would have been flattened to nothing.
Otherwise I think the problem with air burst is that you are already far from the bomb. I mean if you are directly under it that's already 575 meters and this wasn't a particularly "big" nuke. So maybe that also played a role.
"See the light, feel the heat." -- Reagan
It's how Godzilla was made.....
And he's had a nearly 70-year film career that seems to have no end in sight...
I'm certainly glad this is an "official" film. Can't trust those imposter films now can we?
ty for posting/ It seems the ground this was shot on would have been highly radioactive.
But no body seems to care ?
Google said because of how high it detonated above ground radiation was minimal on ground.
@@angelataylor4975 Sounds good ty
Its like covid they didnt know the damage it would have done after the fact
In the video, they said the high atmospheric bursts directed radiation upward.
@@ChatGPT1111 Radiation is generated 360 degrees from the core. But, AIR absorbs short wavelength radiation so the radiation with that size bomb is limited to about 3,000 feet. Roughly 80% of all residual radiation will degrade through decay within 24 hours. Research has indicated that 24 hours after a bomb is detonated the radiation is 1/1000th of the amount immediately after the bomb was detonated. The rule of thumb is that for every sevenfold increase in time after the explosion, the radiation dose rate decreases by a factor of 10.
Wow the ears on the father.
Just think, the Russians detonated a bomb 5,000x larger than these (100MT). It was a very modest version of a much larger one they had planned for later but never finished.
Not exactly. It was scaled for 100MT but Tsar Bomba's yield was reduced to 47MT. They also put a parachute on it to retard the drop. Even with all that the plane barely made it out of the area before it detonated.
@@tsarbomba1 wow, I didn't think the bomb(a) actually had its own You Tube account! Now I've seen everything. Respect!
ourselves. "Tsar Bomba" WAS planned for 100 Megatons. It was supposed to be a "three stage" experimental bomb. But Sakharov, their principal Bomb designer, was concerned that so powerful device might have adverse geophysical effects (earthquakes, etc), so he designed it for three stages but activated only the first two. The third stage was filled with lead. The bombs yield was thus 50 melatons. It destroyed the island above which it detonated. And it was never an effective weapon. It was too big to carry in their biggest bomber, and so was dropped from a special carriage beneath the aircraft. A plane carrying that sized monster in wartime would be promptly shot down.
Quick get your slide rule out we have more death to calculate...to the second
unconvincing
shape your charge
@13:12 "'with no apparent regard for the civilian population" good grief --as if dropping a nuke did...
It’s really interesting how the priest describes the Japanese admiration , not hatred, towards the Americans as the war went on.
notice there's no dead people
Doesn't look like alot of damage really.
Looks like Detroit.
@@garymckee8857 🤣🤣
Imagine a hydrogen bomb..i want to see a 4k nuke blast test tho
@@thumbsupcrew4427 And how do you think that would be possible?
thats nu- kyu ler. ... H. Simpson
ground zero: zero point.
What a shame! Thinking about a lot of families , babies, women, animals also killed too. Responsibilities not over even by death, every unforgiven crime will be judged and punished.
You figure the 120,000 people a month being killed by the Japanese in the countries they controlled during WW 2 had lives any less important?
@@buckhorncortez Cortez what you say is a massacre, and those who did it are responsible for their own actions, and those who murdered Japanese innocents are responsible for their own actions.
You DO know the Japanese and Germans were trying to develop this weapon also, right? We just beat them to the finish.
Yes, agree about the Japanese and German nuke programs being very advanced. If one guy tries to stab you, you're justified in shooting him. If a nation tries to destoy you, you're justified in doing whatever it takes, incl destroying them. They could've surrendered after our massive conventional attacks and then the first nuke but didn't. Everyone in Japan was behind their God Emperor and the Emperor was behind our complete destruction, commanding them to fight to the very last man.
@@dinkul903💯
That jesuit priest was obviously reading prepared answers in the last part of the interview. Pro American Propaganda is what it sounded like. I think it would be interesting to know what his real thoughts were.
Hi F Davis, no he did not "read pro-American propaganda", he was German, Roman Catholic and tired of war. His testimony along with the other priests and parishioners that he did care for and/or saved corroborated his statements (four Jesuits survived). My uncle was still being tortured in a Japanese POW camp until the very day of Japanese surrender, more than 1,000 military and civilians were dying every day the war was prolonged ... Japanese military did not surrender, did not follow Geneva/Hague Convention, tortured military and civilians-alike... should I say more? America is not always the bad country - Ciao, L (Veteran)
Military Police Town Patrolling
Truman must responsibility about atom bomb
Ah Albert Einstein you were such a great man lol
Einstein did NOT approve of the A-bombings of Japan (neither did Oppenheimer and all the other atomic scientists). If you think Einstein was a great man, then accept his wisdom, you hypocrite.
Einstein had two things to do with the atomic bomb. He defined the relationship between energy and matter and signed a letter co-written by Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to Roosevelt urging him to pursue nuclear technology - that's it.
Why do you say that? And your point is?... Ciao, L
Einstein was a far greater man than you can comprehend. He was a pacifist and abhorred war but he knew that if we didn't develop the bomb first, our enemies would.
It's a misconception that Einstein invented the atomic bomb. He didn't. Actually at the beginning he thought that nukes are "impossible" just like reactors. What's more: when the bombs were dropped and the news came in about the casualties he was against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon.
Interesting, more interested in engineering chaos, than human life.
glorious - we need modern stuff, lots of dashcams in moscow.
Stupid comment
I wish we had the real audio.
Because this is hollywood nonsense.
The nuclear bombs were absolutely unnecessary.
Go big or go home
Really? Then you might want to read two books. The first is "140 Days to Hiroshima," and the second is "Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire." Both books will disabuse you of that statement. The fact you want to ignore is that in 1945, and especially the summer of 1945, the central reality is that how and when the war would end were in the Japanese leaders’ hands. They refused to surrender until two atomic bombs were used. Russia entering the war had been anticipated by Japan since February of 1945, so the Russian entry into China was a factor, but the major factor.
Even more unnecessary would be the fight to the last man with an invasion of the homeland and a commensurate loss of allied forces. If this same fighting principle was used by the Imperial Army for distant Japanese conquests, it is generally understood to be even more applicable to Japan proper. With complete national destruction, the Japanese would still be rebuilding their cities today.
The t military targets that they list here did not exist they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki even though it was cloudy they didn't know where they was aiming at and Hiroshima they dropped it right on top of a school
Best place to be is far far away, or right under it.
murderers
What a ridiculous and uninformed thing to say.
Another blast will happen if our lifetime..someone somewhere has written our fate..if someone like trump desides to use who can stop him
Oh really. The retail propaganda networks worked on you. It's the main streamers who cause wars. Trump won't light off nukes. Some insane dictator will (CCP, your allies).
@@soco13466 he wanted to nuke hurricanes im sure he would have found a reason to set one off probably for 4th of july if he could
@A ur moms an idiot for having ur trumper ass...trump doesnt want to start a war and didnt have to cuz he wants a trump tower in NK russia and syria..
@David Lance fuk that fuk the left i just want to find trumpers to fuk up
@Aare you calling Dr. Jill Biden a prostitute? I know you can't be referring to Atty. Kamala Harris? You people are lower than pond scum.