Thank you for this upload. 66 to 63 years ago my parents and me were exposed to 20+ atomic bombs that were detonated in Nevada. These radiations destroyed my parents by cancer and by catastrophic organ failure. Almost every one I knew, born in Southern Utah died of lukemia. I lived. I don't know why I lived. I'm 65 years old, and I was exposed to 20+ nuclear bombs. I have never had any type of cancer. My thyroid & pancreas was damaged. Why am I alive?
@@j.2047 What scares me is that I might be some kind of a mutant. I had three sons and they seemed normal enough. I was told to watch their teeth apparently teeth come in at all sorts of wired angles in the children of Japanese from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I have extra teeth but all my kids had normal teeth. Thank God.
It's too bad most people think that these are the effects of modern nuclear weapons, these first blasts were mere firecrackers compared to what is now available.
@Bonnie Winter I never said the there wasn't nuclear radiation. I said the blast itself is not nearly as big as the ones today, the blasts then were only in the 10's of kilotons where modern ones are anywhere from 100's kilotons to about a 1000 kilotons or 1 megaton with the biggest ever being 50 megatons.
It's necessary to realize that the energy of nuclear explosion is dispersed into a sphere having certain radius and volume. The radius then determines the distance from the hypocenter where certain damage is caused. Imagine that the volume represents the energy of the explosion. As we know, volume of a sphere is equal to π•r^3•4/3, where r is the radius. This simple mathematics tells us that the volume is directly proportional not to the radius itself, but to the radius cubed. If the radius increases ten times, then the volume rises one thousand times (10^3=1000). Therefore, if yield of the explosion is increased from 10kt to 1Mt, i.e. one hundred times, the radius at which there will be the same damage caused will increase not 100 times, but cubed root of 100 times, that is around 4.6 times.
My father was with the first Army troops that occupied Hiroshima after the bomb. Many in his Infantry division later died of cancer over the years, as did my father. "Be kind to all creatures, that is the true religion" - Buddha
The devastation was horrid. However, Japan had killed many of our men at Pearl Harbor. And were terribly cruel to Americsn pows they captured. They started a war and we ended it. I am sorry for all who died. Perhaps a nation should not start an unprovoked war.
I love watching these old Periscope Films I wish they still did these! I know that we now have “Fluctus” which is (I think) a military film division that does a bunch of shorts but I have yet to see a full length film version of any of there topics?!?
At ground zero here one second and gone the next second. Just that quick. Probably no trace that a person ever existed. They should not have bombed Pearl Harbor.
USA gov. says: Protect Yourselves! soldiers: hunker down in foxholes students: hide under your desks citizens outside: cover with anything ex. newspaper families: make shelters in your backyards or basements with 2 weeks of supplies USA gov. also says: We'll protect ourselves! Underground Shelters miles underground & inside the earth Stocked with YEARS of supplies
I saw an interview with some of the soldiers used in the Nevada tests. One of them talked about the initial briefing where they were told to look away and stay in the trenches until given the all clear. They were told it was safe. He said he would have had more confidence in the speech if the guy giving it wasn't going to be a couple miles away, in a concrete bunker during the test.
We developed the atomic bomb just months before Germany did. We were fortunate that we did. Einstein and the other s were luck. Before we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we flew over both cities dropping tons on leaflets in Japanese telling them that we were going to drop a powerful bomb so please leave the cities. In response, the Japanese government sent out radio messages to the people that it wasn’t going to happen and to stay put. Of course the deviation was massive. In the long run, it was the atomic bomb that brought Japan to its knees and it’s estimated it saved more than 100k American soldiers. We didn’t start it but we ended it. I’m from Oak Ridge Tennessee, the Secret City, where the first nuclear reactor was built and where the U235 was enriched for the atomic bomb.
@@sciteach10195 I saw a show that claimed Hitler didn't see or understand how one Bomb Could help him win the war. So even though they had the technology first. He didn't put resources into building the bomb.
The Bomb made airbursts more devastating than any ground bursts . The over pressures of just 1 psi in the shock wave kills about 50% . Nuke over pressures are off of the chart and then there is the Mach Stem where the pressure wave that bounced of the ground meets up with the original wave and kills everyone where they meet
the second bomb dropped on japan was an air burst, it detonated some 1500 feet above the city of Nagasaki and suffered much more damage than Hiroshima.
24:46 and how many of those people are civilians that had nothing to do with the war. people who are victims simply because of where they were born. Nagasaki made sense, it had munitions factories etc. but Hiroshima feels like it was either a straight up experiment that had the war as its excuse for happening, or they thought that Japans leaders would seriously be bothered by losing all those civilians, forgetting that this is 1940's japan we are talking about. a place where if you were against the war, as a lot of the civilians were, you could be arrested just for saying so and be branded a traitor. civilians are classed as the things that those above see as nothing but numbers, barely even existing back then. if they had hit Nagasaki first instead, i think that the war would have ended then and Hiroshima's civilians would have lived out the rest of their days for decades to come.
In total war, civilians can be considered as important to the conduct of the war as troops on the battlefield. A civilian working in factory producing war materials makes it possible for an army to continue to fight. Inherent in the concept of total war is understanding that the way to reduce casualties is to end a war as quickly as possible, which means ending an opponent's ability to wage war, which means the destruction of factories, workers, and the morale of the civilian population.
Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's conventional bombing raids on Japan, and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test the effects of an atomic bomb. It was also an important military base. Furthermore, the US was conducting mass firebombing of Japanese cities that killed far more civilians than either nuclear bomb. The Hiroshima fatalities, as viewed at that time, seemed far less sobering than they do now to our modern eyes and sensitivities.
@@BuddyLee23 i'm usually pretty resilient to stuff like this. especially when i was younger. i think we all are like that when younger, we dont really think about things like this that much, not the people anyway. its usually just something you learn in history class and thats it. but ever since my sister had my niece, i have totally changed, and when i think about things like this in the past, or things now like afghanistan, and haiti and stuff. i can't help thinking about the kids, and my brain being the ass it is, always seems to put her in those situations and i'm like ''if that happened to me and mine'' kinda thing. My niece is ten now, and my little bro just had a baby, and even though i dont have kids. kids change your perspective on life a lot man. I'm constantly thinking about how i hope they don't have to go through things like that, and wondering what shit they *will* be going through in the future with the way things are lately. I had forgot about the firebombing. and hiroshima being chosen as a good place to test atomic bomb effects. damn. see, us on the lower floors get the brunt of everything all because the guys in the penthouses cant get on.
@@jamesrogers47 the factories make sense, so by hitting say, where the civilians live, you are in essence destroying the workforce that helps to create the munitions that fuel the war. its just sucky that those people, most of them, are probably only doing that job, not because they give a shit about the war, ut as a way to feed their families. in fact i reckon a good 80 to 90% of civilians want just that. to make sure they have enough food on the table and a roof over their heads so they can just enjoy living life. i hope we never have to see wars like these again, but with the way things are lately, it kinda *feels* like theres another on the way, it could just be me, but i don't know. Can you imagine if the world went to war with each other again, and every soldier and civilian just went ''no, not doing it''. and not one world leader or military leader could get one civilian or soldier to pick up a gun. i know thats an impossibility, but how crazy would that be to see?
Whilst the the use of the atomic bombs upon Japan was a terrible event and caused massive casualties and destruction it was, unfortunately, necessary to prevent a far greater loss of life, not just for the allied forces but for the Japanese on a greater level that would make the campaign in Europe (not counting the Holocaust) look like a bar brawl on a Saturday night, and even the horrendous casualties suffered during the rest of the pacific campaign pale by comparison to the projected casualties if the allies had to invade the Japanese mainland, the unfair criticism of the allies by other countries and individuals in the aftermath of WWII, even from within the Manhattan project team and the political leaders of the allies, should never have happened, the decision to use these terrible weapons must have have weighed heavily on the president of the United States for the rest of his life, a decision not taken lightly and thankfully no leader of a nuclear weapons power has had to make since, and let’s hope none ever has to. If anyone is wondering why I have been ranting on about the morality of the decision to use the nuclear weapons upon Japan when this film is about the the effect of nuclear weapons, I just feel it is something that needs to be expressed whenever they are the subject of a film, whether it’s historical, instructional or fictional doesn’t matter, as a serviceman I spent 8 years serving on 2 frontline units at the height of the Cold War, and we were under no illusions that if the “ballon had gone up” we, our families, allies and civilian population would probably not have lived, the forces facing the USSR were little more than a delaying force and that the likelihood was that nuclear weapons would probably have been used sooner rather than later, and that thought scared the hell out of me and my wife, and I presume a huge number of others, but, if the USSR was to be stopped from overrunning Europe and then the world they were our best chance of convincing them it was a bad idea, and the same thing applied in 1945, those two weapons showed Japan that it was a very bad idea to carry on fighting, and in the process saved not hundreds of thousands of lives but millions, yes millions, especially if they did what they planned to do, they expected every single man, woman and child capable of wielding a weapon to fight to the last bullet, bomb or weapon available, nuclear weapons are terrifying and terrible weapons, but they can actually save lives, and that is why I rant on.
Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. What your suggesting has been all but completely debunked at this point and is nothing more than a selling point to the public. The Japanese were in fact ready to surrender and the US military, having invested a kings ransom in the Manhattan Project, were hungry to demonstrate this newfound imperial force. This was an inevitability. Portrayals and accounts of reluctance after the fact are nothing more than pure propaganda.
It is very unlikely that Japan was seriously going to repel a land invasion of their motherland. At that point, they were willing to surrender on the one condition that they could keep their emperor. The US did not accept that-they settled for nothing less than unconditional surrender.
!!!!!!what a boat load of MALARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!! INSANITY. There is ZERO reason to use nuclear bombs. Ever. Take out the HEAD. Eliminate the GOVERNMENT. Then control the people. Mass Slaughter of Innocents is an evil only -satan himself- could have dreamed up and only his stooges would do.
@@jryan2552 Repel? No. But they would have turned it into a meat grinder. Look at the casualties in taking the outer islands. Commanders did the macabre math of war. How many men am I willing to lose in order to complete an objective? They almost always go with whatever solution is the most efficient. Sometimes other factors like the number of civilians likely killed are taken into account, but not with the same weight. If using atomic bombs results in an effective loss of 0 every commander will pick it, every time.
depends on what you mean by "like these" there are plenty of old films about how to survive a nuclear attack, personally i enjoyed "The Day Called X" and the british "Protect and Survive" series, and i'd recommend The Big Picture's "Individual Protection Against Atomic Attack" and the 1959 film "Fallout: When and How to Protect Yourself" if you mean the medical effects specifically, i don't know of any other films like that
my uncle and my granpa died in Hiroshima by A-bomb this film tells too many lies and hiding too many information about how frightening for the effect of radiation what a happy brain...
This is a statement from a veteran. A soldier, who fought for his country during WW II made the public statement, " I've seen the plants at Oak Ridge, and Hanford. They were not built to make just a bomb or two, or even three for that matter. " " I've seen the production, and assembly lines that have forged, and poured casings for these hellish devices, and I know they did not cast just one or two, or even three bombs." " They were built to make hundreds." " Mans eminent doom, and total destruction of the earth, lies in the minds of those who would allow such devices as these to be produced." " One day, perhaps at zero hour tomorrow, someone will set the spark off, and death, fast and slow, will be pronounced upon all animals, fish, and man in a short space of time." " The lucky ones will be vaporized in the first three millionths of a second when that destruction day comes." " Pity the living, pray for the dying, and celebrate with the dead. the end has come." I am sure when he fought for his country, he did invisioned coming home, and enjoying the fruits of his labor. I also believe he was scared by what he saw, thinking that at any moment, the world could change, and not for the better. He did not see how fast the H-Bomb was invented, had he saw the H-Bomb tests, he probably would have thought the end is closer than I though.
Bobby Goetz No bobby Boy.... We have had many times more than that, enough to destroy the entire world six times over. This was not from a movie line for everyones information. This statement was made by a WWII Vet who was under authority of General Groves. He made this statement of his own free will to a reporter less than three months after his honorable discharge that was issued in 1945, shortly after Japan surrendered. It is not to be thumbed at, nor given under duress. He made it freely and also under possibility of court martial for making a statement to the press about the proliferation of nuclear weapons.. Look it up, You may find it if you look hard enough, and add to your knowledge, or you are free to remain as ignorant as you are.
Geopolitical realities are not fun, but we must deal with the world as it is, not as we should wish it to be. For any one nation, with all the nobility and selflessness to disarm its entire nuclear armament for the good of mankind, is to leave that nation as the mere vassal state of those who choose not to be so charitable, as those that retain their nuclear weapons may vanquish those without at any time they so choose. Sadly, for many of the nations that now have them, nuclear weapons are unfortunate necessity.
If I needed a PhD thesis topic for the disciplines of psychology, interpersonal or mass communication, sociology, history, and even maybe linguistics, I would put something together that tries to quantify the individual and/or societal effects of two full generations of Americans living their lives from early childhood or even birth, into adulthood at least until early middle age very acutely aware of that the could be horrifically bombed and annihilated at any time. It would seem to me that to live with this knowledge, and to know that even the home, the place that's supposed to feel completely safe when one is younger, is just as vulnerable; then to have regular reminders, which understandably would always have a tone of seriousness and dire warning, such as a film like this, or a duck and cover drill at school--I have to think living one's whole life with this in the back of one's mind would have consequences. Maybe if the Mexican Beer Virus Endless Spring Break of 2020 keeps being extended I'll get bored enough to actually hash out the details and put together some hypotheses, just for fun...then sell them so some desperate returning college student whose brain is still filled with cobwebs and cant come up with his or her own original ideas. Which was how I made walking around money when I was actually in college.
Duck and cover. I remember it well. In California it doubled for earthquakes. Regardless, survivability as an after affect of a nuclear attack is a pathetic joke.
Just think, the leaders of Japan figured that they could just stall for time and the US would grow weary of the War and settle with some kind of agreement. Even though we made 100% clear that we wanted Unconditional Surrender. Plans and troop movements were already being made by the US to begin the invasion of the Japanese Mainland. This would have been a horrific war that would have extended WWII to 1948, some think 1950. If you think these two bombs were bad you have no idea how Medieval it would have gotten if we had to invade Japan's Home Islands.
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Thank you for this upload. 66 to 63 years ago my parents and me were exposed to 20+ atomic bombs that were detonated in Nevada. These radiations destroyed my parents by cancer and by catastrophic organ failure. Almost every one I knew, born in Southern Utah died of lukemia. I lived. I don't know why I lived. I'm 65 years old, and I was exposed to 20+ nuclear bombs. I have never had any type of cancer. My thyroid & pancreas was damaged.
Why am I alive?
Because the Lord loves you.
Fatal fate has had that you live. I'm sorry to hear your story, but I'm glad I could hear it from you (:
@@barbaramccoy6448 I hope so.
@@j.2047 What scares me is that I might be some kind of a mutant. I had three sons and they seemed normal enough. I was told to watch their teeth apparently teeth come in at all sorts of wired angles in the children of Japanese from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I have extra teeth but all my kids had normal teeth. Thank God.
@@silvertiger2801 That's nice to hear. I bet they have inherited the same strenght that kept you fine all this time (:
It's too bad most people think that these are the effects of modern nuclear weapons, these first blasts were mere firecrackers compared to what is now available.
That's true. But nothing compared to what we had in stockpile I the 60's
Not true , size of the bombs affects are not radically different , physics restricts this type of linear scaling .
@Bonnie Winter I never said the there wasn't nuclear radiation. I said the blast itself is not nearly as big as the ones today, the blasts then were only in the 10's of kilotons where modern ones are anywhere from 100's kilotons to about a 1000 kilotons or 1 megaton with the biggest ever being 50 megatons.
Sorry didn't mean to hit the down thumb.
It's necessary to realize that the energy of nuclear explosion is dispersed into a sphere having certain radius and volume. The radius then determines the distance from the hypocenter where certain damage is caused. Imagine that the volume represents the energy of the explosion. As we know, volume of a sphere is equal to π•r^3•4/3, where r is the radius. This simple mathematics tells us that the volume is directly proportional not to the radius itself, but to the radius cubed. If the radius increases ten times, then the volume rises one thousand times (10^3=1000). Therefore, if yield of the explosion is increased from 10kt to 1Mt, i.e. one hundred times, the radius at which there will be the same damage caused will increase not 100 times, but cubed root of 100 times, that is around 4.6 times.
Thank you for posting this. People tend to forget or ignore the human cost of a nuclear war.
When a single second becomes almost an eternity
I wish deadly disaster like this should never happen.
It seems that the take away is that, if an A-Bomb is dropped on a city, almost everyone who can see or hear the explosion are mortally screwed.
My father was with the first Army troops that occupied Hiroshima after the bomb. Many in his Infantry division later died of cancer over the years, as did my father. "Be kind to all creatures, that is the true religion" - Buddha
The devastation was horrid. However, Japan had killed many of our men at Pearl Harbor. And were terribly cruel to Americsn pows they captured. They started a war and we ended it. I am sorry for all who died. Perhaps a nation should not start an unprovoked war.
why would you occupy ground zero...
you mean clean up?..
losers clean up..
the Japanese won
obviously
missed the point U did... @@CynthiaLSimmons
Why don’t they make documentaries this informative anymore in 2021? 😢
The pop is too stupid to understand or would deny every fact, while inhaling on their drug of choice.
We wouldn’t survive today. No need to educate people on a situation they can’t live through.
They don’t want to offend anyone
"Not my circus, not my monkey;" translated from the Polish idiom: "nie mój cyrk, nie moje malpy." TL;DR: Not my problem.
@@theanonymouscommenter5608 Most people would survive, so not educating them is negligent.
Its nice to know that building is a professional.
"Climatic Explosion" no wonder we love it.
This video is only for smart folks.
I think the word is, "climactic".
Anyone here in 2054?
00:33 OMG. What a coincidence. I'm watching this on 6th Aug. Those poor souls.
I love watching these old Periscope Films I wish they still did these! I know that we now have “Fluctus” which is (I think) a military film division that does a bunch of shorts but I have yet to see a full length film version of any of there topics?!?
It seems a better title for this film would have been The Effects of the Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Radiation on Medical Services.
When it happens, not if, I want to be right at ground zero!
Too late, your devices all are polluting you with radiation
Shit. I was hoping to live forever.
Me too.
At ground zero here one second and gone the next second. Just that quick. Probably no trace that a person ever existed. They should not have bombed Pearl Harbor.
Very interesting ☮
Who’s watching this in March 2022? 👀✋🏼 Watching The Manhattan Project in high school gave form to this earlier infomercial.
when the come out from underground there will be NOTHING to come back to
Yea that's why you make your bunker.
USA gov. says:
Protect Yourselves!
soldiers: hunker down in foxholes
students: hide under your desks
citizens outside: cover with anything ex. newspaper
families: make shelters in your backyards or basements with 2 weeks of supplies
USA gov. also says:
We'll protect ourselves!
Underground Shelters miles underground & inside the earth
Stocked with
YEARS of supplies
I saw an interview with some of the soldiers used in the Nevada tests. One of them talked about the initial briefing where they were told to look away and stay in the trenches until given the all clear. They were told it was safe. He said he would have had more confidence in the speech if the guy giving it wasn't going to be a couple miles away, in a concrete bunker during the test.
It's disgusting what human beings are willing to do to each other
We developed the atomic bomb just months before Germany did. We were fortunate that we did. Einstein and the other s were luck. Before we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we flew over both cities dropping tons on leaflets in Japanese telling them that we were going to drop a powerful bomb so please leave the cities. In response, the Japanese government sent out radio messages to the people that it wasn’t going to happen and to stay put. Of course the deviation was massive. In the long run, it was the atomic bomb that brought Japan to its knees and it’s estimated it saved more than 100k American soldiers. We didn’t start it but we ended it. I’m from Oak Ridge Tennessee, the Secret City, where the first nuclear reactor was built and where the U235 was enriched for the atomic bomb.
@@sciteach10195 I saw a show that claimed Hitler didn't see or understand how one Bomb Could help him win the war. So even though they had the technology first. He didn't put resources into building the bomb.
The Bomb made airbursts more devastating than any ground bursts . The over pressures of just 1 psi in the shock wave kills about 50% . Nuke over pressures are off of the chart and then there is the Mach Stem where the pressure wave that bounced of the ground meets up with the original wave and kills everyone where they meet
Air bursts produce more blast effect, ground bursts produce more fallout.
Don't be silly.
the second bomb dropped on japan was an air burst, it detonated some 1500 feet above the city of Nagasaki and suffered much more damage than Hiroshima.
24:46 and how many of those people are civilians that had nothing to do with the war. people who are victims simply because of where they were born. Nagasaki made sense, it had munitions factories etc. but Hiroshima feels like it was either a straight up experiment that had the war as its excuse for happening, or they thought that Japans leaders would seriously be bothered by losing all those civilians, forgetting that this is 1940's japan we are talking about. a place where if you were against the war, as a lot of the civilians were, you could be arrested just for saying so and be branded a traitor. civilians are classed as the things that those above see as nothing but numbers, barely even existing back then. if they had hit Nagasaki first instead, i think that the war would have ended then and Hiroshima's civilians would have lived out the rest of their days for decades to come.
In total war, civilians can be considered as important to the conduct of the war as troops on the battlefield. A civilian working in factory producing war materials makes it possible for an army to continue to fight. Inherent in the concept of total war is understanding that the way to reduce casualties is to end a war as quickly as possible, which means ending an opponent's ability to wage war, which means the destruction of factories, workers, and the morale of the civilian population.
Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's conventional bombing raids on Japan, and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test the effects of an atomic bomb. It was also an important military base. Furthermore, the US was conducting mass firebombing of Japanese cities that killed far more civilians than either nuclear bomb. The Hiroshima fatalities, as viewed at that time, seemed far less sobering than they do now to our modern eyes and sensitivities.
@@BuddyLee23 i'm usually pretty resilient to stuff like this. especially when i was younger. i think we all are like that when younger, we dont really think about things like this that much, not the people anyway. its usually just something you learn in history class and thats it. but ever since my sister had my niece, i have totally changed, and when i think about things like this in the past, or things now like afghanistan, and haiti and stuff. i can't help thinking about the kids, and my brain being the ass it is, always seems to put her in those situations and i'm like ''if that happened to me and mine'' kinda thing. My niece is ten now, and my little bro just had a baby, and even though i dont have kids. kids change your perspective on life a lot man. I'm constantly thinking about how i hope they don't have to go through things like that, and wondering what shit they *will* be going through in the future with the way things are lately. I had forgot about the firebombing. and hiroshima being chosen as a good place to test atomic bomb effects. damn. see, us on the lower floors get the brunt of everything all because the guys in the penthouses cant get on.
@@jamesrogers47 the factories make sense, so by hitting say, where the civilians live, you are in essence destroying the workforce that helps to create the munitions that fuel the war. its just sucky that those people, most of them, are probably only doing that job, not because they give a shit about the war, ut as a way to feed their families. in fact i reckon a good 80 to 90% of civilians want just that. to make sure they have enough food on the table and a roof over their heads so they can just enjoy living life. i hope we never have to see wars like these again, but with the way things are lately, it kinda *feels* like theres another on the way, it could just be me, but i don't know. Can you imagine if the world went to war with each other again, and every soldier and civilian just went ''no, not doing it''. and not one world leader or military leader could get one civilian or soldier to pick up a gun. i know thats an impossibility, but how crazy would that be to see?
Whilst the the use of the atomic bombs upon Japan was a terrible event and caused massive casualties and destruction it was, unfortunately, necessary to prevent a far greater loss of life, not just for the allied forces but for the Japanese on a greater level that would make the campaign in Europe (not counting the Holocaust) look like a bar brawl on a Saturday night, and even the horrendous casualties suffered during the rest of the pacific campaign pale by comparison to the projected casualties if the allies had to invade the Japanese mainland, the unfair criticism of the allies by other countries and individuals in the aftermath of WWII, even from within the Manhattan project team and the political leaders of the allies, should never have happened, the decision to use these terrible weapons must have have weighed heavily on the president of the United States for the rest of his life, a decision not taken lightly and thankfully no leader of a nuclear weapons power has had to make since, and let’s hope none ever has to.
If anyone is wondering why I have been ranting on about the morality of the decision to use the nuclear weapons upon Japan when this film is about the the effect of nuclear weapons, I just feel it is something that needs to be expressed whenever they are the subject of a film, whether it’s historical, instructional or fictional doesn’t matter, as a serviceman I spent 8 years serving on 2 frontline units at the height of the Cold War, and we were under no illusions that if the “ballon had gone up” we, our families, allies and civilian population would probably not have lived, the forces facing the USSR were little more than a delaying force and that the likelihood was that nuclear weapons would probably have been used sooner rather than later, and that thought scared the hell out of me and my wife, and I presume a huge number of others, but, if the USSR was to be stopped from overrunning Europe and then the world they were our best chance of convincing them it was a bad idea, and the same thing applied in 1945, those two weapons showed Japan that it was a very bad idea to carry on fighting, and in the process saved not hundreds of thousands of lives but millions, yes millions, especially if they did what they planned to do, they expected every single man, woman and child capable of wielding a weapon to fight to the last bullet, bomb or weapon available, nuclear weapons are terrifying and terrible weapons, but they can actually save lives, and that is why I rant on.
Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. What your suggesting has been all but completely debunked at this point and is nothing more than a selling point to the public. The Japanese were in fact ready to surrender and the US military, having invested a kings ransom in the Manhattan Project, were hungry to demonstrate this newfound imperial force. This was an inevitability. Portrayals and accounts of reluctance after the fact are nothing more than pure propaganda.
Dropping them Uranio bois on dem rice fields are the best decision US ever made
Matter of fact it wasn't enough .
It is very unlikely that Japan was seriously going to repel a land invasion of their motherland. At that point, they were willing to surrender on the one condition that they could keep their emperor. The US did not accept that-they settled for nothing less than unconditional surrender.
!!!!!!what a boat load of MALARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
INSANITY.
There is ZERO reason to use nuclear bombs.
Ever.
Take out the HEAD.
Eliminate the GOVERNMENT.
Then control the people.
Mass Slaughter of Innocents is an evil only -satan himself- could have dreamed up and only his stooges would do.
@@jryan2552 Repel? No. But they would have turned it into a meat grinder. Look at the casualties in taking the outer islands.
Commanders did the macabre math of war. How many men am I willing to lose in order to complete an objective? They almost always go with whatever solution is the most efficient. Sometimes other factors like the number of civilians likely killed are taken into account, but not with the same weight.
If using atomic bombs results in an effective loss of 0 every commander will pick it, every time.
Are there more educational films like these?
depends on what you mean by "like these"
there are plenty of old films about how to survive a nuclear attack, personally i enjoyed "The Day Called X" and the british "Protect and Survive" series, and i'd recommend The Big Picture's "Individual Protection Against Atomic Attack" and the 1959 film "Fallout: When and How to Protect Yourself"
if you mean the medical effects specifically, i don't know of any other films like that
We had the power to end this horrible war. Let's hope it ends there.
my uncle and my granpa died in Hiroshima by A-bomb
this film tells too many lies and hiding too many information about how frightening for the effect of radiation
what a happy brain...
I know someone would have made it but I think it should never have been invented and never used !
This is a statement from a veteran. A soldier, who fought for his country during WW II made the public statement, " I've seen the plants at Oak Ridge, and Hanford. They were not built to make just a bomb or two, or even three for that matter. " " I've seen the production, and assembly lines that have forged, and poured casings for these hellish devices, and I know they did not cast just one or two, or even three bombs." " They were built to make hundreds." " Mans eminent doom, and total destruction of the earth, lies in the minds of those who would allow such devices as these to be produced." " One day, perhaps at zero hour tomorrow, someone will set the spark off, and death, fast and slow, will be pronounced upon all animals, fish, and man in a short space of time." " The lucky ones will be vaporized in the first three millionths of a second when that destruction day comes." " Pity the living, pray for the dying, and celebrate with the dead. the end has come." I am sure when he fought for his country, he did invisioned coming home, and enjoying the fruits of his labor. I also believe he was scared by what he saw, thinking that at any moment, the world could change, and not for the better. He did not see how fast the H-Bomb was invented, had he saw the H-Bomb tests, he probably would have thought the end is closer than I though.
..... no shit. We made I think around 40,000. You think saying this makes you seem smart ... or wise?
@William Wright you might even be stupider than the OP. What nationality are you? English is def not your first language
Bobby Goetz No bobby Boy.... We have had many times more than that, enough to destroy the entire world six times over. This was not from a movie line for everyones information. This statement was made by a WWII Vet who was under authority of General Groves. He made this statement of his own free will to a reporter less than three months after his honorable discharge that was issued in 1945, shortly after Japan surrendered. It is not to be thumbed at, nor given under duress. He made it freely and also under possibility of court martial for making a statement to the press about the proliferation of nuclear weapons.. Look it up, You may find it if you look hard enough, and add to your knowledge, or you are free to remain as ignorant as you are.
Geopolitical realities are not fun, but we must deal with the world as it is, not as we should wish it to be. For any one nation, with all the nobility and selflessness to disarm its entire nuclear armament for the good of mankind, is to leave that nation as the mere vassal state of those who choose not to be so charitable, as those that retain their nuclear weapons may vanquish those without at any time they so choose. Sadly, for many of the nations that now have them, nuclear weapons are unfortunate necessity.
If I needed a PhD thesis topic for the disciplines of psychology, interpersonal or mass communication, sociology, history, and even maybe linguistics, I would put something together that tries to quantify the individual and/or societal effects of two full generations of Americans living their lives from early childhood or even birth, into adulthood at least until early middle age very acutely aware of that the could be horrifically bombed and annihilated at any time. It would seem to me that to live with this knowledge, and to know that even the home, the place that's supposed to feel completely safe when one is younger, is just as vulnerable; then to have regular reminders, which understandably would always have a tone of seriousness and dire warning, such as a film like this, or a duck and cover drill at school--I have to think living one's whole life with this in the back of one's mind would have consequences. Maybe if the Mexican Beer Virus Endless Spring Break of 2020 keeps being extended I'll get bored enough to actually hash out the details and put together some hypotheses, just for fun...then sell them so some desperate returning college student whose brain is still filled with cobwebs and cant come up with his or her own original ideas. Which was how I made walking around money when I was actually in college.
Wow you're so cool, holy shit.
Duck and cover. I remember it well. In California it doubled for earthquakes. Regardless, survivability as an after affect of a nuclear attack is a pathetic joke.
They reused the same footage in San Francisco (1936)
Don't forget it took actual pleading by the actual Japanese Emperor to have his military generals surrendor, after both atomic bombs.
Did they try to shoot down the B-29 with anti-aircraft guns?
No.
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7:45 wtf? Alpha particles are positive and bend towards the negative electric field.
Please elaborate
Lol I like the pilot waving buhbye
Diaper joe be like
Stupid comment.
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Atoms don't look like that.
Next time you see one...squint really hard - you might be surprised...
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Just think, the leaders of Japan figured that they could just stall for time and the US would grow weary of the War and settle with some kind of agreement. Even though we made 100% clear that we wanted Unconditional Surrender.
Plans and troop movements were already being made by the US to begin the invasion of the Japanese Mainland. This would have been a horrific war that would have extended WWII to 1948, some think 1950.
If you think these two bombs were bad you have no idea how Medieval it would have gotten if we had to invade Japan's Home Islands.
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All fake. Read Miles Mathis.
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How can you say you own this film, when it was made by the US government? And other you tubers are showing it. Are overstepping your rights?
Our company owns copyright to many films in our collection while others are in the public domain. The rights vary from film to film. We can and do prevent other UA-camrs from re-posting films over which we have ownership. I don't know about overstepping our rights, but here's the real issue: this film may have been made by taxpayers, but the U.S. Government in its infinite wisdom, threw it away. Tens of thousands of films were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters.
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@@PeriscopeFilm thanks for answering, I was curious about that too. I have a weird fascination with these old films, thanks for making them available!
@@PeriscopeFilm thanks for preserving and posting.