Rare footage of Nagasaki atomic bombing

[yuiyoshida]

[enlightenment]

1. Thanks for posting, yuiyoshida.

I've not seen the entirety of the first video before - only a section from about the 6 minute mark.

Every time I think about this, I hear the voice of Kermit Beahan, describing the moment the bomb was released. It sends a cold chill up my spine.

“I suppose it was when the clouds opened up over the target at Nagasaki. The target was there, pretty as a picture. I made the run, let the bomb go. That was my greatest thrill.”

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Decorating the device before it goes off to slaughter civilians for no reason at all.

I can't apologize enough for what my country did. Whatever the merits of the bombing of Hiroshima, the bombing of Nagasaki was without any shred of legitimate justification at all.

[DhhD]

3. History: In between the two bombs, Japan refused to surrender, knowing that bombing would

continue. How sad for both countrymen. Some years later, Korea did surrender as ground warfare was changing to bombing.

[Jim Lane]

10. The U.S. did not wait to see what effect the Russian attack would have.

Nothing would have been lost by waiting a week. The planned invasion of the home islands was still several weeks away.

[PatrynXX]

5. don't think that was decoration

likely a toxic seal they put on as it was along the joints

[tomm2thumbs]

11. I think

they are referring to the signing and writing on the outside of the bomb shown in the 2nd video using a black pen

[Fred Sanders]

4. The Japanese would would not believe America to be so inhuman as to kill tens of thousands of

innocents yet again, they were wrong about that, then they surrendered.

Any other interpretation is a cruel joke, echoing the human shields joke and inherent racism used by some to shield the guilt of war criminals.

When did we accept targeting of civilians, directly or with impunity, as the cost of war? Only warriors fought warriors on the battlefield until the age of modern, inhuman warfare.

America would like everyone to forget about Nagasaki....America did it....again???

Utterly nuclear indefensible.

[drynberg]

6. Yep, Fred, this is truly shameful and indefensible.

This was 3 years before my birth and I am utterly shamed by this act of barbarism.

[Oakenshield]

9. You talk as if Japan didn't also kill civilians.

The things Japan did to China during that time were absolutely monstrous, and far more horrible than the atomic bomb.

[Liberal_from_va34]

12. Yes yes, because Imperial Japan was such a nice place back then, wasn't it?

After all, it's not like that country wasn't busy conducting Nazi-esque human experimentation in the famous Unit 731. And it's not like the Japanese military didn't murder around 300000 women and children in Nanking. Or that the Japanese military wasn't kidnapping hundreds of thousands of young women from China, Korea, and other Asian nations to serve as military sex slaves. Or that around 30 million people in Asia had died as a result of Japanese aggression up to that point. It's all the fault of the US, right? Sheesh.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Thank you for posting

My mother was 15 when this happened and always mentioned that the U.S. was "losing the war" and this was about all that was left to do to end it.

[chervilant]

8. The propaganda remains offensive

to this day. I recommend reading LaFeber's The American Age. US Foreign Policy is grossly, deliberately misrepresented by the media and our school books.

[Fred Sanders]

13. The propaganda remains offensive and effective on some as you can see from some responses.

My school books were not all published in one country.