Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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There are probably many things you don’t know about the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. For instance, did you know that the atomic bombing of Japan inspired the creation of Godzilla? How about the fact that the bombs’ codenames were take from “The Maltese Falcon”? Or that a group of gingko trees actually survived the nuclear blast? WatchMojo counts down ten fascinating facts about the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II.
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#10: The Bombs Birthed Godzilla
#9: Ginkgo Trees in the Area Survived (And Are Still Growing Today)
#8: The Hiroshima Peace Flame Will Burn Until All Nuclear Weapons Are Destroyed
#7: Nagasaki Was Not the Original Target
#6: The Bombs’ Codenames Were Inspired by “The Maltese Falcon”
#5: The First Flower to Bloom After the Bombing Became Hiroshima’s Official Flower
#4: The Japanese Detected the Bomber
#3, #2 & #1???
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There was a lady in my hometown who survived the Hiroshima bombing. She said the wind happened to be blowing in the other direction which kept the radiation from poisoning her. She was outside the city when it happened. My granddad used to teach history at the local university and she would sometimes come in to tell her story. Her grandson and I are good friends.
She said the wind happened to be blowing in the other direction which kept the radiation from poisoning her.
Wayne Patterson ---- There were no injuries or deaths resulting from radioactive fallout at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The radioactive fallout barely increased radiation exposure levels beyond natural background radiation levels at its worst and decayed within 2 to 3 days back to normal levels. The lack of significant levels of radiation exposure attributable to radioactive fallout was due to the very small quantities of radioactive bomb fuel and the way in which the airbursts did not generate significant additional radioactive nucleotides from the soil and other material on the ground. The radiation sickness suffered by the casualties was due to direct exposure to the prompt radiation emanating directly from the nuclear explosion and fireball. Most of the radiation deaths occurred within 2 to 3 weeks of the exposure. A relatively smaller number of deaths due to leukemia caused by the radiation exposure occurred about 5 years later, and an even smaller fraction of such deaths occurred about ten years later due to solid cancers. No cases have been documented among the population of monitored survivors in which the children of the survivors were affected by the effects of the radiation.
Wind 😂😂😂😂
@@waynepatterson5843
Did you just say there were no deaths due to radioactive fallout in Nagasaki or Hiroshima? And you're being serious? You're not being sarcastic at all?
I feel disgusting for our country doing something like this. We killed 140,000 people innocent people and children this should be taught in American schools like im sure its taught in japan this was a mistake.
@@dswagg585x2 Meanwhile rocks a hanging above the earth. Once you're still alive, no where in this planet is safe. I feel sorry for those people who died in the explosion
She made it sound like Nagasaki, the secondary target, was bombed because Kyoto was taken off the list. Nagasaki was actually bombed because they couldn't get visual confirmation on the primary target, Kokura, due to clouds and smoke.
Yeah idk why she said that I saw it in the learn it from the base vid
Correct
That's because it's WatchMojo and they don't care..
They also forgot to mention that the initial plan was for the RAF to drop an atomic bomb as well
Correct honestly I stopped watching the vid after this and went comments cause this video is more than likely riddled with false information
Your information on Kokura is incorrect. It was the primary target but could not be bombed due to zero visibility. So they had to go to the secondary target Nagasaki.
And then had to drop it by radar!
You’re right!
@@edwardhyde9402 The plane did the bombing approach with radar. The bomb was dropped by the bombardier when he said he had a visual confirmation. The last 30 seconds of the bomb run were done by the bombardier using the bombsight. However, they were prepared to drop the bomb by radar even though their orders stated not to use radar.
And they almost gave up on Nagasaki, too, but sadly for the city the clouds suddenly parted and visibility became clear.
Due to bad visibility, the Nagasaki bomb dropped beside the city.
Well that thing is going to be burning forever..
XMACHOXMANX haha yep
Yeah, it might as well be the real life version of the Eternal Flame of the Village of the Sun in "Fairy Tail."
Aliens are watching for it as a sign to attack
True, even if all the nukes were destroyed, people would still know how to make more.
I should think so. Total nuclear disarmament in my opinion is not a good idea. In an ideal world I guess there would be a UN-owned and maintained nuclear stockpile to deter other countries from reproducing the weapons and to be used in the VERY unlikely events of alien invasion and incoming asteroids and other things. *EDIT:* You could also argue that the use of nukes as a deterrence has kept major countries at peace since '45. The Cold War might have been different without them.
Recently my grandfather passed away, he was a WWII veteran. When we searched through old photos of his, we found out that he was in Japan shortly after the bomb on Nagasaki was dropped. We actually have photos of his when he went through Nagasaki. We're holding onto the photos, it's literally holding a piece of history.
But he never, ever told us about much of anything he did in WWII, so needless to say we were surprised to learn he was in occupied Japan after the bombs were dropped. He was a naval officer and ran communications for the fleet on board the U.S.S. Auburn.
My grandfather was also there after the bombing.
@@mattkeith1180 I wonder if they know eachother
It’s weird to ask but anyway to see them?
It's crazy, our grandfathers could've been friends. Mine was also there, he served on the USS New Mexico. I never really knew him because he developed extremely bad Alzheimer's when I was a kid. I never had a chance to talk to him or hear his story, which kills me as a WW2 history buff. My grandparents were extremely religious and I was shocked to discover that when he died, he had a massive tattoo of a tiger on his back. My grandmother never told us. He got it while stationed in Japan.
I was told that no pictures of his trip existed because film was hard to find. Apparently there was a shortage because film was sensitive to radiation. I can't confirm if this is true or not.
After going there, Hiroshima is honestly one of the most beautiful places on the Earth. The people are so lovely, the area is gorgeous and the entire city is just wonderful to be in. The Hiroshima Peace Park, however, is one of the most heartbreaking places I have ever been. You can feel the sadness and the suffering, it's truly awful.
They brought it on themselves so 🤷
@@random10012 innocent people when the decision is made by their dictator piece of shit dumb fuck
@@random10012 Peaceful citizens going about their lives. None of them had anything to do with Pearl Harbor. But like most wars, the leaders engage and the citizens pay.
Yes they did , they supported the emperor and the military hence the USA had to demilitarize Japanese society.
@@spearfisherman308 it's never that simple - not everyone supports our president when we declare war, I certainly did not want to invade Iraq in 2003. Unfortunately, the nuclear bombs were the best option we had because a land invasion would have killed millions. But that doesn't mean the civilians who often had nothing to do with war deserved to die. The rich wage war and the regular people suffer. In short - it was the right decision to use the nukes, but it's a damn shame we had to.
Did anyone else catch this? #3 was about a Japanese police officer in Hiroshima who survived the blast, went to Nagasaki and taught the police there to duck and cover in case of another bombing. Then they go on to #2 and claim that this other guy is the only person to have survived both bombings.
Uncle Negan ya I just realised that. I always knew ew this channel was stupid
They said the only person "officially recognized by the Japanese government". Not necessarily a contradiction.
#7 is partially wrong. Kokura was the primary target, but was obscured by cloud cover. Since the crews were ordered to to a sight drop, and not by radar, the plane, Bockscar, went to Nagasaki, the secondary target.
Thank you for pointing that out
I really didn't want to say. It
strange isn't it how 'cloud cover' prevented them detonating a nuke. ... if you were doing a fire bombing run, then it would make a lot of sense though. hmmmm 'Was Hiroshima actually a firebomb?'
Nagasaki was chosen as a replacement target because of thick clouds and blurred vision, not coz some general thought Kyoto was too good to be bombed
Nintendo is in Kyoto so it's all good. They were still a company back during WW2. It was a different city that was the original target and not Kyoto. Kyoto was removed because it was a cultural center.
Yup, you're right
No the part about the Secretary of Defense not wanting Kyoto bombed was true
Zack Stewart both statements are true
However the weather one is about as different city
The primary target was Kokura. Bockscar made multiple passes over Kokura with the bomb armed and the bomb bay doors open but the bombardier could not find the aim point due to clouds and smoke. Bockscar then flew to the secondary target city - Nagasaki.
Bless the people who survived the bombings and had the strength to carry on with their lives
Yah and to all of our Guys At PEARL HARBOR!
Shirlee Bostrom not comparable to nuclear warfare
Actually surviving until nowadays is worse, THE ENTIRE CITY was showered by Radiation, nowadays the person that survived will suffer a lot if not treated in enough time.
@@Samuello2024 oof i completely forgot about this comment😂 but yes i totally agree with you
America carried out a crime against humanity and was never held accountable for it. Trash country.
The amount of unintelligent people in this comment section is overwhelming
It is a fact of life for youtube.
FUZIØN and you just proved you are one of them
Lol ikr
But not surprising
Just imagine the people on Facebook! !! LOL!!!
Well I guess Watch Mojo doesn't fact check thier videos before theyre published, because it was a B-29 that dropped both bombs, not a B-17.
Your right and kinda wrong. Yes they did use B-29s for most of the time, but there were some B-17s and B-24s involved as well but not as much
Also that the names of the two bombs were named not after movie characters, but rather the PM of the UK and President of the US at that time
@@apollobravo7654 b17s and b24s would be flying way too low for an operation like that
@@apollobravo7654 However, it was B-29s that dropped the bombs. If Operation Downfall were to happen, then there would definitely be more B-17s.
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Me
A Cat Who Needs 3000 Subscribers how did you know?!?
Ya got me.
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Nagasaki was chosen because the original target had too much cloud cover. In fact, Nagasaki also had a lot of cloud cover, but it was decided to drop the bomb blind because they were low on fuel.
The real reason of that is they are scared by delivering the bomb
Didn't even mention that the Fatman actually missed its target by 3 kilometres, thankfully lessening the damage.
My excuse is I wasn't even supposed to be dropped there
Fair enough.
I pray that one day, I can see that flame go out. It would be the most beautiful moment in human history. That is one of the reasons I keep fighting. I need to see that happen
You have that luxury. Had the bomb been created under Hitler or the Emperor, the world today would be an unimaginably dark place where such reflections would be a moot point.
You do know why the industrialized developed superpowers are with their longest peace in human history three words Mutually Assured Destructions remove the nukes you remove the rules and all out world war will follow the memories and tragedies of previous wars will be forgotten they will just see the victory
@@williamanthony9090 Yeah. Imagine if Hitler successfully made the atomic bomb. He would have destroyed the Soviets and he would have bombed America.
*with the flick of a switch the way humanity thought of the bomb was changed, also be sure to subscribe for more great content!*
Number one
It killed a lot of people
Batman Good
Biggest killstreak in history
Ah, Internet. Never change.
Batman thx for the info sherlock
Batman Killed less people than the Nanking massacre though
can anybody here just gather enough humanity to just say "we should learn from history and make sure it never happens again"?
tell that to the japanese. they only care about wat happened to them
@@leexingha its the world leaders, not the people, my friend was Japanese when I was little we played a lot together and she was super nice to me and I loved to hang out with her. Donald Trump is also horrible. The divide between people and world leaders and people with power is what's ruining the world that was supposed to be heaven.
Beatrice Olderog how is Donald trump horrible? If he wasn’t here we would be in a nuclear war right now. Sorry but just because he gets a bad rep doesn’t mean he’s a bad president dumbass
Hal0G0D• 15 years ago he’s the senile mentally unstable guy who’s got the nukes’ codes, ma’am.
Manubibi yeah his first term is almost over. Are we dead yet? No.
Nagasaki was actually not an original target in a second way as well. While Hiroshima was the initially intended target of the first bomb, Nagasaki was actually the back-up location for the second bomb when it was determined that the weather wasn't good enough at the first location (don't know which one it was).
I can already hear the "two wasn't enough" comments.
Two wasn't enough!!
The president said he would keep dropping bombs until the surrender. They had more than 2 ready to go.
It's sad that anything so terrible had to be used at all
The Emperor didn't actually have control over the army, but the generals were manupilating him, showing him fake facts. He then noticed what was actually going on but the generals ignored him
The emperor was in full knowledge of everything going on during the war, and condoned it. Stop being an apologist.
The last entry felt like U.S.A. saying "In our defence..
we *DID* warn them"
I was thinking of sad things when suddenly number 10 birthed Godzilla... 😂
Such a sad time in human history. Hopefully it never repeats.
Bill Cow it probably will with North Korea...
Bill Cow History repeats itself. WW3 will most likely happen. We just don't know when.
If kim flung dung has his way it will happen again
the U.S. is more likely to bomb another country than Korea stop watching your media
it repeated a lot lol
And in less than 50 years after the bombings, Japan rose to become one of the world's strongest economies. How's that for resilience?!
Nothing to do with resilience,
Recovery stage (1946-1954)
Japan was seriously harmed in WWII. For instance, during wartime, "the Japanese cotton industry was brought to its knees by the end of the Second World War. Two-thirds of its prewar cotton spindles were scrapped by wartime administrators, and bombing and destruction of urban areas had caused a further loss of 20 percent of spinning and 14 percent of weaving capacity".[7] Nonetheless, the ability of recovery astonished the world, earning the title of "Japanese Economic Miracle". By and large, every country has experienced some degree of industrial growth in the post-war period, those countries that achieved a heavy drop in industrial output due to war damage such as Japan, West Germany and Italy, have achieved a most rapid recovery. In the case of Japan, industrial production decreased in 1946 to 27.6% of the pre-war level, but recovered in 1951 and reached 350% in 1960.[8]
By the end of the American occupation of Japan in 1952, the United States successfully reintegrated Japan into the global economy so as to eliminate the motivation for imperial expansion, and rebuilt the economic infrastructure that would later form the launching pad for the Japanese economic miracle. [9]
One reason for Japan's quick recovery from war trauma was the successful economic reform by the government. The government body principally concerned with industrial policy in Japan was the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.[10] One of the major economic reforms was to adopt the "Inclined Production Mode" (傾斜生産方式 keisha seisan hoshiki). The "Inclined Production Mode" refers to the inclined production that primarily focuses on the production of raw material including steel, coal and cotton. Textile production occupied more than 23.9% of the total industrial production.[11] Moreover, to stimulate the production, Japanese government supported the new recruitment of labour, especially female labour. By enhancing the recruitment of female labour, Japan managed to recover from the destruction. The legislation on recruitment contains three components: the restriction placed on regional recruitment and relocation of workers, the banning of the direct recruitment of new school leavers, and the direct recruitment of non-school leavers under explicitly detailed regulations issued by the Ministry of Labour.[7]
The second reason that accounts for Japan's rapid recovery from WWII was the outbreak of the Korean War.[12] The Korean War was fought in territory that had been, until 1945, Chōsen (朝鮮) that Empire of Japan had annexed. As the United States was participating in the conflict on the Korean Peninsula, it turned to the Japanese economy for procurement of equipment and supplies because the logistics of shipping from the States soon became a significant problem for the military. Japan's industry was soon providing the required munitions and logistics to the American forces fighting in Korea. The demand stimulated the Japanese economy enabling it to recover quickly from the destruction of the Pacific War and provide the basis for the rapid expansion that was to follow.
@@carlmagrath6389 Not sure what the point was with that block of text, but I didn't read any of it. Thanks!
@@SFO14 Just shows your ignorance and stupidity in today's world. Resilience had nothing to do with Japans recovery, the Marshall Plan had a lot to do with it along with Germany
Japan got fucked in the ass by America, You attack the U S.A then America will crush your country and it's people.
@@SFO14 i think you should, coz you don't know stuff
No 1. Logan saved a Japanese man in Nagasaki.
Hahahah good one… i would double like if i could… 👍🏼🤣😂😬
Kyoto is such a beautiful city, I would love to go there one day if not live there.
Thats awesome to hear! Btw the thing that other guy said most Japanese arent familiar with foreigners as there are so few of them there so you might get a little attention but 99% of people just find them rare its not like they hate you or despice you so dont worry. (From a random Japanese)
Nuclear weapons - Saving people's cats and dogs since 1900's
Wow, watchmojo came up with a good video idea.....
Nails and they still got facts wrong they were going to bomb Kyoto but there was a thick cloud cover that day
Nails I also didn't knew they also make such educative videos. I thought they make videos regarding gaming, TV series and anime
Andrew actually Kyoto was taken off the list of options before the day because it was the area of an important guy’s honeymoon and he didn’t want it blown up.
Didn't they also consider dropping it on Tokyo?
2:00 -2:27 The flame will live on forever. Those in power will never give up their nuclear weapons. It's sad but true.
Until God comes back and rids this world of evil that is
6:08 he survived by using the death reaper seal
🤣🤣😂😂
Finally a meaningful video
Hey @watchmojo probably one of the least known or accepted facts, the conventional bombing of Tokyo on March 9th 1945 was more destructive and created far more casualties than Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
True, operation meeting house destroyed 16 sq km of Tokyo and killed an estimated 100,000 however the death toll from radiation sickness and associated diseases may push the estimated deaths at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki much higher.
Wonder if we deploy Gingko trees on the sun
Romz 2004 no send big shaq. He can never be hot.
Theres no water or cabon dioxide to keep it alive so no
We would have shade all the time. We just need to drop it there at night
Although it was first used in Europe on a limited basis, napalm was use extensively in Japan instead of conventional incendiary bombs. As for the bombing in general, the US was running out of targets to bomb. The cities on the Target Committee's list provided new cities to destroy with atomic weapons, cities that had not been previously bombed.
yet they still used napalm on them and just made a story about 'super weapons'. ... Truman's report was the source that the Japanese Supreme Council referred to about it being an atomic weapon. There was no evidence at the time to suggest it was anything other than a firebomb run.
We didn’t start that war, but we sure as hell finished it.
@@michaellynes3540 "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.." - Gen. Curtis LeMay
The original target for Fat Man was Kokura, but it was cloudy over the city on that day and the crew decided to divert to their secondary target: Nagasaki
So your telling me I wasn't dropped there because it was cloudy?
@@cthulhu3219 they made the pilots identify the target by sight they couldn’t see through the clouds so they went to somewhere that was clearly visible
did u now when the bombs went off id left the print of shadows on walls and floors?
yea I saw it at the museum its so sad
ShyGuyPro yeah, it's awfip
ShyGuyPro Wtf is up with the grammar in this chain?
Did you KNOW that you are illiterate??? So they left shadows. So? The Japanese acknowledge that they were sworn to fight to the last man, woman and child. DID YOU WANT THEM KILLED OFF??
Sweet!
Ironically what might destroy all nuclear weapons might be...
.nuclear weapons 🤔
Love the tone of her voice, shows respect about the sensitive topics.
The title was fire
#10 it gave birth to Godzilla seriusly
Great info here. Damn those trees are magical
Aren't oleanders poisionas?
The bombers that dropped both bombs were B-29's, not B-17's. B-17's were much smaller and didn't have the range and capacity that a Superfortress would have.
there was actually a whole squadron of about 66 planes
thats odd, according to Vsause, Nagasaki was bombed because the primary target had inconvenient weather... mostly cloudy.
now that is correct.
War... war never changes
I think MGS might disagree
Fallout 4🙈🎉🔥
Yes it does idiot. We have even more lethal shit now, unless you're quoting some stupid video game.
That may be the stupidest quote I have ever seen.
You got me
And now we're good allies. Peace achieved!
WOOP
Musaib Nazir true
jaydee040 japan and the us are staunch allies you dumb fuck.
EXEPT FOR ANIMALS ESPECCIALY CHCIKENS ANIMAL ABUSES SHOULD STOP
jaydee040 I don't ever recall American soldiers (who are in Japan because Japan is under U.S. PROTECTION, not CONTROL, just like NATO and South Korea) raping or mistreating Japanese citizens... Also have you ever been to Japan?? Because from my experience Japanese citizens show major support towards the US, and I doubt some random poll actually shows the truth about how they feel.
I’m from Hawaii and NEVER AGAIN do we want fighting and tragedy between the U.S and Japan. 🤝🇺🇸🇯🇵
I was shocked to learn that while tragic and massive in terms of casualties, more people died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
Not enough talk about that. Over a hundred thousand casualties. Worse than Nagasaki. War is hell. Hopefully we continue to learn from this.
Don't forget the firebombing of Dresden it killed even more people and should never have happened bomber Harris should have been brought up on war crimes
@@richardmollohan954
Germany shouldn't have started WW2.
@@kurtvonfricken6829 In that case Germany shouldn't have been forced to be left with war as the only solution courtesy treaty of Versailles which was totally unfair.
Also whenever anyone say anything from the other perspective, don't assume they supported Hitler
@Nybbl er
It's bad. But I wasn't around then so I couldn't do anything about it. Sorry.
"War War Never Changes" - Fallout Series
I just remembered the anime film In This Corner of the World.
Total war has its' own brutal, and inexorable logic.
#7: The US planes were going to drop it on Kokura, but they were flying by "sight only targeting" and there was cloud cover when they got there, so they had to go with the backup city.
This came up as a recommendation after watching Barefoot Gen, such a good movie, sad too. I've always been fascinated about the Japanese culture so it's great to find out about this historical moment in Japanese history
Omg,same. The movie was so sad
Seems like a interesting video to watch. Time to take a break from monster movies and learn something new.
Number 10
Me: Goddamnit
Honorable Mention (or add to #3): Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, who founded the original F-scale for tornado damage in 1971, was in Kokura on both Aug. 6th & 9th, 1945. If Hiroshima was cloudy on 8/6 or if Kokura was clear three days later, Fujita would have likely perished - no F scale. And if the bombs hadn't happened at all, he wouldn't have discovered the microburst. He analyzed the wreckage and later compared it to storm damage. He found both had DIVERGENT patterns in the damage swaths. For reference, tornado damage is CONVERGENT.
Imagine surviving a literally nuclear blast and you still show up for work. I get people who call in sick due to allergies.
"until all nuclear weapons are destroyed"
*plays nuclear*
From what i'v learned Takashi Tanemori is just about the most famous atomic bomb survivor left alive...i mean after all he was only 8 years old when Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima...but luckily Takashi was one of the lucky few who didn't get severly burned or effected by the radioactive fallout from the explosion.
At the end of the video it talks about B-17 Bombers and Curtis Lemay. Both bombs were dropped by B-29 Bombers. The B-17 was a great plane but it was too small to lift and drop the atomic bombs.
#8: While discussing the peace flame, not one shot of accompanying footage show the actual peace flame itself. Instead they showed the Genbaku Dome, a ruin that is actually across the river from the park where the flame is located.
#7: They way they wrote this one suggests Nagasaki was added to the list as a replacement target for Kyoto. It probably is more accurate to say Kyoto was removed from the list that already contained multiple cities, including Kokura, the primary target on the day of the Nagasaki bombing.
#2: She mispronounced Yamaguchi’s name as “Yagamuchi” the first time. Yikes!
While we're at it, number 10 is outright wrong as well.
Godzilla was originally written with no relationship to atomic bombs or radiation. It was only after the Castle Bravo nuclear test that the creator re-wrote the script to add those elements.
So it's correct in the sense that Godzilla is a metaphor for nuclear weapons, but it had nothing to do with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I read that when the plane took off for the second bombing Nagasaki was not the intended target but there was heavy cloud cover over the target city so they shifted to the secondary target, Nagasaki. There was a 3rd bomb that had been built and if the Japanese did not surrender, the last bomb would have been dropped on Tokyo.
That flame is going to be burning a very long time. It will outlast humanity
7:00 Not sure why I'm being this nitpicky, but at that time it was the Army Air Corp, not the Air Force
LsIsthebestonEarth That is correct, there was no such thing as the US Air Force it was known during the war as the USAAC (United States Army Air Corps).
It was the AAF. Army Air Force. period.
Never inew that abput Godzilla, so cool!
I take some issue with some of these as I've studied the history of the Manhattan Project and the war bombings in depth over many decades. Their #4 item is not the generally accepted explanation for the naming of the two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. "Little Boy" was named for FDR and "Fat Man" was Churchill. I've never heard the reference to the Maltese Falcon. I believe that's a stretch but possible, I suppose.
The bit about Nagasaki not being an original target is also twisted. As noted below in the comments, Nagasaki was among the cities chosen for possible bombing but was not the primary for the 2nd bomb on August 9th. The primary target which I cannot recall at the moment, was clouded over and so the crew chose Nagasaki as weather was deemed acceptable there. Even at that the crew of Bock's Car, the bomb plane, almost had to drop the plutonium bomb by radar (again, due to clouds) when suddenly a break in the cloud cover appeared allowing a visual drop. It was not an ideal drop but they got the job done. The rest is history.
Kyoto was crossed off the bomb list not just because one of the generals "liked" the city due to a visit. It was crossed off due to the significance of Kyoto having many sacred religious attributes. If Americans bombed that city, it would only incite further resistance in bringing the war to a quick end. Yes, the U.S. insisted on unconditional surrender and many of the comments below suggest that we could have ended the war only if we had met a number of the conditions proffered by the Japanese at the time.
One has to be able to fully comprehend the mindset of our country at that time. The anger over the unmitigated attack on Pearl Harbor in '41 was still fresh in mind, not to mention the way that the Japanese treated POW's at the time. Ever hear of the Bataan Death March?? Add to that the way that Japan treated the Chinese when they invaded there in ~1937. You truly have to immerse yourself in the history of the time to understand what they did and, more importantly, why. War is never pretty and WWII was one of the bleakest wars in all of man's history. There is so much more I could say on this topic but I'll leave it and hope I've made a point or two.
One additional point: "Little Boy" was originally named "Thin Man" (again, after FDR). But a design change made it somewhat shorter, bringing on a new code name.
Don't let this distract you from
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I’m going to hell for laughing so hard
If it hadn’t been for Pearl Harbor, there wouldn’t have been Hiroshima.
lesson:
hide in a ginkgo tree if you hear a nuclear siren
I also heard that the secretary was very fond of Kyoto and chose not to bomb it. But I also heard that another city was targeted first over Nagasaki but they couldn't drop the bomb there because of poor weather. Don't know which one is true
Both are true. Kokura was spared due to weather conditions as was Niigata. Secretary of War Henry Stimson had spent his honeymoon in Kyoto and became fond of the city to the point where he was adamant that Kyoto was spared. In addition; Kyoto had absolutely no targets of military value, so it would have been utterly foolish on the part of the United States to bomb Kyoto. Yokohama is rather close to Tokyo and had been largely destroyed by traditional air raid and firebombing campaigns; so bombing Yokohama would have been a waste of time and resources.
never warned of atomic warfare? lmao bc they were definitely going to explain that new technology on the panphlets.
Our president warned the Japanese to surrender or experience something the world has never seen. The Japanese decided their own fate.
Although In school we are taught that this was the only way to end the war, I seriously feel like that’s not true. We could have done more to stop the war with out killing innocent people! Honestly I hope this never happens again! I want peace and love between the nations, no more deaths
Peace through superior firepower.
Hope you don’t live in North Korea because they are next buddy
Did you know that some people had their shadows burned into the walls if they were close enough?
Just a suggestion: watch White Light, Black Rain.
Another mindblowing doc regarding WWII: Night Will Fall.
Each title teaches much about.. everything.
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Forgot that wolverine survived that explosion
Hilarious that you say that...I’m watching “The Wolverine” at this very moment.....hahahaha
6:06 I thought that was the Joker's face...
You mention Curtis LeMay in charge of b17s. By that time and in the pacific theatre they were using b29s
does anyone know where i can find the background music for this video?
Within a week flowers sprouted everywhere in Hiroshima
I know the guy who worked with the bombs felt extreme guilt, but how did the pilot feel when he flicked the switch?
1:23 this was the m65 atomic cannon explosions its same as little boy kilotons 15
Tasteful as always.
*bomb goes off*
Ginko trees: aw man I got sunburnt
The August-September 1945 time-line was very important as the allied code breakers had for many months gaining detailed information on Japanese plans for the September extermination of all allied prisoners of war and civilian internees in South-East Asia. The plans went into detail on different methods of mass executions, deposal of bodies and evidence. All this the allies knew about and had dropped some not very subtle hints to the Japanese Emperor, Japanese government and military on whose head the final judgement would fall.
Operation Zipper was the British Commonwealth and Empire's vengeful sledgehammer coming to smash the Japanese nut and retake Malaya and Singapore. The British invasion convoys were at sea and nearing Malaya when Japan surrendered.
In one air raid on Tokyo and the resultant fire storm killed people than either atomic bombings.
Please do more historical lists
I went and visited the sites/ museum they had and it goes into more details than this video I’d recommend going they have a life size model of the bombs
Note to self: Run down the streets shouting they'll nuke us
Fact #11: It mutated Japan from a bushido code imperialistic culture to a weird ass anime culture. Both are mindless, but the second one completely neutered it.
I've been born & raised in Japan, and I'm quite completely familiar with that
Not sure how that adds up. Children and babies were burned. And birth defects followed for generations. There is no justification for it. Not to mention the fact that our president KNEW they were coming to Pearl Harbor and let those young men die, and watch their buddies die, so he would have the excuse to bomb Japan. Sickening...ALL of it.
Could be. Feel free to enlighten where I am wrong in my opinions and deductions. I do notice that I am in a sea of sheeple, who choose to not ask questions and go with the status quo. It's easier, neater, and lazier. Doesn't stop me from speaking to what I see and experience in this country. And it is interesting to me how what we were taught in public schools never totally stopped the truth from coming in later. Truth cannot be totally destroyed. Although truth tellers are usually ostracized, ridiculed or worse. Some have even been burned at the stake, so teachings were delayed a few hundred years because someone decided that person needed to be destroyed. I could be wrong in my view that war is wrong. So be it.
Weight Loss at 59 So President Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor happen. Because he could see into the future and knew The Manhatten Project, which was only started 2 years before, would be completed in 4 more years, which he could then use to bomb Japan. Interesting theory. Now u got me thinking. That would mean that The Allies could have won the war in Europe sooner than they did. They must have have decided to lose some battles so it could continue until The Manhatten Project was completed. When they succeeded in detonating the first Atomic Bomb, the could finally end the fighting in Europe. So they could move to their real objective of dropping said Atomic Bombs on Japan. Jesus it's brilliant!!!! Somebody needs to go to the papers, the press, and Oprah! U might have just unearthed the biggest Government cover up in the history of the world!!!
One bomb per severed testicle, apparently
I think the scariest thing about Hiroshima's bombing is you can still see ash outlines on the ground from civilians who were caught in the explosion. These were innocent people probably on their way to work, or kids playing in the streets.
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6:00 that guy literally got nuked and 3 days later he got back to work!! Meanwhile people nowadays took 3 sick days just for a simple cold.
He is japanies dude.
Worse, most if the time it's fake cold
Or in my boyfriend's case; an employee who called an ambulance for.......a fart. 🤦🏼♀️ No, I'm not joking....he had a big gas pocket bc he eats garbage food all day even though he JUST had his gallbladder removed... (I cannot facepalm hard enough) And he took a day and a half off of work for it....sighhhhh
still nothing compared to some priests who survived with no radiation and they were just a kilometre from epicentre
Though a tragedy, it had to be done in order to stop ww2
Milo Birdsong - no birdbrain - bombing Hiroshima did not end the war - Hitler began killing civilians to accelerate his victories and preserve his armies - you condone him too?
majorgeeek Being called names by a lying Japologist is like being called racist by Black Lives Matter.
majorgeeek japan refused to surrender until after Nagasaki. Japanese were taught to suicidally resist the American invaders. The bombs saved many lives.
That’s completely wrong. They surrendered because of the sowjet unions declaration of war. Eisenhower, Leahy and Byrnes all said that.
majorgeeek inbred idiot
Whatever happened to- ' two wrongs don't make a right' ?
Dear Toho, why haven't you made a movie about Godzilla attacking Oak Ridge, TN?
I knew them all except Yamaguchi Tsutomu. I never heard that one man had actually survived BOTH bombs. I can't imagine what that is like. Surviving the bomb at Hiroshima he must have been like "I LIVE!!!!!". Then as it went off at Nagasaki he was either "Why me????" or "Eh, been there, done that.". Kanpai to Yamaguchisama. A man more than double tough.
Thanks and furthermore Nagasaki and Hiroshima are on separate Islands 21/2 hours by Shinkansen
Because they were firebombs.
@@GameOver-hu1vi So a nuke is just a fire bomb? You need more of an education. Try Basic Science 101. Ask questions. The teachers can answer just about any questions you can ask on the subject.
@@maikutsukino4743 I didn't say a nuke is a firebomb. Try reading a comment properly before getting hijacked by your cognitive dissonance and getting brave behind a keyboard.
I said Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't hit by atomic bombs, but rather firebombs. Just like the other 66 cities in Japan in that period. Most houses were wooden and the devastation was huge.
You need to look at science. According to the data we ought to be able to make a nuclear bunker from gingo trees. Sounds ridiculous yet?
Teachers are basically children that never left the school system and were rewarded for parroting what they were told. You place too much faith in them.
Japan did not surrender because of atomic bombs. This is evidenced by the fact that the Supreme Council didn't think it urgent enough to convene and emergency meeting after the strikes. From the military perspective the damage to the cities was on par with the others that had been firebombed.
I've been to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and people have always lived there. No mutants. Even the flowers and tress blossomed the next year. Is that what you learnt about nuclear weapons? You probably learnt like I was told, nothing grows, inhabitable for 100's of years.
Chernobyl is a lush pocket of wildlife. Sellafield is a 'model town' in the UK built on top of a nuclear reactor accident.
Nuclear power is basically a big steam engine. It's the heat of nuclear waste that boils the water. What is nuclear?
I don't know for sure. I'm certain you don't either. What I am saying though is that there are a lot of 'myths' around nuclear and that the power of it is vastly exaggerated.
@@GameOver-hu1vi A nice, long winded reply that doesn't cover the fact that the conversation was about nuclear weapons and NOT firebombs as you seemed to suggest they are. You only proved I can get you to rant as you embarrass yourself trying to suggest your comment wasn't what it is read as. You also seem to hint that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not hit with nukes (look at your second sentence). And most of what you "know" about nuclear weapons and the aftermath is actually false. I also have been to both cities (See my name. It's a clue). You should keep studying in what you imply are failed American school system.
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How about the same thing with Chilling Tales For Dark Nights?
The ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb was the USS Indianapolis. The mission was so secretive, there wasn't even a distress signal issued when the ship was sunk by a submarine. The survivors were discovered 3 days later by a patrol plane on a routine flight. Only 317 of the 1100 crew men survived.
I think that was mentioned by the skipper in the movie, "Jaws".
I went to hiroshima and it was surreal almost incomprehensible the amount of damage the bomb dealt
Anyone realize that people who say Watchmojo has run out of ideas are using the same comment that's been repeated over and over again? Their the ones running out of ideas.
Number 1 is the best thing to tell someone that thinks America is pure 100% evil by dropping the bombs. Even though the leaflets didn't say that the attack would be nuclear they STILL did state that we were about to attack, and even stated several key cities. Yeah Hiroshima wasn't on there, sorry but that's war. In translation the pamphlet says "We cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked but some or all of them will be, so heed this warning and evacuate these cities immediately". So we did still tell them the truth technically.
Well though luck. It's called war and it's called being human. Was it right to drop the bombs? No. However it wasn't my call, nor anyones that's alive today for the most part. Time and time again has shown when one group of people gets a new weapon they want to test it's capabilities on their immediate rival a good percentage of the time. Nuking Japan had more rippling effects outside of it's borders, and had probably stopped a whole set of wars in the process. When the world seen those bombs go off it was stunned. It knew that we weren't going to tolerate anymore bullshit. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Killed innocent civilians and military personnel because they were in the way of conquering other lands. They attacked with a good portion of our might in Germany, while we were weakest against another country. A cowardly move. It's history and that's why it's history. We learn from it, study it, and try to prevent it from happening again.
In other words, "we keep the right to bomb wherever we fucking want, sorry for the inconvenience! Have a nice day".
In Iraq and Afghanistan, did you also threw leaflets? What did they say? "We are looking for Osama who's actually in another country but since we are already here we'll take your oil, oh well, enjoy your shitty Third World country!"
No, whilst I was in country (Kandahar Afghanistan) I wasn't looking for Osama. Never had one mission looking for him. Never even thought about it honestly. I was an Infantryman tasked with clearing out houses of people that wanted to kill my friends and me. Also got tasked a lot with looking for weapons caches, drug dens, explosives factories, and other things of the like. All the while the house across the street had people that wanted us to help them clean up their "shitty third world country" as you so put it. Fun fact, Afghanistan is fucking beautiful; gorgeous mountain ranges with pristine sunsets. It has well to do people within the towns. The bad thing is that many terrorist organizations operate out of the entirety of the middle east. Something that no one can deny.
Like I stated, it's war. If that rustles your jimmies and gets your tights in a bunch then hate us. It's not like we see hundreds of thousands of people flocking to Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, or really anywhere else for citizenship and asylum every year. However modern war isn't as savage as some our GREAT GRANDFATHERS did. Answer me this. How many places has the US nuked since 1945?
Are you from the middle east? From a video of yours that I watched you sound middle eastern and have the look (nothing wrong with that) but I may be wrong. If I'm not wrong do everyone a favor, pick up a rifle and fight for your own shit instead of calling upon NATO to clean your peoples mess up.
Speaking of NATO, the United States isn't the only one in the middle east. Georgia, Germany, Turkey, Romania, Italy, the UK, Australia, and I think a couple others are over there as well. So it's not just the United States pal. A good chunk of the world is tired of the middle east and their shit.
P.S. We do tell towns and villages about when we are about to do something that may harm the local populace. It's the biggest reason a lot of our troops die today. We tell people what we are going to do, they go to their cousin that's part of a terrorist organization and they get ready. It's not in leaflets though. It's usually something face to face with an appointed translator from the Afghani Government.
One more thing, if you think that we were evil. Go research Unit 731.
Illegal US invasion? Tell me what invasion is legal in anyones eyes anywhere? It wasn't a "legal" invasion when we went to Japan, or Vietnam, or Germany, or Iraq. No invasion is "legal". War doesn't rely on legalities. Also I was getting shot at by people that shoot their own people up as much as us. But it's whatever, go ahead and hate us and talk shit about us. It seems to be the cool thing to do now. In all honesty you should look up how the Afghani Government feels about us. They seem to provide translators and ask us for weaponry and training for their militant forces and police alike. We've been training them for fifteen years and still are. There's a reason you see local nationalists on the news fighting WITH the United States. They asked us for help in kicking out resurgent terrorist organizations.
Another fun fact. Afghanistan has damn near no oil. Iraq has about 110 billion barrels of natural gas, whilst Afghanistan has only about 3.4 billion. So no we are not in Afghanistan for oil. The US, and other countries, are in Afghanistan because we're tired of their terrorist cells popping up with headquarters there. Another thing? I played soccer (futball) with many Afghani children. We're not getting shot at by the good people there; we're getting shot at by some really bad people.
Of course we benefited from Unit 731. So did every other country. How many governments benefited off the fact that we figured out how to make a nuclear weapon?
The U.S. didn't mention atomic warfare in the pamphlets because they wouldn't know what that meant.Telling them that bombs of immense destructive power were coming was adequate. Of course many thought it was a bluff. America didn't need to use these weapons but they wanted to show the world, especially the Ussr what they had.
The upload date is on the anniversary of Hiroshima, nice touch.