World at War | Hiroshima | Atomic Bomb | Interviews | 1974
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- A selection of clips of interviews from the award winning 'World at war' With the war nearing an end, the US decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has caused controversy since the end of the war. First transmitted on 24/04/1974
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This era of journalism in was the most authentic work - and is rarely seen these days .
The information age has exposed these clowns for what they really are!
@@texas3284 what clowns?
@@67nairb The one in your mirror
Really sad. I remember when you could watch a show on TV without worrying about the liberal bias. Any sow made in 2020 has been dunked in the 🐂💩 political beliefs.
The interviews were the most valuable part of the World at War series
I think the late Mr.Tibbets was a clear spoken and rational man who knew his immense responsebility and acted sincerely
Thank you
The nerve of Kaze who was in government at 4.40 to say Nagasaki was completely unnecessary. As opposed to Nangking, Bataan, Thai railway, Unit 371 and the hell ships being necessary.
And the American went and bought 731s data and also liked to take human trophies such as skulls and other bones. Often executed all prisoners they took. Not that that excuses what japan or Germany did in ww2 but I'd like to say that the allies are not as innocent as we are lead to belive and im sure they had similar departments to group 731 we just will never hear of them. We know they employed concentration camps for civilians during the war and we know that they committed alot of civilian deaths from unrestrictive bombing raids. We even have testimonials from allied general's admitting had they lost the war they would've been subjected to their own Nuremberg trials. War is never so one sided but only those that loose have all their secretes revealed. It can take decades and centuries to uncover that the other side did similar or even worse acts but had them hidden from public knowledge
Nothing on Japan's behalf was justified or necessary, but neither were the two atomic bombs.
Dropping the bomb was just as bad mate.
And what is that claim Japan was conducting negotiations with Soviet Union ? As I remember, the Russians would not receive their diplomats until they were told the Soviet Union was entering the war.
Indeed! Japan masterfully portrayed itself as a victim. For those who are not aware, Japan was the most brutal nation during the WW2. They killed and tortured more people than the Nazi and Soviets together. At the time, I am sure many people were surprised with their surrender, even after 2 a-bombs.
I know i sound horrible here...but it would have made sense if the US would have brutally attacked Japanese army they somewhat deserved it...but attacking innocent people who dont even have democratic rights...is pathetic
I notice a lot of people in comments mention the pilots attitude and “coldness” I guess you can say. I’m no expert but I think it’s more of a coping mechanism then anything. Knowing you killed over 100,000 people in a very brutal fashion would eat up and consume any human with a sliver of conscience. It’s just his way of dealing with it
He had no guilt. He SAVED millions of lives! Had the US had to invade the islands of Japan, the minimal casualties would have been 1 million. The deaths on the Japanese side would have been twice that, if not more. The Japanese did not surrender and would have fought to the last woman and child. Facts.
@@HolgerRuneFanabsolutely, agree 100%! He saved at least a million lives. Japan was the most brutal country during WW 2 - killing and torturing more than the Nazi. It was the only to stop the war and force a total surrender. Japan’s atrocities during the war shouldn’t be forgotten. On top of that, Col. Tibetts is a hero, balls of steel. The bomb was tested only time before, so much could have gone wrong. There is no coping mechanism there, he is fully aware of everything that happened and knows the importance of getting the job done.
Thank you for your account from your father. I am in Hiroshima at the moment, visiting for a few days from England.
No matter the arguments on how many lives may have been saved by avoiding an invasion of mainland Japan, what happened to civilians in Hiroshima is truly terrible.
My grandfather, fighting for England, was sent to Singapore. He arrived just as the Japanese overwhelmed the British forces stationed there, and he was captured by the Japanese and made a prisoner of war.
He was made to work on the Burmese railway, treated brutally, and died from starvation, disease, and exhaustion.
War is terrible and tragedies occurred on all sides
Why would
It ? It was a justified bin ing which saved way more lives in a longer war
@8866pandaCan you imagine such an experience!?
I had a dream when I was a young man about the aftermath of a nuke and trying to dig thru rubble to find my family/loved ones. The dream was horrible and emotional, and I awoke from the grief of the dream.....
Can you imagine having a nightmare about such a thing, and then when you wake up it wasn't just a nightmare, it is real! And you're living it! Horrible! A living nightmare!
Politicians and elites puff up their chests, but it's the regular civilian folks that have to experience the nightmares. Peace isn't that hard. Just get the politicians out of the way.
There were other considerations- When the Japanese Navy began to use Kamakazi attacks and when the public began training non-military personnel in combat techniques, the US had an indication that Japan was prepared to fight and would not capitulate unconditionally. Once surrender was planned, a faction attempted to take political power and refuse to surrender. The US understood that surrender would likely require a taking Japan as it had taken some of the Pacific islands -- at great cost of life and hardware. It wasn't as cut and dried as the makers of this film seem to tell it.
@jaydee040 Where did you read or see the conversation you are quoting? I don't know that much about him, but those lines seem quite out of line with Stettinius's character (work to benefit the poor and unemployed, nuanced attitude toward the Soviets, belief in the ideals of the UN charter (which he helped write), etc.).
Why do you think a country that started a war with undeclared bombing should be allowed to set conditions on its surrender?
My father always told me Truman and the bombs saved his life. He was scheduled to be part of the land invasion of the Japanese homeland. He spent 8 months near Tokyo, beginning 2 months after surrender. I can tell you hate the US and what it stands for! And how can you not be an "over the top" anti-communist? America is about individudal freedoms FROM the all powerful Government. At least in theory.
post war analyses of the Japanese defences on Kyushu showed that the Japanese there would have outnumbered the attacking force. Operation Olympic would probably have meant a serious American defeat.
It gave him relief....he said
4:40 - i don't know if i believe him
Yeah me either
Of course he would say it was unnecessary. And even if his rationale for saying it is true, the US had no way of knowing that the Japanese were seriously considering a surrender. It ran counter to what was happening on the ground.
He just talks technicalities not morals
In every other description of the Enola Gay's mission on 8-6-45 the time from the bomb's release to its explosion is reported as being 43 seconds but here Tibbets says it was 53 seconds.
Chuck Sweeney was a joke. The guy totally screwed up the second mission because he disobeyed orders to wait only 10 minutes for the other plane to rendezvous. Instead he circled for over 45 minutes causing Kokura to blocked by clouds by the time they got there. Then they missed the aiming point at Nagasaki by 2 miles because of more clouds. And then they nearly ran out of fuel on the way to Okinawa. Even Tibbets for furious with his stupidity. So the US army/air force makes him a general.
promoted him out of the cockpit where he could do less harm lol.
What is name of the man at 4:41
Toshikazu Kase, secretary to Shigenori Togo, Japanese foreign minister. He was a career diplomat.
@4:16~4:18 Because the Japanese was negotiating........
Negotiating with the Russians through the channel of USSR, as Stalin was the negotiator with the West. Thats why Truman ordered to nuke Japan right after the success of nuclear test.
4:40 on: You, sir, are lying. The Soviets had declared war on Japan. The Japanese were digging in all over their islands, and still had many soldiers, aircraft, and suicide boats. Read “Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan.” Dropping those bombs saved countless Allied AND Japanese lives.
They didnt surrender after the first bomb... it took a second bomb to stop the threat against our freedom.
Soviet Union and Japan hates eachother long before the declaration of war
@@micjam1986 The purpose of the second bomb was to prove america had the capacity to make multiple devices. The Japanese knew enough nuclear physics to know how difficult it was to produce the material to fuel the bomb. So one bomb might accurately have been considered the maximum capacity the enemy had. Indeed, this was accurate in some ways - the US only had enough material to produce one Thin Man uranium bomb. The Fat Man plutonium implosion bomb was the real breakthrough. Gun-type weapons are very inefficient and rare among nuclear weapons.
@@throwback19841 well no.. the purpose of the second bomb was because they didn't surrender after the first. We now know we didn't have a 3rd bomb.. but we were preparing to invade Japan after the 2nd one.. thankfully they surrendered
@@micjam1986 The USA did have a 3rd Bomb ready to go in the USA and the Hanford Plutonium plant by this time was producing enough of the stuff to build three bombs per month.
Quite a few people within the Manhattan project though it was going to take two bombs to break the Japanese. One to prove the USA had it and a second to prove that they had an arsenal of the things.
This is backed up by the records of the Japanese war cabinet. When they heard about Hiroshima, they wouldn't believe it was an Atomic Bomb, until they had sent their top Nuclear Scientist there to have a look. When he reported back and told them it was an atomic bomb, they then had the attitude that it was most likely a one off "Shock and Awe" attack and the US would not be able to repeat it any time soon because they had most likely used all of their fissile material in the first bomb. After Nagasaki, the Japanese military leadership's view was "SHIT, they have an arsenal of the things".
The Emperor thinks the same and then tells the Military that their plans for a decisive battle on the landing beaches of an Invasion are flawed as the US would Nuke the shit out of any Japanese force that got in their way.
The Japanese plan was to kill so many Allied Troops in an invasion that the Allies would accept a 1918 type armistice offer with terms that the Japanese military could live with. Seeing this was now not going to work the senior military leadership also threw in the towel.
From the documentary A world at war.
Thank you for what you did Paul
@jaydee040 if he hadn't of dropped the bomb, an invasion of Japan would have become necessary, and hundreds of thousands, even millions would have died, and if they bombed them, only a few thousand, yes he killed innocent people, but japan killed millions of children, women, and just overall innocent people, not to mention, during a homeland invasion, thousands of more japanese would commit suicide. The nuke was mostly painless, if you were close enough, and if you were far away, you probably were either a farmer or a soldier, so it basically an uno reverse
@jaydee040 It's a hard time to make a decision at that time I believed, also if Japan wins at that time, Nazi gonna rise up again maybe. Also as a military officer you can only follow General's order there's nothing else he can do, so it's hard to blame him in such a situation.
Evil fuck, you going to Infinite he'll with him
ten trillion subs with no videos i wish god let you try ,then you can judge
You are a bitch ,harlot
this pilot... no emotion... no regret... a machine...
That is how soldiers are trained.
To become a weapon that does not feel.
Only a certain kind of person would be chosen to drop a bomb.
He 100% has no regret till his dying day as he felt he simply obeyed orders
@@Destroyer120296 but... that is not very human... that is more like you are the hitman and you feel okay because you know, you just killed that person, but you had an order, not a will. SO that makes it right? It actually just makes excuses for yourself instead of facing the reality of your actions.
@@ValmisFilm he belives it was the right thing to do.
He knows it killed hundreds of thousands of people and he belives it was justified and the right thing to do.
He def has sociopathic/psycopathic traits because thats why he was put there in the first place
That's the sole purpose of being a soldier. Don't think, don't feel. Just aim, shoot and kill. Emotions are for civilians only.
@@ValmisFilm 🤣 wtf lol
It’s a basic decision - they had a new toy and wanted a chance to use it. Pointless loss of life
You should learn to read more and study history
Bullshit! What better choice did Truman have? Compromise peace? Militarists retain power, & start planning Pacific War 2. Invade? Over 700,000 J soldiers were dug in to defend Kyushu. US kia would have -/+ 100k, J military over .5 mil, J civilian dead several times that. Blockade? How many MILLIONS of J civilians would have starved before Hirohito gave the surrender order? OK Ross Doole- answer that.
and that happens to be a big help in stopping the war..... so maybe not that pointless
Wrong! The bomb ended the war and saved lives!
Great job
Really this topic is being taken from the hands of the historians, and manipulated to such a degree people might believe anything they are told about it
Literally the least costly way to end the war and frankly I have no sympathy for the Japanese in WW2.
Thank god for Paul. My grandpa was in the marines and would have been part of invasion. My mom was born in 55'. Therefore, 500,000 estimated American casualties....i may not be here.
Lucky as hell, mate!
Brian G tens of thousands of innocent people would still be alive if he had not dropped the bomb
@@stevenlerch8584 Hardly innocent.
Brian G do you really think they all agreed with their regime
@@stevenlerch8584 Most did, yes. They revered him as a god!
2:24-2:28 eighty rooms? She must've been reallly rich.
8 rooms bud
@@ashtontrent2057 oh sorry.
There is no justification for nuclear weapons. (Not even for uranium ammunition.) This decoupling - annihilation at the push of a button - virtually, without being there oneself, without visible blood on the hands, should never have taken place! So millions can die and nobody feels responsible. The poor civilians in the two cities served as a playground, where two different bombs could be tested, and, as the main reason for the operation, to show the Soviet Union where the hammer hangs. Because the defeat of Japan was already certain. As if that were not enough, the alleged victors came into the country and examined the contaminated people like laboratory rats. There was no help. Thus they rejected any humanity from themselves. No people, only objects of investigation! Ergo, humanism has no value, geostrategy undermines everything else. Also a common sense, which enables us all in the everyday life to live together. Otherwise the bombs would not have fallen.
That’s a bit rich coming from a Swiss person. A country that didn’t have the moral fortitude to take the side of right. A country that took deposits from desperate Jewish families and refused to return the money until the 2000’s. A country who’s foreign minister helped Nazi war criminal escape through his country to South America. You people should hang your heads in shame.
@@XxBloggs Very interesting, I thematize the atomic bomb as a war crime. Yes, I am Swiss, but I am not responsible for what happened before my time! You do not answer to my opinion. By the way, the Americans also supported individual Nazis. Those who were useful to them! It is useless to discuss with you.
It seems like we have a mentally challenged person who is here to express his pointless and vastly uneducated opinion.
Exactly correct. It was a demonstration for the Russians. We have this bomb - look at how it works - we are in charge.
Shit take. IJ was causing 20,000 deaths across the South Pacific every day.
Even after the first bomb they wanted conditions for surrender.
They were training children to charge with bayonets.
Truman made the right call
He just took orders. Sad sad day.
Flip side to a lot of the arguments below, and please note this is a realist argument - imagine if the US had chosen not to drop the bomb and instead went ahead with invasion - IMAGINE the political consequences domestically if US voters found out the US had developed the ultimate weapon and NOT used it and instead sent MORE of their kids to die.
Or, imagine if the US had NOT used the bomb, and the Soviets had continued their advance in China and Japanese surrender was forced in this way, which would have given the soviets a MUCH stronger position to demand a soviet-administered zone in Japan post-war. You'd have ended up with a divided Japan like North/South Korea, and a very different world history considering the many Japanese achievements of that past 60 years. Now, again, imagine the US domestic political furore if it was discovered the US had possessed the ultimate weapon and DIDNT use it and ended up losing power and prestige to the soviets.
Imagine spending 4 billion 1940s dollars of tax payers money on the ultimate weapon... and then not using it. Nah, dropping the bombs wasn't just the right decision militarily, it was the ONLY POSSIBLE DECISION POLITICALLY.
Finally, dropping the bombs didn't kill many more people (arguably, the same) as conventional firebombing would have done. USAAF was perfectly capable of incinerating Nagasaki and Hiroshima without the bombs and would have done so anyway without the A bomb. the only reason they hadn't burned them to ashes already was to save them for the A Bomb.
The really devastating decision for Japan WASN'T the decision to use the bomb. It was the decision to develop the B29.
There's been other unintended benefits to the decision to drop the bombs. I argue that doing so showed the world the effects of these weapons on humans, not just on a patch of desert in new mexico, but on actual human beings. This significantly increased the public abhorrence of nuclear weapons and encouraged a defacto prohibition on their use. In short, because japanese civilians were nuked, I'd argue Chinese and Korean civilians WEREN'T. Although the soviets detonated a bomb during the Korean war, the US still had a huge lead in stockpiling and development and effectively still held a monopoly through the war. MacArthur wanted to use the bombs in Korea and against China. I'm not sure Truman would have said no if he hadn't said yes to Hiroshima.
this comment will most likely will not be seen due to how old the video is, but lets just say i know someone who has a friend who has a friend who has friend who has a husband that is the son of the guy who dropped the bomb.
i am NOT doing this for likes. i have discovered this recently and decided to share it.
Curtis LeMay was also a bad arse.
And that was the problem. The Japanese went through the Soviet government and not a neutral government like say Sweden, Spain or Portugal.
This was when America wielded brass balls and steel in her spine. Those days are gone.
10-4
When america was its most obnoxious and nosy
Kevin
It was when America didn’t take any guff from hostile nations and liberal milquetoasts kept their sissy mouth’s shut.
Do you know what nuclear armageddon is?
WOW...!
War itself is the enemy.
What amazes me is that these Americans talk about as if it's another day at the office. it was a very unnecessary act ,it was just a testing ground for the yanks. Like that Japanese ex-soldiers said they' were on the brink of surrendering anyway with negotiations but that wasn't good enough. And it's also funny how the Americans always seem to play the victim no matter what devastating acts they do
Kipper gc mate they didn’t know what they were dropping or if it even worked the government told them jack shit
The United States didn’t want to be part of that war.
@@adangomez5073 no not fuck pearl harbor, the Japanese fucked up the American fleet. they weren't there to kill the entire population like America
Grow up
Americans are entitled but everyone else is always blaming their problems on the rest of the world
Like you’re not responsible for your actions
You shoot our people
Well turn yours to ash
Fuck you
"Very unnecessary act"??? BULLSHIT!!! What better choice did Truman have? 1. Compromise peace, living the militarists in power? Be ready to fight Pacific War II in 25 years. 2. Invade? J Army had 700,000 soldiers dug in defending S. Kyushu. Operation OLYMPIC would have been Okinawa x8. 3. Indefinite blockade? How many MILLIONS of J civilians would have starved before Hirohito gave the surrender order? Brink of surrender? BULLSHIT!!! Even after BOTH A bombs & the soviet invasion of Manchuria, 1/2 of Supreme War Council wanted 4 conditions: retain emperor no occupation, no war crimes trials xcpt in J tribunals & J disarms self.
People standing up for Japan just forget all the war crimes they committed against America and most of all the Chinese people they were ruthless against
Exactly, it seems everyone forgotten about the horrible things done to the Chinese People, it's like Chinese People don't matter to them. Lost my granduncle to the Japanese when they killed him.
It's not that people are standing up for Japan, many are arguing whether or not the attack was justified, even the American dude and the Japanese guy said they were negotiating peace, and so, so many innocents died that day.
and anyway, you can't forget the fact that neither side of the war is exactly painted in glory
And the Brits and Aussies.
@@sakazuki3568 they were killing innocent civilians, they weren’t sitting around passing the peace pipe. A lot went to war with us
Why japanese doesn't revenge?
Stupid
probably because they were going to suffer more casualties, as well as more money, as well as they would most likely lose since the U.S had more resources, plus i don't think that they would take revenge out of only revenge.
Cause they were spent USA had beat them at almost every campaign it was a matter of time before they had to surrender anyway
because revenge is for idiots. That, and Japan invaded China and behaved VERY badly there. They weren't the victim, they were perpetrators.
Based Paul Tibbets.
If there had not first been PEARL HARBOR, there would not have been HIROSHIMA OR NAGASAKI!
Agree.
Pearl Harbor was all about killing enemy soldiers....but Hiroshima nagasaki was cowardly act of killing innocent peoples
so if you not bomb the middle east there would not been a 9/11...so the people that died was ok? your logic is dumb...putin invadet ukrain so now we can kill 150000 Russian civilians? is this true there a sooooo many country's that have the RIGHT to kill every single American! so I hope you know how dumb you are!
You really think that destroying a few military vessels and soldiers was worth killing 200,000 civilians?!
@@thetickitten2784 yes
People have the honour and privilege of being so naive of what it’s like to be in a war.
People are so unbelievable ignorant of the horror stories these soldiers went through during this time.
This bomb saved millions and prevented countless wars and keeps every country and potential dictators in check with the simple fact that they can’t win!
Only problem with that is when someone insane gets a hold off one, it’s game over.
You are unbelievable ignorant to think these bombs were justified. I begin to think schools in the US are brainwashing the students
this aged well
I wonder how he felt about killing and maiming all those poor civilians.
probably the same way you feel about the slave kids who built your computer. I wouldnt be too quick to judge with such childish naivety.
@@richardd7614 Both are very sad and the atomic explosion is worse...
It is a valid question...
i am from england and don't forget our airforce absolutely hammered german cities like hamburg and dresden..if we question this bombing then we must question it all...i wonder how RAF bomber pilots felt after bombing the shite out of dresden..
Живый за гроб нам мире вечной мучение
It was 43 seconds.
You gonna tell the literal man who dropped the bomb that he is wrong 😂
And you're right, it was 43 seconds. The other thing is they knew the bomb worked because of a bright flash of light, not the plane being shaken.
To those who think the bomb shouldn't have been dropped, it can be debated:
1. War is horrific in every way.
2. This was a war Japan started.
3. We were isolationists at the time and didn’t even want to get involved in the war on the western front, we definitely didn’t want to fight Japan
4. We started off very fair with them and took prisoners, until we saw our men that surrendered with their genitals cut off and shoved in their mouths and tortured to death. And still even after seeing that, when we tried to get them to surrender so they could live, during the island battles, they killed themselves instead.
5. Sure call America colonists, but the Philippinos definitely liked being under our jurisdiction instead, they weren’t getting ordered to be raped and murdered. (I'm very happy they are their own country now)
6. They committed just as many horrific war crimes as the nazis, us dropping the A bomb is the reason they’re forgotten today. Look up rape of Nanking and unit 731 just for starters.
[Why don't we have a national day of remembrance for the horror committed against the Chinese? probably because they became communists..]
7. After we captured Iwo Jima, Japan made it clear to us that they had trained ALL men, women, & children to be soldiers and there were no civilians. They told us they weren’t giving up.
8. If we had not dropped the bomb, along with losing thousands more of Americans & allies, at Nagasaki the fatal casualties were 45,000 and the area wrecked was considerably smaller than at Hiroshima because of the configuration of the city. Compare this with the results of two B-29 incendiary raids over Tokyo. One of these raids killed about 125,000 people, the other nearly 100,000. Continuing the war without the bomb would've killed more.
Back in this time we had just lost FDR, one of our greatest and most compassionate presidents, we weren't the crooked “world police” we are today (that started once the bomb was dropped & changed America forever), had just finally really realized how real hitlers final solution was, and we were running out of moral and live bodies to keep this fight up. So after you’ve seen so many of your closest friends slaughtered by the axis powers, would you have objected to ending the war early?
Despite their ferocity, I feel sad and compassion for all that died. It truly was horrific. There were probably many who did not agree with their Emperor's regime, but! My MAIN point in this long post is: this cannot be blamed on all Americans. We had no idea it even existed. Not even the men aboard the USS Indianapolis knew what they were delivering. The blood on all countries hands can almost always be blamed on their leaders and the people working in secret for those leaders. Yet when those leaders are elected, blame can fall on the people who voted for them or arose them to power, but those leaders don't always do what we want them to or tell us everything thats happening. "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -FDR
Now do I like Paul Tibbets? HELL NO! He sounds like a dick without compassion who's gloating. He should feel some shame for what happened and at least be apologetic in some way. (he seems kinda Nazi-ish IMO & probably worked with some in secret)
The war was brutal in general. There was a loss of human life in so many places in the world and I understand the arguments. It is sad though when I read or hear from people who glorify such an act or just smile like the pilot did considering many generations in Japan have been affected by the bombing. You at least have a balanced view of the situation.
Rilee Moser dude I feel like you was there and know everything .
Kurosawa Vermouth what can I say. I’m a pretty big history nerd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@rileem1 you try hard to justify the decision but as Hiroshima is debatable, Nagasaki was unnecessary and it's crazy that the US was never hold accountable for it
@@zinab2blessa Yeah don't glorify the action. There is nothing to glorify. Yet the US definitely has no reason to regret or apologize
A video of the assembly of a Little Boy model : czcams.com/video/CvOQ6-vtcvQ/video.html
Fucking crazy .
It is unbelievable how people in the comments could say that the bombs were justified. Dropping a nuclear bomb is not the same as killing people in war. Nuclear bombs have severe long-term effects and are extremely dangerous for the whole world and for future generations. I am not even stating the fact that those bombs destroyed cities completely with children included.
Terrible
Later in this episode of World at War they were discussing how the Japanese were considering peace talks with the Russians. The Russians had entered the war against Japan. Not sure why the Japanese wanted to broker with the Russians, but they were dragging their feet and this cost hundreds of thousands of lives. I don't think we would have dropped the bomb if we had known about the later effects of radiation and later birth defects.
This guy is a hero, he killed more then 100,000 people. Most innocent. God bless him, God bless america
The Japanese heroes who raped and killed thousands of women and children must be truly evil villains in your eyes!
It is sad he not only did this mass murder on behalf of Usa army but he speaks about it with nochalance and even says that when he felt the blast of explosion he felt relief because everything was working... Did not for one second think of the PEOPLE he was burning alive, injurying horribly, mutilating down there? It is sad to see that assumed common people can have this lack of empathy.
Even in the case he was convinced that dropping the bomb was a necessary evil (I dont think so and Anyway it should be a weapon banned from wars and you cannot justify it in any way... If you cannot win the war in other ways you simply accept not to win, you do not mass murder civilians) i would expect a sign of compassion towards the people he killed.. Did he see the kids burnt alive? Did he imagine the feeling they had for his actions while they were suddenly BURNING ALIVE?
Paul tibbets met captain fuchida, a japanese pilot who was involved in the attack on pearl harbor. Fuchida told him he did the right thing. He felt the japanese leadership were so fanatical that there was no other way of ending the war.
This man is pure evil.
@@user-pz2dy7wc9c And you sir are a pure idiot.
@@user-pz2dy7wc9c We sir are richest, most afluent country in the history of the human race. Cursed? Hardly! Shameless? Perhaps.
@@rcrawford2675 Who said Japanese government wasn't bad? In your fantasy world? You have lack of knowledge history, Japan surrendered because of Soviet invasion not the American terrorist attacks! Literally, USA wanted Japan to surrender by murdering innocent civilians, it's horrible war crime and cowardice. It's like when a murderer killed your precious, you want revenge, instead of killing him, you killed his entire family including babies and children, then you tried to justify your crime... Do you realize how sounds it stupid? I'm not fucking weeb, I hate anime, it doesn't mean I would approve murder of innocent lives. I doubt you would call the terrorist attack good event if your family was one of victims there
Des monstres les gens qui ont participé à cette attaque inhumain
😂😂
One of the most awful crimes in human history. Soldiers train to fight. The excuse being that the soldiers would lose their lives if fighting on mainland Japan. The solution they chose, to save soldiers' lives, was to kill thousands of innocent children, women and men who were not trained to fight. Ordinary civilians who would have had no power over military decisions. Thousands more suffered for years. The 'fortunate' ones, if that term can be even used, were those who died instantly. Dreadful, truly dreadful.
To the children and elderly that died you have my sincerest apologies for the horrors the U.S. Did to you.
IM AMERICAN, BUT I DO AGREED
Of course, if the J govt had simply accepted the Potsdam Declaration, the A bombs would not have been necessary.
Fuck that. Their government ruthlessly brutalized their conquered and attacked America with little warning, expecting us to roll over and lose. It is a sad thing to say, but they got what they deserved.
Are you serious the Japanese were killing millions of civilians in China brutally. They got what was coming to them and some day America will also pay for her sins. When you shed innocent blood God hates it and he will return it to you.
@@kentamitchell you have to understand where the U.S. along with all allied nations were at in this point of the war. So many life's wasted. The troops along with the general population were so expended in this war that it was ready for a means to an end. Looking back, and I agree with this, it was a needless show of wrecking. So many life's agonizingly destroyed. What my point is to try to put yourself in this point of history, and in the leaders shoes. Trying to put a end to this brutalizing war in which we endured shortly after the war of ww1. Humanity as a whole couldn't with stand any more death and carnage.
This was a cowardly act by the Americans.
No, it's not. A war that had killed 55 million people needed to end. If anything, it was a moral act because the only moral act you can preform in a war was to end it.
look up unit 731 and see how you feel afterwards.
Both countries
@@richardd7614 The government shall never be forgiven for their actions, but what did these innocent people do wrong?
@MCADHD666 VOL2 Yes, the government were fascists, but I highly doubt that the people were
I love how they play the victim. Hilarious.
Well you’ve drastically changed your opinion over 11 months
jaydee040 it was a war. Japan attacked the US, the US attacked them back. Literally that has to mean that both were victims, everyone is a victim in war at some point. I know it sucks, but there is no morals in war. It's an situation where people are constantly being killed, so obviously that's the case.
jaydee040 so the argument is that Japan reacted to the US and the US reacted to that reaction? I understand the importance of the "you attacked first" mindset when STARTING a war, but the point of my comment was that it doesn't matter who did what when two sides are battling DURING it. Does that make sense? It matters who started it, but WWII wasn't between Japan and the US, by the time that they began to fight each other it had already been going on so the "you started it" phrase doesn't apply. When a war is going on, it doesn't matter who attacked first because you're just attacking each other non-stop. If you need me to explain further then I will because I may have explained it poorly.
And yes this is clearly about morals because this conversation started with you agreeing with someone laughing about the US's lack of respect/humanity.
jaydee040 "we always assign blame to who caused the war" I agreed with that in my comment that's why I made the "during" I used in my previous comment a capital one.
People care about who starts wars, but there's no victims when the war is going on, especially with two sides that the war isn't even about (the US vs. Japan). Every side is a victim at one point, so it's illogical to say "hey you can't do that because I'm getting revenge." There isn't revenge or "you started it" when a war is occurring, because it's already going on. Let's say there's a fist fight happening and one person says to another "that punch wasn't fair since you just threw a punch." That makes no sense, there is no turns when a war is HAPPENING (when it starts yes, but not during). This example goes for how war works.
And yeah the US is immoral- every single country that has gone to war is immoral. It doesn't matter if one was in the right, killing is killing. There's no way to say that killing is morally right, it doesn't matter what the other group does. Yes it could 100% be deserved, but it is still immoral.
Sorry if I sound really angry, it's hard to discuss topics online without giving this vibe.
jaydee040 oh I see I thought you were just seeing Japan as completely innocent. I understand what you are saying now.
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Killing 200.000 civilians is never justified.
George Walker Bush was almost eaten by Japanese soldiers. His comrade was executed by Japanese soldiers and his body was eaten by Japanese soldiers.
the japanese slaughtering millions in china and southeast asia also was never justified
Gray state they are actors
Tibbets is not a human being. My sixth grade teacher was on the ground, Army, day 2 After The bomb hit.He cried. That’s a man. Tibbets has a price to pay.
They both look very much like Villains of 007 ☻
Huge respect to American soldiers who fought against evil JAPS in WW2 from korea🥲