Hiroshima and Nagasaki Films HD 

Never seen a more clear video of the aftermath of the bomb. Profound

The "shadows" left behind from people that were instantly incinerated is especially chilling. Caught in mid-step before death, they were actually the lucky ones.

The bomb is NOT detonated above ground to better dissipate radioactive material better as stated early on. The explosion occurs above ground (between 500-1000ft) so a large shockwave can spread and bounce back up and spread again. This shockwave is what causes so much damage. If the bomb hit the ground, a lot of the energy would be absorbed into the earth and not spread in all directions so violently.

Hard to believe that some of those trees still live. There was also an extensive firestorm following the explosion accounting for much of the barren nature of the ruins.

this is totally unique, one of a kind footage that needs to be seen by everyone. and to think this was 70 years ago.

It’s funny how the only lives lost that are mentioned are the soldiers in the barracks. Not the 100,000 civilians.

As a tradesman I would be pretty happy knowing my wall survived the first atomic bomb.

The primary purpose of the detonation above the city was done to maximize the pressure wave thru the Mach-stem effect. Concern for site contamination was far overshadowed by the desire for maximum blast yield.

Best thing about growing up in the sixties was a lot teachers who was world war two veterans who taught history.

Although this clip is specifically made to show the destructive force on buildings and infrastructure, one can’t ignore the horror of children sitting at those desks or walking those corridors as the flash and immediate shock wave blasted glass and debris inward.

I was talking to my grandfather who was in japan wjth the australian army and he said after the japenese surrendered he hitched a ride to hiroshima so he could see the sestruction for himself. He said the first thing that hit you was the area of destruction and the smell. He said it smelt like brimstone and death. He also noted the shear amount of han and animal skeltons in and aroundbground zero. He said he has seen human bones before that were very verh old and these basically looked like them. He said alsi how bleached they were and stripped clean.he said it was like walkinv into a giant crematorium ovem. He said it was very sad and he said he never wanted to be part of such an event ever agin. He was upset at the time and some od the americans didn't want to be near him as they said the 'japs' got what they desereved. Which my grandfather did not agree with. He went back to his base and made his way back to australia. I hope the bomb never get used in war again either.

This is something that needed to be documented. It's good they took the time to do it.

Those who were vaporized or instantaneously killed were the lucky ones. The after effects or long term effects of the bombings were far more devastating.

Rest in peace to the innocent

This is so horrible. How much suffering people can inflict on fellow human beings. May no atom bomb ever be detonated again

I mentioned this on another film. Practice for bombing was done at the salton sea south of palm springs, CA. Exact mockups with same wieght were made and dropped. This was near the town of Niland,CA. Imperial county. Secrets of the salton sea, amazon video. Also the planes took off from Saipan to bomb japan. They have a couple of mockups of the bombs on the runway as a memorial.

Most people don't seem to know the radiation facts. The bomb left little radiation behind (intentionally) - it was the initial blast of radiation that was dangerous. The bomb exploded in mid-air, so it didn't irradiate hundreds of tons of dirt and dust (fallout) that would have happened had it exploded on the surface. The soldiers pointing out the effects likely lived long and cancer-free lives. We did massive studies of survivors of both cities after the war, and if the people 1-3 miles out who experienced the blast and didn't die in the first year of acute radiation poisoning, you had a pretty good chance of surviving to a natural death. There was something like a 10% greater chance of cancer for survivors. The cities are lived in right now; if they had been totally irradiated, they would still be very dangerous (and for the next several thousand years). Don't take my word for it - do some research.

Because it was an air burst, there was very little residual radiation. The point of the air burst is to cause mass destruction yet leave the real estate useable in a short time. Notice both cities are occupied today. Very different than a Chernobyl type situation.

My Grandfather was in occupied Japan....he was in training when the bombs were dropped and went after the war was over. I NEVER knew anything about his Military Service as he didn't talk about it IDK if he was ashamed because he didn't serve any combat or he just didn't want to talk about what he'd seen BUT after his funeral my Grandmother pulled out a large box of photos that my Grandfather had taken when he was over there and he wrote on the backs of EVERY picture who was in in, where it was taken and usually a little note about why he took the picture. I wasn't super happy that these photos existed and they chose after he died to bring them out but I didn't show my displeasure.....I WISH I could have talked with my Grandfather about EVERY one of those pictures!! I served mainly because our Family on BOTH sides have a rich history of serving in the Military and knowing how he felt about that time and what he saw that wasn't pictured would have been PRICELESS!! He has pictures at Christmas time and they're having a large base party...he has General Eisenhower and Eichler's Wives together in a picture he took...sadly he didn't have the Generals in a picture. My Wife made a scrap book with all the pictures and I still have it to this day....one of my prized possessions!!

And to think the bombs weren't all that big compared to ones that were tested later on. Its amazing to see that there's tree trunks still standing. Those people and animals directly below zero point were turned instantly into plasma and instanmy ceased to exist. I've seen this same video a number of times

There is a aftermath video that was taken. Lookes like a terminator movie. There was skulls and bones all over the place. The people that died instantly had the winning lotto ticket. The survivors had to indure some horrific hardship.

Wonder how terrifying for those people 1-2miles away from the zero point, a second of blind flash then come after that all they seen was a red sea made with flame and pure agony.

These footages manifest how tremendous destruction of Atomic bomb was against buildings and facilities. Though there are no description about human loss at all, we could guess traumatic experiences which Hiroshima people suffered.

Knowing the shadows were vaporized beings is so chilling 😞

6:50, imagine the person who vanished in a split second leaving just the “shadow” of his existence🤔

at 4:46... lady sweeping in the background... I'm struck by the futility of it all.

My Grandfather was there shorty after the war. We have a few photos, but I'm not sure if he took them himself. We also have a bowl with glass fused onto it. I've been trying to convince my mum to donate it to a museum.

Some nuclear weapons today are 3000 times stronger.

Very good video. The power of Atom Bomb is terrifying.

The commentary on this video is very informational but I can't help feeling that hes describing it as the results of a experiment.

10 days after Nagasaki my Dads ship docked and all sailors were MPs for about 2 weeks. He found a boxed whetstone and brought it back. I checked it with a gieger counter in the mid 70s and it lit up. Still have it and I'm 70 and have cancer. Bad stuff that radiation is!!

4:47 City is leveled but this guy still cleans.

That bit about zoning, while a little rude in tone, was actually an interesting point. I'm in Japan right now, and yeah, they don't really have zoning laws. A building of any purpose can be put next to land used for any other purpose. Sometimes you'll turn into an alley after a street of bars and stores and see like six apartments. Another common sight is squares of rice paddies and farmland right next to houses and insurance companies.

Very interesting footage. Thank-you. Oh the cost...oh the cost.

"They made no attempt to zone their various types of buildings. Barracks, homes, industrial centres of steel and reinforced concrete, factory buildings of brick construction, all were crowded together with no apparent regard for the safety of the civilian population." I suppose they never expected to get nuked.

War is hell. We are all humans and just want to live. Why can't we all just live in peace together as a species....😥

3:18 The damage to the statue clearly shows the danger of high-speed debris near an atomic explosion. This single effect by itself would have killed anyone nearby.

Pearl Harbor was sad and so is this- it’s amazing what people do

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap"

How about those places where the shadow of some folks were burned into things. Hope and pray we never revisit this level of destruction.

@11:58 notice the blackboard in the school what the kids had been learning about. A drawing of a bomber.

I returned yesterday from Japan, having visited Hiroshima. The city is beautiful and it's difficult to imagine now what destruction the atomic bomb caused. Its use in order to bring Japan to surrendering is maybe controversial and violence to other human and on any whatever scale is inexcusable, yet I found myself wondering whether in moral terms the use of physical force ultimately to prevent further human suffering is justifiable in terms of a lesser evil being expedient and excusable in order to bring greater evil and suffering being perpetrated. It still worries me.

It's a shame weapons with this much power and consequences were ever created.... God help us all

It's hard to believe some buildings could be standing 1/10 th of a mile away. That's too close!

Its only the ordinary people that are already struggling enough that suffer from war..

The reason both cities weren't contaminated for centuries was bcuz it was an aerial detonation and the wind cleared out the contaminants rather quickly.

I am Japanese. I read a lot of comments. As a result, I will write down what comes to mind. It was Japan that started the war in the first place. Furthermore, even before that, Japan had illegally occupied countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, and Vietnam, killing many people. Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the only righteous action taken by the United States, and it was also a sanction. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima affected many civilians, but the Japanese government and people took no action, even though they had been warned of the coming destruction even before the bombing. Therefore, those damages are inevitable. If the atomic bomb had not been dropped, millions of Americans would have died. The victims of the atomic bomb paid the price with their deaths. Therefore, Japanese people should not pretend to be victims and have no right to say anything about the dropping of the atomic bomb.

This documentary contains explosive detail....

As a marine in the 80s who was stationed in Iwakuni 20 miles south of Hiroshima that city has been rebuilt beautifully. Look at beautiful liberal run cities in the USA like Detroit and look what they look today.

The commentary is positively enthusiastic as in "What a great thing we have unleashed" Casually saying that most of 20000 at the barracks were wiped out. Wonderful eh.....

Aww.... you can feel the proud American spirit in the speaker’s voice .

Flash burns so far away from from zero point is just horrific.

An increase in leukemia appeared about two years after the attacks and peaked around four to six years later. Children represent the population that was affected most severely. The Radiation Effects Research Foundation estimates the attributable risk of leukemia to be 46% for bomb victims. Regarding individuals who had been exposed to radiation before birth (in utero), studies, such as one led by E. Nakashima in 1994, have shown that exposure led to increases in small head size and mental disability, as well as impairment in physical growth. Persons exposed in utero were also found to have a lower increase in cancer rate than survivors who were children at the time of the attack.

Sickening that grown men couldn’t sit down at a table and resolve a conflict.

My grandpa was a veteran of the European theaters. Normandy to Berlin etc. And he always said we nuked the wrong enemies,or should nuked both. He saw several of the concentration camps...

People on these comments are actually arguing if people were instantly vaporized. They must not have watched the whole video. There's a scene where a US soldier is showing a "shadow" and then even stands in it's footprints (begins at 6:49)

Imagine the weapons we don't see, the weapons that are hidden are the most destructive the world has ever seen, ready to be used at any moment

If I hear "zero point" ONE MORE TIME

My grandmother was in Hiroshima that day. She was 7 years old. My grandmother and her siblings were living near the mountains in Hiroshima due to evacuation. In the morning of August 6 1945, she was eating breakfast with other kids. Suddenly she saw a very bright flash and after 5~7 seconds, a huge explosion and sound pushed up her stomach. The ceiling collapsed on top of them. My grandmother was so in shocked that she couldn't move. Her older sister and brother helped her get out of the collapsed building. When she got outside, the kids were crying. She saw a huge cloud coming from the city. It was a very hot day and the blue sky was clear without a single cloud. But when she got outside after the explosion, there were pink, white and gray colored clouds moving towards them in the clear blue sky. They looked like cotton candies, she said. Since the building has collapsed, everyone was walking outside. They returned back to the building when the black colored rain dropped from the clouds. In the beginning of September 1945, my grandmother suddenly wasn't able to get out of her futon bed, so her mother helped her get out and made her sit down to have breakfast. But my grandmother wasn't able to sit still and collapsed on the floor. She felt super tired and her face, hands and feet were swollen. Every part of her body ached and she couldn't move at all. She missed the whole semester of the elementary school. The doctor came to see my grandmother and told her parents that she would soon die. There was lack of medical supply so he couldn't do anything. One of her neighbor was so worried that he gave her figs every morning. Gradually she became better and started to go to school again in January 1946. Their family moved to the center of Hiroshima in 1946. She went to Fukuro-machi elementary school. More than half of her friends at that school lost at least one of their parents from the war. It was normal at that time and nobody thought it was strange. After school she and her friends played in the Hiroshima city center. She saw the black shadow of the person who was sitting on the stairs when the atomic bomb blasted. She also used to play in the Atomic bomb dome (Genbaku dome) with her friends. The dome was piled up with rubble. She was surprised when she saw a postcard with the picture of the atomic dome later because it was where she always played with her friends after school. We wish for world peace🕊

If it weren't for the use of the Little Boy and the Fat Man, I might never have known my father or any of my uncles!!!! - Marc Smith, born August 16, 1943.

not to mention the fact that the soldier the GI catching this video showing all the burn damage and touching everything he definitely died from radiation exposure because no one told him how dangerous it was to be there

Incredible video at the same time......terrific.... Devastating

Heartbreaking. And an illustration of things getting so out of hand they lead to devastating results. I also feel for the soldier in the footage, pointing out features from the event. How did it effect him and the camera operator? The people in the streets? 😢

That was incredible,how just one, (small by today's arsenals,) bomb did such damage. To think that they use these to detonate the monster's available now. I shudder to think what would have happened to Britain if the enemy had got these weapons first. I don't think we'd have had only two dropped on us.

People have to keep in mind this was only a 15Kt device... Now the strongest thermonuclear weapon in the USA is the B83 with a yield of 1.2Mt for "self defense" That bomb has the ability to kill millions in a second.

It’s scary to think what today’s nukes could do at a air bust of like 1800 feet wonder just how many miles would be obliterated

Interesting scene at 11:55 . On the chalkboard of that school room appears to be a plane wing/engines drawn. Was this "how to identify a US bomber plane"?

I just realized that this footage had to be filmed after August 18th, 12 days later.

So hot the the people's shadows were charred into the ground. The bodies turned to dust.

I remember Harold Melvin Agnew, the American physicist who developed the atomic bomb against Japan, stubbornly claiming in front of the Japanese atomic bomb victims, "I will never apologize." He really seemed serious. Now I hope Americans should directly experience the horror of a nuclear bomb that burns and blows up millions of innocent people in an instant. That is God's command.

Remarkable film. Never have i seen the actual mechanical destruction in such detail. No mention at all about radioactivity, just "We have an amazing new bomb with incomprehensible blast power". The only indications for something more are the shadows left of people on the ground and on wall surfaces, and all the specs and spikes showing up in the film material itself, similar to what could be seen after the Chernobyl disaster.

Ginko trees were one of the few living things to survive at ground zero. Ginko trees also survived the meteor that killed the Dinosaurs.

A business trip took me to Japan in the early 90s. I spoke with an old Japanese gentleman who was alive during the bombs. He said, "Those bombs saved my country. We NEVER would have quit without them. There would have been no one or nothing left of Japan."

Hopefully, this will never happen again. But, I have a bad feeling.

Irony is that same countries who have done this biggest crime against humanity are now teaching other countries lessons of humanity

10:05 incredible, they’re giving them shit for “not regarding their citizens safety” after killing 100,000 of them, that’s audacious

No one should take pride in doing this to another person regardless of war or not! It was a necessary evil to stop war. But one of the darkest hours of human history..

Some weapons should not be built,

I read something one time that made me completely I'll. A person who was burned severely in nagasaki said his hearing was completely gone but he could feel his heart beating as his skin was bubbling off on his neck face and arms.

Who's here after watching Oppenheimer 🙋

When it happens and if I’m alive I want to right next to where it hits so I won’t even no what happened!!! Just vapor, wow such distruction!!!!

For some perspective: The United States Department of Defense is still awarding Purple Heart Medals made in preparation for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. They still haven't exhausted the stocks of those medals struck in 1945. The invasion of the Japanese Home Islands would have been an absolute bloodbath for both sides. Additionally with the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan in 1945, Japan could have ended up a divided country like Korea or Germany. The fire bombing of Toyko resulted in more deaths than the atomic bomb of Hiroshima.

This is an historical record to see how the Atomic Bomb destroys after it was deployed.

3:48　The wall zero side at the atomic bomb dome was not bent by the wind. It is just a design. 原爆ドームの塀は爆風によって曲がったのではなく、元からのデザインです。

Just think, this was a 16 kiloton bomb. Nagasaki was 21 kiloton bomb. Today we have bombs in the 15 -20 megaton range which is approximately 1000 times larger.

Top footage. Hasn’t seen before. Nice one (Also the commentator lad and some peeps in comments get the in-air detonation thing wrong a lot: they explode stuff in the air to ensure as much of the explosion energy as possible is used to destroy people and buildings, as opposed to using half its energy to pointlessly dig a big crater. It’s to increase damage and harm, not decrease it)

It scares me how much money and resources humans put into destroying each other. No matter how much time passes, we never learn.

Hiroshima Castle was rebuilt in 1958 in exactly the same manner. It's a crying shame we did not do the same for the World Trade Center towers.

Most of the damage to Hiroshima was from secondary fires. Nagasaki got a more powerful bomb, but due to several factors there was no subsequent firestorm, and much more of the city survived.

‘Buildings of various materials all crowded together with no regard to the safety of its inhabitants ‘ ffs

My 8th grade History teacher spent his 18th birthday over Germany in a B-17.

Why is there no footage from Japan though? No cameras anywhere in Japan at all? Find it odd

I will be visiting Hiroshima next year during the spring and plan to see the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. The Genbaku Dome survived the blast and is still standing.

The casing for the bomb was created in Ottawa, Canada.

Why not showing the human victim? it was genocide for 140k civilians in Hiroshima. My uncle who was 12 years old is one of them. He was standing about 2200 feet from Groud Zero. His muscle faced to Groud Zero was evaporated.

It's so easy to critique the past by those sitting comfortably in the future....When one considers the horrors of war inflicted by unprovoked adversaries (ie Germany and japan), it becomes eerily clear that retaliation in kind was the only answer. I spent almost two years in Germany during my time in the Army (1974 & 75) and I could still recall the chilling aftermath and echoes of WW2 some 30 years after it ended....The atrocities wrought by both Germany and the Empire of Japan were legion and horriffic...To vilify America for utilizing its most advanced weapon in bringing that infanticide to a close, is foolish at best...It ended the most prolific war in history....For those that continue to mock and ridicule America for It's action, I would further note...There's a reason your not speaking German, Japanese or Russian today....It's the formidable spirit and military might of America...God bless the U.S.A.

This was in effect a lab experiment. Hiroshima was not bombed with conventional weapons to preserve it for the atomic bomb experiment. The city was photographed by air before and after the blast, and ground surveys, as shown above, were conducted after the event. Of course, 80,000 people died in this genocide bomb lab experiment.

"It was a weapon so powerful, it could destroy the Earth in an instant. A great soaring sound in smoke and fire. Atop of it sits death." The Mahabharata

People forget that in 1945 400,000 people a month were dying in the pacific theater. To invade Japan they were predicting over 1 million casualties. It was the hardest decision to make to drop the bombs but it saved lives. I grew up with the son of the copilot of the Enola GAY and I also worked a friend that was getting ready to invade Japan. He told him to tell his father . Thank You for saving his Life!

What a destruction.... And lots of innocent people died