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@@priceymemes7699 I wish I had the confidence you must have to predict things happening decades in the future with such certainty. I suppose we won't have a US moon base by the end of this decade either?
War is war, and it's safe to assume the people of the time knew that, even more than us. They knew what they were doing, weren't happy about it, but also weren't confused about who the enemy was.
Eh, to be fair - the US spent more money than it gained from either Iraq, which was a "success", or from Afghanistan, which was a massive failure. So you tell me. @@sd-ch2cq
@@sd-ch2cqAre you suggesting that WW2 was unjust? I dunno about you, but I think dismantling the fascists responsible for the Holocaust and Nanking is the single justmost war one could fight.
My grandfather was either the pilot or the copilot for the spare plane for little boy (or fat man he told my father and uncle but they can’t remember which one it was. My father says little boy and my uncle says fat man). He told my father that the mission was so secretive that he still didn’t know the mission until after the Enola gay dropped the bomb. He does know that he picked up a package from Los Alamos that could have been the bomb a few days before the mission went off. After the soviets got the bomb he was amazed to find out that some one gave it to them. He said “How the hell did anyone have enough information to give them anything. We didn’t know that it was a bomb until we were about to drop it.”
Because it weren't military who gave them secrets on how to make them, rather than scientists who made them. They did it so no country would've been able to make a atomic bomb, much faster than others. They sometimes exchanged info through scientific channels and made sure that athe end of the war one country wouldn't have like 10 of them or even mass produce 'em. Even Annenerbe leaked info. I don't think ppl who made a-bomb were fanatics, most of them regreted it afterwards, some were forced to do so, and etc. Oppenheimer and Sakharov both were very unhappy by what have they created and how it shaped the world in the end
Events like that are what make the red scare and McCarthyism a little more understandable, they were able to put a spy in pretty much the most top secret program we had. I think its for the best that they got the bomb quickly though, I think we would have used the bomb more otherwise. And if we used it more, when they inevitably got it they'd be much more inclined to use it.
That’s very interesting. I’m quite interested in Military History and researching my own family’s involvement in conflicts of the last 120 years or so. I hope I can help you with getting more information as I have run into similar issues where family members only had vague recollections of what they had been told. You can actually look up the crews of all the planes used in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look up the Wikipedia page* for the missions and click on the individual names of the planes used as they list in the articles on each plane the crew used in both missions. I would list them myself but it’s quite long as there were 13 planes in total (7 Hiroshima, 6 Nagasaki). The package your grandfather picked up from Los Alamos may have been the bomb itself or one of the test bombs for the training runs as the uranium and components for Little Boy was transported by the USS Indianapolis (which was subsequently sunk in the Philippines and the story of the survivors is immortalised in Jaws). *there are other sources to verify them if you’ve got any doubts on the veracity of the source material but I find for a quick search Wikipedia will suffice. Good luck finding out more about your grandfather mate.
9:31 Its a u2 SPY plane not stealth. There was nothing stealthy about that thing. The RUssians always knew about it. They just didn't have the missile tech to snipe it down until they did. But it was never stealth.
The only stealth plane available during the cold war was the SR71 Blackbird and that was after U2 incident. If I recall correctly, it's radar cross-section was the size of a bird or flock of birds. For a good while, the Soviets weren't sure if it was a radar glitch or not. But the US flew enough missions that the Soviets figured out that it wasn't birds nor glitches. At that point, the SAMs they had could reach the plane's altitude, but the SR71 could fly at mach 3, outrunning any missile.
I think the pilot informed them soon after the drop (while still airborne) somethign along the lines of: "gentlemen, you have just dropped the first atom bomb in history).
I visited Hiroshima on the anniversary of the bombing this year. While I knew the Peace Museum had been left unrepaired, one thing I wasn't expecting was all the small bits of rubble inside it had been left where it was. I dunno, it made it feel a bit more chilling to know that this building was practically frozen in time exactly as it was.
I honestly wasn't feeling good about visiting it. I have the viewpoint that war is war and that the Atomic Bomb usage was probably justfied. But I appreciate what the Peace museum is supposed to represent. I saw a class of Japanese kids go through the Museum being super rowdy and fun and it put me at ease. We should appreciate that we never will witness Nuclear Armageddon or at least I hope.
Also I visited the one in Nagasaki. I didn't go there for the peace Museum. I visited to have fun. The city was pretty great and I never once felt unwelcomed there. There are a few bars that don't like forginers but thats in any city with a more traditional district.
This visit should be mandatory, especially for american students, to remind them of probably the biggest war crimes their nation ever commited, although with those hundreds of war crimes over the 250 years and how those are glorified in us folklore, they're probably too blinded too aknowledge it anyways
@@Oroberus Ok when Japanese visit China we can make them walk through war memorials from that time. If it's the U.S we make them visit the U.S.S Arizona. Just because of where you from doesn't mean you are suddenly supposed to be treated like the enemy.
I like how you specified that nuclear war hasn't happened by 2023 as if generations living in a post-nuclear war world might happen to watch this video.
@@musicalaviator For the most part, the most likely countries to use nukes are Pakistan and India. That is because those two countries have had many conflicts in the past, and as neither country has many, both countries are likely to be somewhat intact after a nuclear exchange without outside intervention. Currently, Israel might if there is another major war that they feel that they cannot win. That is why I think people seem to have a death wish (at least for people in the Middle East’s major cities) when they suggest a larger war in Israel. But, I don’t think we will have to worry about that. Based on the war victory record of Israel, all that is going to happen is the Arab countries losing yet another war. Russia might use nukes on Ukraine if Ukraine is stupid enough to actually invade (in force) Russia proper. I believe (and hope) that the Ukrainians are not stupid and suicidal to do that.
Everyone knows that when you drop a nuclear bomb via a plane it is customary for one of the crew to sit on the bomb and then ride it to the ground while waving his hat like a cowboy riding a bronco at a rodeo.
@@joshuabessire9169 you clearly lacking in the movie history department. That trope was even used in Despicable Me 2 -_- with the bomb shark ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-is5u5uhyc6s.html
Something interesting that you didn't mention is the officers were so worried about the bomb detonating during liftoff that it had to be assembled on the plane after they reached their altitude.
great video! little tidbit: the word Flak is actually the german abbreviation for FlugAbwehrKanone, which means air defense cannon - so no need to say the cannon after flab!
9:30 uhh, U-2 isn't a stealth plane. Lower RCS than a B52 but can still be detected. What it discredited is that flying high can help evade missiles: the SA-2 can down it, hence a B52 will be helpless if it tried to fly high.
Fun fact, because of the technical issues that plagued the B-29, they were unsure it would be able to deliver the bomb. The only other bomber powerful enough to deliver the Atom bomb was the British Lancaster bomber so the British modified a Lancaster to take it just in case. In the end it wasn't needed but if the B-29 hadn't been readied in time, it would have a British bomber and crew delivering the Atom bomb.
I’m looking in the library like you said and I can find anything on this, so it’s good I get enough information from watching your videos, well done! Keep it up man 👍🏽
According to my father, the pilots were given a mere street map for their target and when asked for something more specific the officers in charge didn't clarify much. And again according to my father, come the second bomb the pilots nearly missed their Target because they were so scared of being caught in the explosion
Your videos are always so well-scripted & witty. But I want to definitely shout out the audio in this video, the music was really on point & helped establish mood well. Edit: Also shouldn’t the video be titled “how to drop an atomic bomb?”
My grandfather was a navigator on Britain's V-Bombers, whose job would be to retaliate against the USSR if WW3 broke out. Fortunately that never happened, so they spent most of their time smuggling things across the Atlantic on their patrols. They shared a lot of the same patrol zones in the North Sea as the Soviet bombers, and often ended up hanging around in the air together
@SideQuestYT i believe, they did a 90° turn after releasing the bomb, as this manoeuvre gave them the greatest distance from the detonation in the given time.
3:25 ...that's a B-50, an improved version of the B-29 with more powerful engines, a bigger tailfin and other modifications... 6:05 ...the 'Trinity'-test was a Plutonium-Bomb, like 'Fat-Man', the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki - the intended target Kobe was changed, because of bad weather... ...'Little-Boy' o.t.o.h. used U-235 - and was comletely untested...! There wasn't enough fisionable Uranium for a test-run, but the team of Robert Oppenheimer was sure it would work... ...and it did...! ☠☠☠
Another insane element to this story is the USS Indianapolis which got torpedoed after delivering the bomb and sunk. Due to the secrecy of the mission it wasn't reported missing, it took 4 days for a plane flying over to spot the ship. During this time the surviving crew had to endure the worst shark attack in history with as many as 150 killed by sharks. Of the crew of 1195, only 316 survived. I can't imagine being covered in oil in the beating hot sun of the day and freezing in the ocean at night with nothing to eat or drink for four days, watching your friends around you picked apart by sharks
Step one, eat taco bell, or white castle Step two. Await orders, they will srrive when least expected Step three, stay vigilant airmen, greater men have flown off cours, and violated the Geneva convention, and hit civilian areas
One reason to be optimistic: At the height of the cold war, namely the early to mid 1970s, the USA and USSR had over 100,000 nuclear weapons combined, about half of which were tactical nuclear weapons with 1-15kt yields meant to be used on the battlefield, and the other half strategic nuclear weapons with yields >50kt, meant to be used against targets within the interior of the enemy's country, away from the frontlines and near civilian populations. Today the USA and Russian Federation have fewer than 10,000 nuclear weapons combined. So nuclear weapons are not some "Chekov's gun" of history.
