FILM HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI WHITE LIGHT BLACK RAIN

[boris1421]

If the japanese were ready to surrender, why did it take TWO bombs before they gave up?

[marmakine]

egoist american people

[nateboz2]

If you watch the whole documentary, like half the survivors agree that they would never have surrendered.

[siriuslybloo]

The war was full of unforgivable atrocities on both sides. I met many of the Hibakusha when they visited my town, and they are not the enemy, no matter what their imperialistic emperor did in the 40s. I am not their enemy, even if my government felt there was no alternative to using the A bomb. It was a time of war, and none of us born after it really know what it was like. These people are not my enemy. War is OUR enemy.

[siriuslybloo]

I met the man second from the left at the beginning of the film. A lovely gentle person.

[1LowMan]

There was no alternative to using the bomb.

[siriuslybloo]

I don't know if I agree or disagree with you -- in times of war sometimes extreme measures are called for because no end is in sight. I disagree that there was NO alternative. There are always alternatives. I agree that there may have been no BETTER alternative at the time. I wasn't alive then, so I can't know what it was like. For better or worse the bomb did stop the war g. I just wish it could have been done without so many civilian casualties.

[1LowMan]

I know. There were alternatives; like invading Japan with ground force. Bad alternative, millions upon millions of lives would be cost there. Or we could have just not conquered the Japanese at all, which is plausible. But you don't do that in total war. So for our goals, it was the best choice, at the time. To make a better one would involve changing our entire mission.

[billy2bob]

"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

[billy2bob]

"The Potsdam Declaration ... wrecked everything we had been working for to prevent further bloodshed. ... Just when the Japanese were ready to capitulate, we went ahead and introduced to the world the most devastating weapon it had ever seen and, in effect, gave the go-ahead to Russia to swarm over Eastern Asia. ... I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds."

Ellis Zacharias, Dpty Director, Office of Naval Intelligence

[billy2bob]

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons."

- William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Roosevelt and Truman

[SPARTAN6117]

still guys they attacked the city not the army they killed thousands of innocent ppl.=[

[nexusmist]

they were over populated anyway' that much population was getting the best of america. I'm not american myself, but I back them up.

[SPARTAN6117]

people who mock this are just sad ok this is what people had to live through they have wounds that cant be healed or helped with these people had to live through tough times so if you mock them then you should be a shamed my great grand mother lived through all the world wars she wasnt in them she just was around when they started and ended she was around when my 3 sisters were born when i was born so i feel sad for these people.=[

[CrudeDude]

Remember Pear Harbor. Paybacks are a motherfucker.

[iago71]

You surely cant consider a nuclear holocaust vapourisng and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to be payback for an attack on a military base. Yes Pearl Harbour was bad and the Japanese were at fault in WW2 but you need to think clearly about what your saying.

[harvy]

two wrongs will never make a right.. if you were in these civilians shoes, you would not say that.

[nexusmist]

it's sad .

[monnie110]

it is indeed :/