[Part 2/5] HIROSHIMA - BBC Documentary

Hiroshima (also called Hiroshima: The First Weapon of Mass Destruction in the USA) is a dramatized BBC television special documentary film that premiered on August 5, 2005, marking the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The program was also aired on the Discovery Channel in the United States. The documentary features reenactments using firsthand eyewitness accounts and computer-generated imagery of the explosion.

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[kisslite2]

@pkmorse76 SO by your reckoning the best thing to have done with Vietnam, Kora, Afghanistan and Iraq would have been to send the Nukes in - but why stop there? Why not send a few into Iran - and you may as well kick a couple into North Korea whilst you are at it- my god you should be president - you have all the answers - PK MORSE 76 FOR PRESIDENT PK MORSE 76 FOR PRESIDENT - because America could do with another clueless President couldn't it?

[Hperman09]

@witchywoozle Japan was in no positions to give up the fight desipte the blockade. Japan believe in all honor aka Bushido Code and not to mention the government gave the population of Japan ready to fight. The U.S. Navt could do that but all it does it will starve the Japanese population even more but still wasn't giving up the fight.

[sweetheart2109]

@DeejayDREAM They were given time but Japan believes fighting to the death. Japan was never going to surrender that a fact

[grendel2900]

I live in America (sadly) and I can say that even though this country is full of blind, ignorant, fucks, some of us know how terrible this shit was of us to do.

[biscuitninja]

It is irritating that they really messed up with the Indianapolis... YOU ARE STILL AT WAR!

[joergsattler]

Humans beeing inherently warrior,are not capabable of not reacting to aggression of the type as experienced from Japan. Ther use of any weapon , including the atomic bomb was entirely consistent with human nature.

Since Japan initiated Military action , the means of self defense by whatever means was and still is entirely justified. I think that this society today has forgotten the meaning of the concept of what war is.

[GDQT]

@witchywoozle agree with you, there were many ways to win that war. Human when they invent something new, something powerful they always want to test it in real life, to show off their power. Japan was just a real life test for Atomic bomb of inhumanity American.

[pkmorse76]

I do not understand how a country can provoke and initially attack another and then the provked country is the war mongerer when they are victorious? Would it have been better to send hundreds of thousands of Americans to go and die invading a country that would never surrendur? If the U.S. invaded and Japan fought to the last man, how many men would be left by the end of the war? Zero! You do the math! More japanese would have died as a result of an american invasion than from the nukes.

[witchywoozle]

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both weapon tests. The Americans could have blockaded Japan, as the Japanese were in no condition to wage a war. They had little food or fuel resources and their navy had been destroyed. Truman calling the cities "military bases" so they could live with the murder of hundreds of thousands of men women and children. "Not firebobmbing Hiroshima to measure the precise effects of the explosion" that sounds planned weeks or months in advance before the call.

[kiwimendor]

Nemesis by Max Hastings is one of the best books written on the war against Japan. The Japanese were very insular & failed to understand other cultures. Their biggest mistake was to mediate through the Soviets, the idea that Stalin would honour the nonaggression treaty with Japan shows how naive the Japanese were, the Russian simply played them like a bunch of chumps