Hiroshima & Nagasaki

This is kinda a follow up to my Hiroshima Bomb video. After seeing the heated debates on my other vid, I thought I'd help clear up some confusion. This is intended to be more of a story, and it is supposed to make everyone realize that we still have these terrible bombs, but we have taken steps to avoid their use. The monologue in the beginning, along with all of the footage, was taken from www.archive.org, and is intended to give a sense of the scope that these bombs wield. All of the information presented was taken from The Manhattan Project, An Interactive History at http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/index.htm. There are discrepancies in all figures, such as death tolls and yields, so take that into account. The music used was taken from Battlestar Galactica [major props to Bear McCreary!]

Enjoy the show, I hope it makes you think about things a little more objectively, and I look forward to reading your comments! :-)

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[JRKtheAdobeDude]

today's the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing

[gsayers54]

To the person who made this video, appreciation is in order for putting this together to show us what things really were like. Unfortunately, you have to recognize and accept that these dates, actions, and unfortunate events were all necessary to our existence right now. If these bombs were not used during this time, we could easily be throwing them around right now like playing hot potato. One must know the true destruction of the deadliest force in war to be able to control it.

[JRKtheAdobeDude]

Oh yeah, don't worry, I understand that we'd be living in a different world today if we hadn't done what we did. I just thought I'd present it leaning against the use of the bomb, because I've heard more people say it was necessary than it wasn't. I prefer to let people get at least both sides before they make a judgment.

[sanandreas410]

is usa government happy with that ????

fuk war

[OzKenshi]

I'm against war in all it's forms - especially for the sake of the civilians involved, on both sides. The Japanese GOVERNMENT & MILITARY (not the public) commited terrible attrocities, I agree, but that doesn't excuse the use of guinea pig style testing of nuclear weapons. P.Harbour was a strategic military target-Hiroshima was a civilian city with only a quarter of ppl related to military operations. What Japan did in the war was wrong, but USA put themselves in the same category by nuking

[TectonicPower]

Live burial of POWs and civilians.

8,000 Australian and Dutch POWs died in Tarsau, Thailand.

Comfort women mostly from Korea and China, also Philippines, Taiwan, Burma, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Netherlands, and Australia were forced into sexual slavery in frontline Comfort Stations in China, Indochina and Indonesia.

Cannibalism in many parts of Asia and the Pacific against POWs, e.g. Chichi Jima and Bonin Islands, in some cases, flesh was cut from living people.

[TectonicPower]

Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

[TectonicPower]

Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.

A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.

[TectonicPower]

Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.

Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.

[TectonicPower]

Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.

At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.

Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.

[TectonicPower]

Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.

[TectonicPower]

The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.

More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.

After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.

[TectonicPower]

• Manila Massacre in Manila, Philippines • Nanking Massacre in Nanking, China • Palawan Massacre in Palawan, Philippinnes • Parit Sulong Massacre in Johor, Malaysia • Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo, Indonesia • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8 • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China • Tol Plantation Massacre in Australian Territory of New Guinea • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China

[TectonicPower]

The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:

• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore

• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia)

• Bataan Death March in Philippines

• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China

• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia

• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China

• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore

• Kalagong Massacre in Burma