The Hiroshima and Nagasaki film they didn't want us to see

The film Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1945 was created in 1968 from Japanese footage that the US Defense Department had kept hidden for over 20 years. The filmmaker Erik Barnouw offered his 16 minute film to all the US main channels. None of them showed it. Why is obvious when looking at this three minute excert.

The atom bombs dropped by the US on those Japenese cities served no military purpose, as the Japanese were already suing for peace. President Truman, who ordered the bombs to be dropped, lied to the American people when he said that the atom bombs had saved lives and there were few civilian deaths. Up to 200,000 were killed.

Seeing the barbarous effect of these weapons, did our political and military leaders decide to rid the world of them? Far from it. Today's nuclear weapons make the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs look like water pistols in comparison, and there are enough of them to destroy not just cities but the whole world.

And who has most of these weapons of mass destruction? The only country to ever use them -- the United States.

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[MamaMacabre]

The US government wanted to study the effects of the bomb. The doctors in Japan were prevented from effectively treating people with radiation sickness so that they could study effects. They confiscated people's bodies and took them to the US to dissect and study. I'm looking for the documentary now...I think it was the James Cameron doc, but I can't find it.

[lightpyramid]

Silly title for this video. Everyone knows how barbaric what happened there was, and there are films that are much more vivid images than this. Whoever the "they" are that didn't want us to see this film... it's more likely that it was too boring to release.

[coetzeebilly]

@radicalrightwing that is correct, thanks for setting the record straight here

[IranContraScumDid911]

9 seconds .... a whole city dead.

[radicalrightwing]

"the Japanese were already suing for peace"

Wrong! The US contacted the Japanese to give them the chance to sue for peace; but they said, "answer only with silence."

Also, the US does NOT have the most nuclear weapons. Russia does; and they have about three times as many as the US.

Yes, nuclear weapons are horrifying; but you do NOT have to lie and make stuff up to convince people of this. All you succeed in doing is making your own credibility suffer.