An interesting reel from my collection that reflects a moment in time, in 1964 looking back at the decisions made in the mid 1940's to use the atomic bomb to end WWII in the Pacific. This reel is part one of a two-parter, of which the second reel is lost. The film was released by the US Atomic Energy Commission and as always I transferred the film using my own Telecine.
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Shame about the missing stuff. Anti-climactic.
🤔 Just When It Was Getting So Interesting………It Cuts Out, Please Find That Other Half Of The 📽
I won’t glorify using such horrific weapons in any way. What we did was disgusting and nuclear destruction is at 25% chance right now according to an MIT professor. I want nothing to do with this insanity.
If the decision had been no, don't drop the bomb. Where would we have been in 1946 after an amphibious invasion, a couple hundred thousand dead from slugging it out with last-ditch defenders, and a negotiated truce, if it came out that we had this weapon, we had tested it and it worked, and we decided not to use it?
This is absolutely gripping thank you
And it would be America to first drop the bomb remember this
A classic bit of propaganda, part of the effort to whitewash one of the worst war crimes in history. Thanks for preserving it.
Do you give copies of these to the Internet Archive?
Fran, I has seen other You-Potatos (Tubers) display a disclaimer referring to "Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976". Fair use for educational and research uses is not an infringement under that section. Have you tried using such disclaimers for your transferred EDUCATIONAL films? BTW I wish NHK World would show this every August when they air shows about the bombings.
…Watch movie AKIRA after this…
I always heard that Hiroshima was targeted due to bad weather at Kyoto. I never heard this version.
the second reel is lost…… it figures. 🙂
I wonder why the second reel is lost ? Beast Regards Jack
jeez…! thanks for uploading
Yes
Thanks a lot!
Thanks Fran, this is noble work. Intense film.
The fact that you still had isolated Japanese soldiers fighting the war 30 years after the war ended is pretty good evidence that their decision to drop the bomb to prevent an apocalyptic slaughter via land invasion of Japan was a good call.
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing this!