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A NAGISA OSHIMA FILM
Loosely based on "KUROI AME - The Black Rain" of Ibuse Masuji.
The video (from BBC archive)
The Bomb and its History
6 August 1945 - 8:15 AM
Little Boy bomb, dropped by the U.S. B-29 Enola Gay, explodes with the force of 15 kilotons of explosive.
...a committee chose to drop the bomb on Hiroshima based on three main factors. Hiroshima was a very industrial city and also had a military base. Hiroshima had not yet been bombed and thus would be a good target to display the destructive power of the US's new super bomb. The bomb was dropped at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945 from a B-29 bomber. The bomb fell from the Enola Gay (the name of the bomber) with a parachute and the bomb exploded several hundred feet above the ground. "A bright light filled the plane," wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. "We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud...boiling up, mushrooming." For a moment, no one spoke. Then everyone was talking. "Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!" exclaimed the co-pilot, Robert Lewis while pounding on Tibbets' shoulder. Lewis said he could taste atomic fission; it tasted like lead. Then he turned away to write in his journal. "My God," he asked himself, "what have we done?" The bomb destroyed houses and buildings within a 1.5 mile radius. It was actually the winds created by the bomb which caused the most damage. The true damage however would not be realized for years to come. The long term effects of the bomb were discovered to be: genetic problems, malformed babies, retardations, radiation sickness, and mental trauma. The total death toll of "Little Boy" was about 200,000.
"Little Boy" and "Fat Man"
A second bomb, called "Fat Man", was to be dropped on the city of Kokura. Because Kokura had heavy cloud cover, the second choice city was Nagasaki. The "Fat Man," as its name would attest to, was much larger and had the destructive capabilities of 22 kilotons of TNT. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 am on August 9, 1945. It killed 150,000 people as well as causing the same long term effects as "Little Boy."
The Damage
6 August 1945 - 8:15 AM
Watch of Kengo Futagawa, 59 y.o., bomb's victim, stopped at the hour's carneficina. Foto
by Hiromi Tsuchida.
At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was a prosperous city of nearly 320,000.
The bomb exploded almost directly over the center of the city. Two square miles
of the city were completely leveled by the bomb, and the intense heat generated
by the explosion started fires as far as two miles from ground zero.
About one hour after the bombing.
Picture taken by U.S. bomber 80 km away over the Seto Inland Sea.
Ground Level View of Hiroshima Mushroom.
Picture below taken by Seizo Yamada, 7 kilometers east-northeast of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima then and now.
Hiroshima today.
The Atomic Bomb Memorial is like the 6 August 1945.
9 August 1945 - 11:02 AM
Fireball and Mushroom Over Nagasaki.
Aerial View of Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud.
Victims of the bombings.
Below are a Hiroshima woman and a Nagasaki boy suffering from flashburns. The
woman died on October 15, 1945; the fate of the boy is unknown.
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