J Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this rare NBC News documentary. Originally produced two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this presentation features new insight from NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss.
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This is not the Barbie movie.
I think the commentators final comment was insulting and ignorant to all the leaders related to that event. The millions of lives lost prior to that final decision and the millions of lives it would save if and when used contained blood from many races of people. It was a world war and saving lives of all races was considered not just American ones. 🇺🇲✌️
a captivating story, as the NBC did in 1965. of course in 2020 we are racist for dropping the bomb.
does anyone else have a problem with the last 2020 question?
Why are the images more clear from 1920 than today from UFO sightings? 🙂
Someone should explain this to the Biden neocons. It’s They who pose the biggest threat to Nuclear Armageddon in today’s world.
I have contended for at least 2 decades that dropping the dropping the Atomic Bomb upon Japan was the wrong question to be pondering. The real question was to consider that the citizenry of Japan must figure into the question. While the US government was pondering the use of this new weapon, the heart of the matter was being avoided: the true dilemma was whether to attack the people of this beleaguered island was the question to be considered. However, while the consideration of such a brutal policy was being argued within the halls of the American government, the fire bombing (or ‘incendiary’) attacks was proceeding unabated. More innocent citizens were being burned alive practically nightly yet when one considers the methodology of this already existing campaign the US had already broken every official and moral precedent by holding hostage the population of Japan. The question should not have been whether to drop the Bomb upon a city in Japan but whether to use the weapon against the citizenry which had no say as to Japanese war policy. My position is as follows: should we have been dropping the awesome barrage of conventional weaponry upon the cities of this island nation in the first place ?
Dropping the Bomb was a secondary consideration as doing so could be argued that this awesome weapon was, in reality,
The contemporary comments about questions that we’d ask today about race. Since Japan had not surrendered their race had little to do with it. The need to stop the deaths of both sides was paramount. The Japanese indicated they would fight to the death using civilians.
Aaaaw look, they're manufacturing consent for nukes now😂… Timing is impeccable 🎉
It was the right thing to do if you think otherwise then you are just dumb plain and simple millions of Americans and Japanese would have died if USA would have invaded Japan
sad that this overshadowed the use of Mustard Gas in N Africa….which cooked US military in the waters…..but at least chemo therapy came out of Bari…..give them some recognition…..a secret of WWII….and does NOT give recognition of those who died
Well, I say they now know not to pull that PEARL HABOR Shirt anymore, Never forget PEARL HABOR.
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yes the year I was born the used it the first time on the north pole blowing a gap in th atmosphere so all the filth in the air could so called escape via it!!!..ever since they have been trying to close it back up but only maddest worse…so now we got 2 suns…our stellar sun..2 a German made one, and last year the French launched their sun already too, like the Indians are the 4th to go land on the moon…they really are joking?
We should be doing monthly random bomb drops throughout earth. Make it a paid day off call it kaboom day.
Great documentary but disgusting and disorienting afterword by Michael Beschloss, should not be there
Dropping the atomic bomb was not Oppenheimer's decision.
He was not president of the United States.
Oppenheimer was hired to do a job, aid in building a new weapon.
He did his job, that was his end.
The decision to use the weapon was not his to make.
People read too much into the decision.
Perhaps Oppenheimer read too much into the decision to use the new weapon.
It was not his decision.
Very interesting and important documentary. The comments at the end by the nbc historian are misleading and have no place there. He advertises himself exploiting work of others.
amazing
Thank you to NBC for making this excellent documentary. It is very mature in all aspects. There is not a superfluous word or comment.
This is somenthing everyone should see . After nearly 60 years in the archive .And thank You NBC important questions and matters For more than an hour without .Any flash.
It is close to me as I was in Hiroshima last year, I still believe that so many civilians shouldn’t die like that.
Never again?
The USA does not negotiate with terrorists unless the terrorist (V. Putin) has nuclear bombs. Then we negotiate and even allow new big war in Europe.
That Satanic bomb he built didn't stop wars…Since then many many wars have been fought and millions of people have been killed in war… and when US starts the war with China, Russia, that will be he Mother of All Nuclear wars…
Ask yourself what the Japanese would have done with the bomb had they gotten it first. Would they have conducted a demonstration of it for us on some Aleutian Island? Their history suggests that they would have dropped it on San Francisco or Los Angeles without warning if they had had it and if they had had the means to deliver it. Recall, barbarism was the name of the game as far as they were concerned.
THE SCAPEGOAT
And of course trying to watch this here in Kanada is a blank screen! Sound only🤡🤡🤡
Mabey one day the USA will get the bomb on them.alot if wars will be prevented if that happens
SO good.
I'm sorry for the wording, but this is BS.
Wendelle Stevens, et al talk of the Hartz Mtn range's caves in Norway & 2 ready to go to work: 1 plutonium & 1 based in uranium sources. All scheduled for p/up, delivery to DC & NYC on Sept 19,1945 (I believe).
The metallurgy sources, electrical works, welding techniques, etc were not 'made in America' & these were ready to go while we were testing w/Hydrogen in the desert called the Trinity tests.
But, it's the winner who writes the history books.
This has validity, but it's not exactly true & correct.
How to rationalize killing millions of innocent civilians as…. not a war crime or crime against humanity.
I think history was not kind to your decision. It's now considered the worst crime against humanity, second only to the National Socialist Concentration Camp elimination of the Jews, and the pandemic slaughter of the native North and South Americans by the disease introducing Spanish explorers. I suppose forth and fifth would be Pol Pot's regime or Stalin's gulags.
Why does Nagasaki and Hiroshima rank so high in my opinion. Because in the concentration camps, gulags, and thenic cleansing and disease you had a random… slim.. but random chance to survive. Under a nuke, you're just going to be evaporated. There is no chance. If you do survive, it's burns all over your you body or dying soon after from radiation poison and sickness. I've experienced burns on the skin… you have no idea the pain. None. It is beyond inhuman. Suffering burns on yoru body will change your view of humanity forever.
16:55 now I have to watch the Simpson s’more carefully.
George Harrison (hee hee) . that out of the way , heres my thought. The so called '' BIG ONE'' is going to be the end of the earth. We alone have enough to destroy the planet many times over. The same thing for Russia
Regarding the Coda. Second question raised by Bechloss while having some merit, would rank low on a list of considerations of whether to drop the bomb. Germany did not resist like the Japanese, who also regarded civilians as sacrificial and instrumental in a war and would have killed and wounded tens of thousands US troops. The fanaticism of the Japanese was not matched by the Germans.
This leads to the last point of what the atomic bomb potentially would unleash in the future. Yes, we have now lived some 75 plus years with this threat, however those who were living through the war had to face the prospect of a significant increase of more death and destruction of both US and Japanese toops and capital. The world had suffered enough and the war needed to come to a swift end.
this was just what I needed to see after going to Oppenheimer two days ago.
All war is avoidable but since men are lovers of self rather than lovers of Lord Jesus and one another, this will be repeated. However, He is not far behind the coming night and will call all non sense and cold hearts into order. Watch, pray and prepare. Night is upon us
The Americans had more sympathy for the Japanese civilians than they did for the Confederate civilians. How could that be regarded as racist?