The Nuclear Tricycle
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- The item that left the greatest impression on me in Hiroshima was a tricycle. Owned by a three year old boy killed in the nuclear blast, it serves as a symbol for one of the great tragedies of the modern era.
And while the story may not be all that it seems, I've come to realize that the truth is less important to me than I'd first believed.
Edit: For some reason I said August 11th when I meant 6th. Not sure where that came from. Not that the date is the important part, but still. I've always got to mess up something, as is tradition.
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The atomic attack on Japan was the biggest act of state-sponsored terrorism ever conducted by mankind. If 9/11 was cowardly in its slaughter of 3000 innocent civilians, how much more so the murder of 100,000? I lived one town north of one of the folks who dropped the bomb, in Pensylvania, and he died unrepentant. What Japan was doing in China was obscenity incarnate, but the civilians had no say, and we discovered many of them simply didn't understand what was being done in their name.
Logically, you cannot have it both ways: Either 9/11 was a brave attack on a deserving enemy, or the atomic blasts are terorrism. They are one in the same.
nice propaganda and lies.
What about the Nanking massacre or the invasion and massacre of the Philippine's for their oil? This video leaves out so much i could add much more to its content. Albert Einstein's gives a great quote which should have been added to this video on why things happen. Just prove's when idiots are in charge of (we the people) who suffers from the lunacy of their leaders? This happened in New Mexico 1300 yrs ago. When people in charge start to loose power they start to kill and chop off the arm and hands of their people over showing a symbol of we are in charge and you will not disobey us.
For what it is worth: There was good reason that OSS wanted to use the Atomic Bomb on Imperial Japan. The US had decoded the Japanese Encryption, and knew about "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night".The I-400 Carrier Submarine being ditched near Hawaii, because the Emperor had surrendered, after Nagasaki was bombed. If the war continued for anther month, then unit 731s Bioweapons would have been used on California, with the Aichi M6A Float Planes being used on a Suicide Bombing Mission, without their Floats [landing gear].
I would have targeted Unit 731, based at the Pingfang district of Harbinin in occupied China, afterwards telling both the Chinese Nationalists & Communists to Euthanize & Cremate everyone who had flash burns from the bomb, and then ring the blast zone with buckthorn trees, which would have saved millions of Chinese, from Unit 731s hastily dumped Bioweapons.
Also I would have nuked the Tokyo Imperial Palace, rather than cities like Hiroshima & Nagasaki, knowing that at least one Atom Bomb would be needed to persuade the Japanese Navy to scuttle the I-400 Class Carrier Submarine before it could infect the West Coast, with Weaponized Bubonic Plague, This Bioweapons Attack would have killed between 1/4 of the population of the West Coast of North America, and 1/4 of the population of the World.
The worst part, many of the Japanese Doctors & Scientists at Unit 731 thought they had made a Doomsday Weapon, and yet they still Weaponized all known Human & Livestock Diseases, using Chinese Civilians as Disposable Lab Rats....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms_at_Night
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aichi_M6A
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Imperial_Palace
Jai, You are failing to consider that by using the Atom Bomb, the US persuaded the Emperor to surrender, about a month before "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night" could be carried out. So if you have a problem with the 100,000 civilians killed, would you prefer if 1/4 of the world population be killed by weaponized Bubonic Plague ??? Granted that the Epidemic may have been contained to the West Coast of North America, but I doubt it.
Why hasn't Japan decontaminated the site, but instead keeps delaying its promise to remove the Bioweapons that were buried in occupied China, and only Japan knows were they are ???
Do you realize that China still has a public health problem caused by Imperial Japan's Bioweapons ???
This is something that should appear on trending
Not "woman took 5 minutes to park" or such shit
The TH-cam algorithm at work
Of all the videos I've seen from Rare Earth this one has to be the one that impacted me the most. Great message, definitely needs more views.
Yep, agreed.
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The Atom Bombs should have been used to Vaporize Unit 731, a Bioweapons Facility & Tokyo Imperial Palace...
@@davidhollenshead4892 The bombs should've not Japan at all.
@@stixky8102 You should take a close look at the amount of casualties the US was taking in Okinawa. Close to 10% of all WW2 casualties happened in Okinawa in the final month plus the logistics of invading Japan was 7 months away. Kinda of didn't have a choice I guess we could have negotiated a truce but that didn't work out very well after WW1
This reminds me of "The Things They Carried" By Tim O'brien. A series of Vietnam war stories that are revealed to be fictional at the end. It wants you to realize the value in fictional stories is that they wholly reflected the sentiments and perception of that time period better than a true story that we interpret ourselves could at times.
I tear up in every video it’s a damn shame this video is so old with so little views. Your father is a treasure a person that represents the best of humanity and its ideals. You tearing open the pages of history in such a neutral and poetic way showing the worst of humanity in a hope that is never repeated. That makes you just as great I wish more eyes saw this your videos truly show the history most are ignorant to and I feel would change people for the better empathy is not weakness. My future children will watch your videos at the proper age that’s a promise. I consider myself well read and every time I watch I find myself researching the history surrounding these stories with such fascination. They keep me from being completely jaded and gives me hope. The fact I can find mindless videos with millions of views when what you show is so profoundly impactful is a shame, I’ll do my part to spread the word.
The tragedy of the bombing in Japan serves a symbol that sometimes you don't have a 'right' and a 'wrong' choice. Nuclear weapons are puzzling things. These bombings ended the war but still killed thousands. Nuclear weapons were designed to murder millions, yet their very existence prevented WWIII from ever happening between NATO and the Soviet Union. Millions of people who would have died continue to live today because of these weapons, and the Cold War ended without mass bloodshed, yet it does not change what these weapons were built to do. To kill indiscriminately.
Nuclear weapons are perhaps the greatest paradox we as a human race will ever face, and serve as clear proof that sometimes the defined blacks and whites of the world fade leaving us with a cold gray.
Blade4952 - You are correct, of course. The policy of Mutually Assured Destruction kept WWIII at bay for the length of the cold war. Still I believe nuclear weapons are too dangerous to have around. There were, then and today, those who believe a nuclear war can be won, and that losses of tens of millions are acceptable. Reagan, for example, believed that an unprovoked, surprise attack on the Soviet Union would preclude their ability to respond. We might have lost a few cities, but he considered that acceptable. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed. I don't like counting on luck.
+Michael Powers True enough. My comment was not meant to appear as though I was picking a side, I simply wanted to bring up how complex this issue can be and how paradoxical the history of nuclear weapons is. I also wanted to highlight how often times we find ourselves in a situation where there is no 'good' option.
We don't _know_ that nuclear weapons prevented war though, because we don't have the alternate reality where the nuclear bomb was never invented to compare with. What we _do_ know however is that the Cold War spawned a number of proxy wars between the superpowers, fought on little-known battlefields far from the minds of the average American or Soviet citizen. Those conflicts killed millions of mostly innocent people, as wars tend to do, despite the watchful eye of nuclear mutual assured destruction doctrine. Only, it wasn't American, European or Soviet civilians. Out of sight, out of mind.
Remember that to avoid WWIII with nukes we also had to have luck, besides the hundred of ways the cuban missile crisis could have gone wrong you also have Stanislav Petrov who didn't react "as he should've" with the false alarm and after that it would have been MAD.
Fun fact, when WWII ended and the US-soviet relations immedietely soured and resulted in the blockage of Berlin, due to the Soviet Union having not developed their own Nuke yet there was actually a plan to Nuke East Germany and the Soviet Union with everything the U.S. had and could make at the time. The plan was cancelled when the Soviet Union developed their first Nuke, and MAD became a thing
Please Evan, don't make space-focused videos instead of these ones. Sure it might not be what people would expect from astronaut Chris Hadfield's channel, but when you think twice, Rare Earth is just a different way to look at our planet, not from space, but through history and through its people. In the end, both you and astronauts deliver the same message: there is no other world like this one, see all that it has gone through, see all the beauty in it, protect it, and please, please, please, stop fighting. ;)
Keep up the good work,
Best wishes from Paris
Emma Hollen you seem to know about this. What is the actual relationship between this channel, the person in this video and Chris Hadfield?
The channel: Chris Hadfield's channel
The Person in the video: Chris Hadfield's son
Chris Hadfield: Canadian astronaut and executive producer of this show
Albert Zhang oh right then, thanks
If the CSA sends Evan to ISS to make few videos there I wouldn't be mad, though. I like his way of story telling. But ISS is quite small anyway.. there's not much to see. But maybe Evan could dig some stories up there we never thought gonna hear.
Maybe you should make your own channel if you don't like what he makes. I don't see what gives you the right to tell anyone what to put on their channel. Suggestions, sure. But you're flat out telling him what to do. Not asking nicely.
I know this is a late comment, but I went to Japan in the summer of 2016 and spent a day in the Hiroshima Peace Museum. It was so quiet you could year a pin-drop. Everyone respected the place as if it was a place of worship, with care and kindness. I also grew up in the USA and had also been told that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were great things to be celebrated. When I went to Japan and stepped foot into the Hiroshima Peace Museum, it was like a slap in the face. Everything I have ever been told about the bombings in the USA were a lie and I was seeing their affects first hand. The USA needs to get a grip on their own history and start calling out their own shit; although it may never happen. Keep up the good work.
Preach it bro
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Dresden.
Raychristofer Child of the atom
damn ninjas cutting onions
Sam m, The threat from Imperial Japan not Nuclear but rather was Unit 731s Bioweapons, and those I-400 Carrier Submarines were designed to transport suicide aircraft to deliver weaponized bubonic plague to the West Coast of the US, a mission the Atom Bomb Prevented !!!
I read a book about hiroshima recently and the horror of atomic weaponry really hit home for me. I'll never forget a passage that read "Only the dead have seen the end of war"...
Your work is amazing... I love everything you have made. Thank you for this labor of love. Thank you from many many of us who stands to learn and feel what is to be an aware human being. We value your work and extend you a multitude of blessings Evan & company!
My favorite episode so far. Very good work guys. This one really hits home
I really appreciate this channel, Evan. It's rare for me to find content on youtube that has me think. My news sources, even my discussion channels like vlogbrothers are often simply feeding me information, instead of ideas. As someone who values his ability to think independently, yours are some of the only videos I always click on in my feed.
Your end card seems to have you questioning if you should just be making space-themed junk in order to roll in the views, but the truth is, not very many people will ever appreciate content like this. Those who do, though, will be the people that you seem to WANT to talk to, and value - the people that can think about themselves, and the world around them, and put things into context of the past and future.
Keep making these. This type of content, sadly, will not be what this era of humanity is remembered for, but it will be what keeps us going.
does anyone else pause the credits and read them? I do EVERY time. a good way to reinject humor to a somber video. Kudos, Hadfields. Oh, and you, too, Francesco.
What amazing commentary on a tough and complex issue. You have earned a new sub from a first time watcher. I can't wait to see what you have in store next.
I love this channel soo much. I keep coming back to rewatch videos.
One of the best videos you have done. Difficult subject matter handled delicately and intelligently. Good Job
Wow! Brilliant~! You pose a wonderful new perspective on an old story. Most of the people alive today were not alive on that day and don't know any of the truth of it. But your perspective sheds honestly to the outcome and how it should be reflected on today. Brilliant!
Omg your videos always give me the chills but In a good way. Eager to learn more I stream you're vids one after the other. This one stood out amongst the rest.
that last shot was both beautiful and really sad, because this is the tail end of your stories from Japan and they were all equally fascinating and well made. i got sad. thanks for this series, Evan and crew.
I LITERALLY WENT THERE A WEEK AGO i saw the tricycle
No it wouldn't, you can't know if we dropped it on a military installation if they would surrender, you can't know if we "blown several nukes high above some city's" that it would have the same affect (we only had two nukes so we couldn't even drop several). You can't know anything unless it happens.
Wrong Rapputin, the death toll would of been doubled or tripled if troops landed, because an even amount of US soldiers would of died along with Japanese. we have been allies since WW2. while at first it was forced, now days its a friendship, like men fighting, punch each others lights out, one falls first, but in the end get up and shake hands and are best friends.
Now the US helps keep japan from getting nuked by crazies in North Korea. I'd say that's a pretty good friend! also many US soldiers during WW2 found Japanese soldiers very honorabru after the war.
So how exactly would one figuratively go to Japan?
Rasputin Grigori: I can't know for sure, but you can know some things with good enough certainty to assume them to be true. I know there's a good chance I'll bump my head if I try to walk through the wall. I know there's a good chance I'll get hurt if I cover my eyes and walk into traffic. I know there's a good chance I won't have a very good time if I got stabbed in the face 27 times. My point is, nothing's absolute. Not even uncertainty. I know what you meant by your post, but I just felt like being pedantic. :>
Most people don't know but leaflets were dropped saying to get out of the cities as they would drop atomic bombs.. Manufacturing was scattered throughout the cities, so they decided that leveling them would be the most effective in stopping the Japanese manufacturing capabilities. The Japanese government did not allow people to leave and evacuate the cities. Mass loss of life could have been avoided.
That the nuclear warfare was depicted as something positive in your school system shockt me! I grew up in europe and in our school, we were taught that the nuclear bombing was a warcrime. A horrible event that killed too many civiliance and that schould never ever happen again. But then, the historybooks are different, depending on who writes them.
Do you know about the Nanking massacre? This is much more awful Hiroshima and nagosaki.
i grew up in the united states and as he said they depicted the nuclear bomb as a positive thing. For the next 10 years i grew up believing it was good until i revised the story many years later and realized the true horror of what America did
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Nanking is fake.People who are supposed to have been killed in Nanjing are the dead due to the Chinese army destroying the Yellow River.
I feel that the rape of Nanking was 'less' awful, (still incredibly inhumane) since it was acted upon by lesser people. It happened with lower ranking officers and solider, the two bombings was a presidential action of war. Intentional, no points away, and even had 5 years of formulation for the creation of the bombs. The massacre was the out come of soldiers and war, idiotic and stupid people acting on reflexes but the bombings was a formulated attack, the people knew very well what they were going for and what the damage would be.
In short I would say that both were terrible war actions, but the bombings were a calculated move, with true intent, while the Nanking massacre was just a bi-product of weak men acting as soldiers.
Did the People of Hiroshima & Nagasaki commit those crimes?
And just because your enemy did commit horific crimes that doesn't mean that the atrocities you commit are less awful.
Denying Warcrimes or even Worse, painting them as something Positive is something horrible nobody should do.
Just stumbled upon your channel and.... WOW!!! You’re truly a fantastic story teller! Keep up the fantastic content! Cheers
I was wondering when you would get to the topic of the A-bombs. Great video. Love the channel. Keep them coming.
Please do continue to make these as long as you can/want, because it matters.
Beautifully narrated...thank you guys for your awesome work!
Beautifully put.
A great summary of the pros and cons of using any power and why symbolisms are still very important.
Thank you for putting this out. Keen timing even.
I just discovered this channel... amazing work!
Thank you Rare Earth for this video. It brings a better perspective for me.
Damn, this got me emotional... best video yet. Keep going!!
Every aspect of this video is top notch, especially the audio. Quite mesmerizing.
That was the most brilliantly objective take on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki acknowledging both the pros and the cons
Sam m, hmmm I don't know. I don't agree with you. This video is in no way one-sided to me. It does look at how the bombs were what ended the war. It is not saying at all that Japan was innocent, as you're insinuating. Look at some of their other videos, it's clear that they didn't agree with Japan's actions.
I completely agree that Japan's actions during the world war were on the most part stupid or despicable. The government made bad choice after bad choice, pushed its nation into one of nationalism and ignorance. Talking with people who grew up in the war sucks sometimes because they can be so stubborn on their ideals that most of the time are quite twisted. And the treatment of the Koreans was disgusting and wrong in every sense.
But this video isn't about that. It's about the effects that nuclear war could have on the world. I think the message of the video is that... nukes don't solve everything. There's always going to be that tricycle, fake as it may be, that child who died too soon. The video is about the innocent lives taken because of an ultimately good yet still terrible bomb. Not about whether or not Japan deserved it. And they do still do mention the pros. They mention how it ended the war, and it ultimately saved so many people.
Sorry, this is getting really long, but I want to also talk about how you say Japan is going to fall into a nation of war-mongering again, and that's an idea that I think is quite ridiculous. Yeah, the government is pretty corrupt and dumb right now, and nationalism is still quite rampant, but most kids these days are smart enough not to turn into idiots who make the same mistakes again. Japanese children, instead of about how the bombs ended the war (although of course, they are, come on, it's vital about the world war), read stories about children who died in a bomb, or about a little girl whose father went away to war and never came back. They are well aware of the repercussions of war, and how they should avoid it at all costs. I'm pretty sure the country won't be seeking to fight any time soon after the state Japan was in after WWII.
This became really long, sorry. Please keep in mind that my mother grew up in Japan, and raised me in Canada. I've had a partial education that Japanese children have had, and consider myself very Canadian. Thank you.
I like the video not because it is objective, but he does a good job of acknowledging the faults in his arguments and explaining why he feels the way he does.
thousands of children died during the two bombings of japanese cities. how many thousands of children died every time the japanese invaded a nation?
This is purely beautiful..just soothing..idk why I feel so emotional after watching this
Reading the test at the end, I did know that about the Frank diary and it makes me incredibly angry. Fortunately you CAN get the unedited version and the one I read included ALL her truth.
There seems to me to be a parallel between the editing out of the "ugly" parts of the diary and the way we present WWII in schools here in the US, editing out the innocent lives that were lost and viewing the bomb as a triumph. Like we're afraid to teach kids anything "uncomfortable" particularly about this part of history.
That's because her father had it edited. He was the only survivor of the family and found Anne's diary when he went back to their hiding spot.
Very touching video.
Keep up the amazing job.
Thank you Evan and the Team
Excellent video. As a Canadian I was taught as a child the pros and cons of the bombings without being told that it was overall positive or negative. I think the intent was to make us think about how difficult decisions like that are and more to show the horrors of war than to pass judgement.
Truth told with such dignity should be seen by all! In admiration! thanks for bringing this to us all!
Best channel I've discovered in a long time.
A sickening and horrific story... Yet somehow beautiful...
Great content, keep it up m8
Evan, it's interesting to consider this video beside the new one about finding ultranationalist literature in your hotel room.
The Hiroshima memorial broadly represents the inhumanity of war. However, it also allows the Japanese to regard themselves as victims of the war, rather than perpetrators. In truth they were (as a nation) both. All Japanese students therefore learn about the memorial, but few if any are taught about Nanking, etc. That's how an extreme revisionist can be APA hotel's ceo rather than a pariah.
I am moved. Thank you, Evan. I hope (perhaps in vain) that world leaders in control of nuclear power have similar thoughts when they are faced with the potential use of such weapons.
Bombing on Tokyo was also very atrocious.
I went to a tiny museum near Asakusa today, and saw bunch of painting drew by survivors.
Many people reported they witnessed corpses in a bath sized water tank on streets which meant to be a water source for extinguishment.
One of the image that struck me the most was a mother being scorched in one of those water tank embracing her child.
Also many people died on those bridges on sumida river. And most of them still exist today.
It's just so surreal to think many people actually died where I live right now.
that was prefectly well explained bravo my friend
I love these videos, they are so great. It is really interesting to get an insight into a culture that I know very little about. ( also don't make clickbaity space titles)
good job for putting together this episode, Sir.
Keep up the good work. I'm still waiting for the day these videos blow up (poor taste, sorry), as they inevitably will and deserve to. No one else on youtube makes videos of this quality and insight. Even if it only gets 15,000 views, that's 15,000 people you've had a real impact on.
The Japanese military had been annihilated. Hirohito simply cited the nukes in his speech to save face.
Curtis LeMay had been gathering bomber fleets including bombers brought over from Britain. Vast fleets of B24's B17's B-29's and Lancasters. The plan was to absolutely flatten Japan to get them to quit, they wouldn't quit, 12,000 Americans died on Okinawa. 500,000 Japanese would have died in those bombing raids. That dwarfs the Japanese fatalities which would have flowed from the bombing raids that LeMay had been instructed to put in place.
@@errolkim1334 Japan was on the point of starvation and intel on that was reaching the US and UK. They were in siege mode sure, but if they'd broken the curtain wall down that country was gonna fold fast. If they'd done it the "traditional" way it is highly unlikely that the situation would have been as bad as Iwo Jima etc. When the Japanese had fewer civilians to worry about and better supplies. You can argue this for days because we'll never know what would have been.
At the end of the day the West made a decision on how to proceed. It chose the way thay would certainly kill millions of civilians (but not their's), over their military. They chose the method that justified the enormous expence of the nuclear programme to ppl who would have been complaining if Hitler had beaten us to it. The method that (they thought) would keep Stalin in his place for the next 20 years (it didn't). Rightly or wrongly their very difficult choice (hell I wouldn't have wanted to make it! Can't say I'd have been the better person or that history wouldn't judge my choice wrong...) was NOT just made on the basis of some kind of humanitarian calculation. We have to face the ugly side of our war heroes. We can't just whitewash it and act like they didn't make a choice that knowingly condemned hundreds of thousands of civilians to death... an act which others have been condemned for as war criminals.
@@SplatterInker - when the US decided to nuke Japan, they had just experienced what it took to beat the Nazi Party who clung to power even after Hitler's suicide. The battle for Berlin alone took around 200.000 lives, and it could not have been assumed at the time that Japan would have surrendered more easily. I do believe the bombing of civilian population centres was, in itself, a war crime, and I do believe the Americans did it as much as a show of force to the Soviets as for any other reason, but I also do believe that the argument that it shortened the war and put it on a course that ultimately saved a larger number of lives does have some merit.
For such a sensitive subject you went about it perfectly.
Oh, God, how I LOVE this channel. Every single story he tells, he tells in a way that seems so level and heartfelt. Please, I'm just a poor man on a very small monthly income, someone-everyone, please donate to them. Stay golden, my friends.
I write this message on a train back to Kyoto from the peace museum. Those who have been there know when you exit to the walk away there’s a log, I signed.
“We traded the one for the three.
RIP Shin, wherever you are.”
It was an insanely emotional experience throughout and I wasn’t the only one crying.
An important message, thanks for the upload.
This is the most thought provoking video I've ever seen
Consistently great vidoes! Keep it up
A beautiful story of a horrible event. I think you said everything perfect with the video and we can all hopefully learn something from the story.
Your vids are so great!
I wept at the museum. I'm a 6'3, 220lb bearded dude, and I didn't tear up a little, I CRIED like a baby. And it was absolutely the individual stories that did it to me - they were playing videos of survivor's stories, and they just... crushed me. I'll never forget it as long as I live. Like you say, symbols like the tricycle, stories, that's what is needed to remind the world of the cost of actions like the bombings, regardless of whether good came of them or they were justified.
Absolutely perfect take. Good job.
This is one of the best videos ive ever watched in this site
I'm conflicted, as I'm sure many are. I have studied WWII in great depth, and the more I read, the more I realize that the casualties were both necessary and unnecessary. Looking back to WWII as an example of "the ends justify the means" is a perfect way to show that the only way something like the nuclear weapons detonating over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo, or the scorched earth campaign on the eastern front can be seen as sound military strategy, is by dehumanizing the victims.
It's also easy to look back at history and say that the human cost was necessary, because it is unfalsifiable. There's no alternative to compare it to. Instead, we attempted to justify our actions based on predictions that the alternative would be worse. An invasion of mainland Japan for instance likely would've carried an astronomical body count on the Allied and Japanese sides, but the cost might have been able to be confined to military personnel.
It's just sad. That so many innocents were in the crossfire. I think that the WWII's only participating nation that wasn't wholly affected by the true horrors of the war was The United States, and I suppose that has colored the history of the war in our eyes. Americans never had to suffer the aftermath firsthand, dealing with burying dead innocents and picking up the pieces of their lives. Instead, we were afforded the luxury of being merely inconvenienced by rationing. We were insulated from the cost, and I think that as a result, it's easier to write off horrific acts as justifiable.
Of course, being able to justify actions doesn't make those actions right. It just helps the perpetrators sleep at night.
this video is so well thought out
i cried.. god bless this episode!
Does Chris Hadfeild not do these? His name is in the username.
I think chris takes a roll in producing them, and as part of that production effort he levers the subscriber base which he already had. I am 110% content with this because I might not have found this amazing content otherwise.
There is an older video on the channel where evan and chris talk about it together on camera.
Patrick Burridge Ok. Thanks.
And the guy in front of the camera is Chris's son.
Isbchris hadfield the guy from metallica?
DaBloodsploder Krieg no james hetfield is from metallica smh
This is volunteer military in a nutshell. Choosing to be the 1 sacrificed instead of the 3. While I don't personally like the decisions made by the american military as a whole, each cog in the machine is a human. I give ultimate respect for individual soldiers, in this case my heart not only goes out to the people killed by those bombs, but to the people who dropped them.
The power of the nuclear bombs was that it was a single bomb, a single plane (with escorts) but none the less something that a single crew of 5 could do to kill thousands. The power wasn't the destruction of the cities, or the deaths within them, it was the ability to take days or weeks of bombing runs and condense them into a single bomb.
The people who theorized those bombs did so under the duress of knowing what the german scientists knew, the people who created the bombs were kept under intense secrecy with the director himself refusing to hear certain information just in case he himself was a sleeper agent, the people who dropped the bombs were told that they were doing weeks of work in a single run and therefor lowering casualties.
I think this condensation into one single action (or two for the two bombs) was part of what makes it jokeable to people. I believe one of the reasons it took so long for Japan to surrender after the first bomb was because *they did not believe it* in a time where you couldn't just fly a drone over and send pictures over the internet, or even just call someone. Its hard to look at a written piece of paper and accept the reality that the words on it represent.
In the end, the museum takes this one instant of death and explains it in 100 different ways. It helps broaden the scope. Once the scope is broadened it takes very little to keep it open and that tricycle is as good a symbol as any.
that was beautiful . thank you.
Thank you. That was beautiful.
This is the first video of yours that made me tear up.
If you did more research you would realize the nuclear bombs (just three days apart) were part of an overall series of mass bombings for around six months. Almost a million people killed overall. A few days after the Nagasaki bomb the US did what they called the 'Grand Finale', around 800 B52 bombers hit a target near Nagoya. All these bombings used napalm invented by Esso. The sticky liquid incinerated whole cities, including Tokyo.
War is mad.
It's probably already been said that - unlike the centralization factories of the west - much of the Japanese war effort took place in a thousand private home workshops. So if there was such a thing as legitimate targets for a bomb, the manufacturers of war materials (even if they were located in civilian homes) were probably it. That said - some things simply are. The atom got split. The bomb got developed. It would have been political - and possibly military - suicide to not use it. The thing that strikes me about elevating these particular atomic weapons to some sort of mystical status is - the babies run through with Japanese bayonets in Nanjing are equally dead. English babies who died in Newcastle, the German babies who died in Dresden, the babies who died in the Tokyo firebombings - which claimed far more victims than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki - all those human beings are all equally dead. The only real difference is the interval of time it took. War is - and always will be - amoral, indiscriminate and capricious. All the tricycles, monuments, memorials - and hand-wringing - in the world will utterly fail to change that.
Nice one, thanks for this.
My understanding is that on February 26, 1945, the National Resistance Program in Japan made men 15 to 60 and women 17 to 40 subject to training for a projected final defense of the homeland if it was invaded. I'd imagine this made it easier for the US to see even everyday neighborhoods as potential war-zones if it had to invade Japan; strategic air command probably felt a quick end to the war was better than a prolonged war with even higher causality rates.
War and nuclear weapons are things of nightmares.
I know it was a heavy episode...But I wasn't expecting the ending to be hopeful yet soul shattering!
This channel deserves more views. .
Without dropping the atom bombs, the horror of what came after would not have been in the public memory. It's not that they bombed their way to peace. It is not even that fact the Japan intended to fight to the death rather than surrender, though some might say the bomb called their bluff. It is the fact that with out that bombing and what happened in memory and being brought up constantly well after it happened, if not before then the Cuban Missile Crisis at the very least would have seen it on a much larger scale before we learned a lesson. It was the horror of what was going to happen that had the 3rd in command of a Russian Nuclear submarine question whether the blockade meant a nuclear attack was actually underway and so he stopped a nuclear WW3 before it started. And in case you were not paying attention that sub had instructions and full authorisation to launch a nuclear attack on the USA if they came under attack....not something that would be likely to happen today.
Some may which the Japan bombing never happened, but when considering "what ifs" also consider that a full nuclear war may have been the result.
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You missed a great quote. @ 3:55
Hirohito was once quoted as saying: "The enemy has used Cruel Bombs (as justification for unconditional surrender)."
The name of my absolute fav Vsauce video.
Thank you for making this.
The best channel on youtube hands down
This show, especially the ancient history episodes, really brings out what a horrible and despicable waste of lives, time and resources war is. It seems so terribly important when it's happening, but on the scale of centuries, let alone millennia the significance of each war comes down to a bunch of people suffering and dying for no real reason.
This uploaded in the wake of rising tension between NK and the US, and we can only hope we have learned from our past. Nuclear arms need to stay unused.
Wojszach keeping them unused is what kept it cold. Using them would be hot
Regardless of how many more videos you do in Japan, thank you.
I love the point at the end their where you said you can hate a government but hating it's people only leads to suffering
This was absolutely sad and wonderful...
Ultimately, the tragic part of the atomic bombs is that they had to be used for us to understand why they mustn't be used. It's the kind of lesson one can only learn by living it. And while tragic, particularly for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we have yet to see another except in tests.
So there's that.
My high school (from Ontario) didn't tell us that the bombs were a good thing, he told us the "good" the horrific effects of it. He said he honestly didn't know if it was for the greater good.
Yeah Evan, don't make space-focussed click-bait :-) We need these stories to learn about ourselves as much as we need the space stories to learn about our universe. !! Really enjoying these.
"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic" is actually a line from Remarque's "The Black Obelisk", though it is often attributed to Stalin.
I can agree with your conclusion, it doesnt matter if its true or not, it perfectly encapsulates some of the horrors these people experienced in the final moments of their lives, and what others lived through. Perhaps a true story doesnt have to have actually happened as long as the heart of the story stays true. hope that makes sense.
I couldn't agree more. Today I mourned the death of another nine children. I have been doing this now for eight years. Keeping track of the deaths of innocent children gives one a perspective of war which makes it hard to justify or rationalize war.
cry in the morning... thank you.
I think it's great that we give light to these events. Hiroshima and nagasaki were an atrocity, a war crime. This case also shows that there is neither black or white. The choice to bomb these cities was a morally ambitious one. On one side, you killed thousands, but you also prevented the deaths of way more people. It's good that america for example is currently aknowleging what they did, and i hope that other countries involved in ww2 do the same, like japan regarding the nanking massacre.
man it was so emotional but when it cut to the reflection at 3:42 i bursted put laughing because of the damn dab
That's the thing about war, It's the question of do you kill thousands with bullets or hundreds with bombs because if you do nothing millions will die.
Well said Rare Earth. Let’s really hope another world war doesn’t happen again.
"let's talk about nuclear war"
Me "let's talk about that"
(gmm's theme song starts playing)
I visited Hiroshima in 2006 and we also went to the Peace Park. I was deeply moved. One of the guys in my travelling group said afterwards, that it should be mandatory for every American highschool student to visit the museum and to this day I think he's kind of right.
"As intended, the bomb was exploded at an almost ideal location over Nagasaki to do the maximum damage to industry, including the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works, the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works (Torpedo Works), and numerous factories, factory training schools, and other industrial establishments" No stake in the war?
We wont talk about that.
These are the people who raped a city and made the nazis look good (look for Jhon Rabe), bayonet babies, had a head chopping contest and got away with it.
I cant help but want to go hug my infant son who is sleeping in his crib next to me. I hope he lives in a better world that i do when he is my age.