Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

Graphic pictures of the effects of the A bombs on people and buildings.

I showed this film when I taught US History in High School. The students were shocked, to say the least. They viewed it as part of the preparation for a debate on the need for using A bombs to end the Pacific war with Japan.

When we dealt with the Cold War, the students had a better understanding of what a weapon a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima blast could do.

A must-view for anyone dealing with the question of using the bombs on Japan.

A must-view for anyone dealing with the question of nuclear weapons.

This is a grim documentary of the immediate effects of the atomic bombs on the Japanese victims of these bombings. It really needs no narration other than a brief introduction. I showed this film to my high school American History students for several years as part of our study of W W II. Few students made much comment about what they saw and were pretty quiet after the film was over. My general impression is that they were shocked by how horrible the effects of nuclear weapons are and I always felt that they began to realize how much more catastrophic the use of nuclear weapons would be today than in 1945. This was generally true of all the students who viewed the film over the course of my 30 plus years teaching career. It was one of the most effective films I ever used in my classes. Everyone should see this film to gain some realistic understanding of what nuclear weapons are capable of and why nuclear warfare cannot be allowed to happen. I was not able to obtain this film until the late 1960's and I always wondered if it had been purposely suppressed. It also reinforced my own opinion that if widespread nuclear war occurs, there is very little chance of survival for any of us.