This documentary is both shocking and heart breaking at the same time. The events which ended WW2 the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just the beginning of events which continue to this day and will do so long after I am gone from this earth.
I sometimes wonder if Truman had invited Hirohito to the USA to witness the test of the atomic bomb and said " I think you should surrender before this is used in a war capacity against your citizens " whether Hirohito would have gone back to his people and surrendered to avoid such a catastophic loss of life.
The Japanese people who suffered after the bombings and continue to suffer to this day MUST be a warning to the world about the power these weapons have to destroy mankind. I also think that Oppenheimer realised what he had done by allowing this to be created. For he had become the destroyer of worlds. His words taken from the scriptures were indeed true.
Sadly Hirohito was proclaimed as a god by the Japanese people and I have no doubt that his ego and position would not have allowed him to show a form of weakness and vulnerability to his people. At such a high cost.
Yet man continues to meddle with nuclear power like he knows what he's doing and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima are evidence that we simply don't know what we are doing. The documentary has left me with questions and thoughts and worries for the future of mankind. Ultimately the people who survived the bombings are the only people with first hand knowledge of the pain and suffering that has been created.
It is an amazing documentary which gives the truth about the events after the bombings. The politics and control of information to obfuscate the reality is just as terrifying as the events themselves.
