Why Aftermath of Atomic Bombing in Hiroshima Was More Deadly

Would you believe that the atomic bomb wasn't the most deadly thing to happen to Hiroshima? Check out today's insane new video to find out why the aftermath of the bomb was actually so much worse.

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[CryptidVania]

I still remember the words from one of the survivors…”We didn’t think it was a bomb at first, it was so huge that we thought the world was splitting in half”

[bigD]

Once read a eye witness account, of someone who survived being close to ground zero & they said that the river boiled from the intense heat. That people in despair still jumped in..

[TetsuShima]

There's actually a biographical manga called "Barefoot Gen", which tells how the author dealt with the bomb and its effects throught his childhood. One of the most terrifyng things I've ever experienced

[goldinho]

I went to Hiroshima few years ago and it was weird how quiet it was, usually you would hear animals but it just felt like the weight of history was on you.

[theabstrakt]

It must literally have felt like the entire world was ending. Jesus Christ

[Hunikengt]

I have visited Hiroshima, I felt the sadness of the souls in that area, nuclear weapons are truly hellfire.

[wreckedm]

As a kid I had a reoccurring nightmare, I would walk out of a building to an endless horizon of rubble. Like destroyed buildings. Honestly, it looked like the trash compactor pit from Star Wars as far as I could see in all directions. The strangest part, this dream tasted like burning metal to me. I’ve never had dreams with taste, but this one did, each time. I work in the metal working industry, I remember one of my first days on the job smelling the smell of a whole shop of welders and just going back immediately to a dream I had at least 20 years ago. Pretty insane.

[robbabcock_]

What a chilling episode! No one should ever go through a nightmare like this.

[s-wu]

I suffer from chronic pancreatitis, so when I have a flare up it literally feels like my insides are burning from within. I can only imagine the pain that the people who drink irradiated water go through :(

[kyuven]

Nuclear bombings are one of those things where the more you learn about it, the more horrified you become.

[Wraith]

One of the cities I visited during my first trip to Japan. Reading the accounts of survivors is the most sobering experience of my life.

[laurie]

My grandpa (Mom's Dad) was sent to Hiroshima & Nagasaki 2 WEEKS after the bombing.

My grandpa suffered severe radiation poisoning and PTSD upon returning home to Maui, Hawaii after WW2.

He (my grandpa) had night terrors for many years afterwards. My Mom even has stated that she remembers as a kid that my grandpa's radiation poisoning was so bad that he was unable to wear a regular wristwatch from the time he came home from the bomb zone after WW2 (around 1945) until at least around 1977.

Only after that (1977) could my grandpa start wearing a regular wristwatch.

Not to mention that the stories of what all went down during that time, were still sealed & not declassified until the early 2000's.

I was fortunate enough to find out some of these stories from my grandpa, who was (during WW2) an agent for the Central Intelligence Corps as a Japanese Interpretor.

The C.I.C. are/were the predecessors to today's C.I.A.

My grandpa was also the last Atomic Veteran here on Maui to pass on. He (my grandpa) passed at 12 noon Hawaii Time on Saturday, July 8, 2017 at age 91 (he would've turned 92 that following (mid) September 2017) with myself along with my Mom & Uncle (his children) by his hospital bedside.

I can only imagine that my grandma (his wife) was there waiting at the Pearly Gates to welcome him "home".

My grandma (Mom's Mom) passed away on the morning of Sunday, June 6, 2004 at the young age of 74 after a short battle with pneumonia. She would've turned 75 in early August 2004 had she survived.

Upon her passing, myself, my Mom, & my Grandpa were at her ICU bedside in the hospital.

[josephdoctor]

This is definitely a channel for information, there's always something new to learn in each and every video

[KittyNakafima]

This was probably the most gruesome description I've heard of what happened to the civilians in that war. 😳

[izzatihassan]

I've read an abridged version of a novel about surviving Hiroshima (Debu Hiroshima), from a foriegn student who was unfortunately studying in Hiroshima University at the time. What stuck to me was the part where the student tried to escape using the river with his injured pals few hours after the bomb landed, he saw some Japanese wading the river and suddenly dying in it, like the river burning them alive. Some Japanese tried drinking from the river and dropped dead. He also described what you mentioned in 3:40. Horrfiying.

[edi]

Can you imagine going through this... Twice!
One guy had this twisted luck!

[bucksdiaryfan]

As horrible as the nuclear bombings of Japan were, I feel the development of nuclear weapons almost certainly prevented at least two or three more world wars. There have been no direct military conflicts between parties who both had nuclear capabilities before or since

[djquinn]

It’s sad that the Japanese civilians suffered so much due to their governments militarism. Atomic weapons are horrific and I hope they are never used again.

[HighlighterND]

It’s scary how whenever I start researching some thing I want to learn more about you guys happen to make a video a day after about that subject 😦

[teddy.d]

Your videos are unrivaled. On a side note, I’ll never forget the first time I saw a fire tornado…nothing but fire and wind as far as we could see, as if the two separately aren’t destructive enough and the sounds were awfully wretched.