After 79 years there is very little new to be uncovered about the atom bombing of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the USA on August 6 and August 9, 1945 respectively, to end World War II.
And yet, somehow, there always is. This 52m video focuses on Hiroshima and the photos that were made by some of its citizens at the time.
No Minister 
I can’t watch that. I visited the Peace Museum in Hiroshima. I stood on the point below the hypocenter of the A Bomb that was dropped. And I saw the shadow still burnt in to the stone…
The displays and photo’s in the Museum are tough to process… but the video stalls at the exit are just tear inducing, even for an old b’stard like me. The videos are of 5/6? individuals talking about their experiences on the day.
These survivors talk about the impact, the fire and then the ash fall. They talk of siblings, parents dying over days, weeks, months from the effects of radiation.
The talk of the guilt of surviving, guilty that their school was in one direction from home, their siblings in the other. They had no ill effects physically. Their sibling was coughing up stomach lining and bile within days and then died in pain, covered in sores…
The A Bomb use was justified. The use of Little Boy and Fat Man saved millions of Japanese lives (civilian and military) and of Hundreds of thousands of Allied servicemen’s lives.
But A and H bombs should never be used again. They are anti-life