Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb - Hiroshima - BBC

[Music] there is no joke greenie I saw an aircraft like a tiny silver drop entering the sky above Hiroshima I'd use Sandip I instantly recognized it as an American plane as no Japanese aircraft could fly at that altitude at the time that the total cutest it was just one plane so I assumed that it was passing by as usual and I was content eg Nisa [Music] scream go who did that I was wiping the desktop that was when the bomb was dropped [Music] [Music] I took about 45 seconds from the time the bomb left the airplane until it exploded and I think there wasn't a man in the airplane that wasn't either timing with his watch or counting or doing something I was sure the bomb was a dud I sure wasn't gonna work [Music] [Music] after falling for 43 seconds the time and barometric triggers started the firing mechanism I Iranian bullet fired down a barrel into a uranium tub together they started a nuclear chain reaction solid matter began to come apart releasing untold quantities of energy you you

Channel: BBC Studios

Views: 117,005,287

Keywords: BBC, BBC Worldwide, hiroshima documentary, atom bomb, wwii, ww2, world war 2, history documentary, war documenatry, atom bomb footage, john hurt, nuclear bomb, nuclear explosions, dropping atomic bomb, atomic explosion, nagasaki bomb, hiroshima, hiroshima bombing, hiroshima atom bomb attack, hiroshima and nagasaki, hiroshima bombing video, hiroshima and nagasaki bombing, hiroshima nagasaki, hiroshima nagasaki japan, bomba atomica hiroshima

Id: 3wxWNAM8Cso

Length: 4min 13sec (253 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 14 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/dangerevans007]

"releasing an untold amount of energy"

63 terajoules.

[u/HanSolosSizzledHeart]

Fun fact: Gareth Edwards, Director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, did visual effects work on this BBC program.

[u/Merker88]

Can you imagine living in that time and someone trying to explain to you what America just did?