Bombing of Hiroshima depicted with wrong film footage for years | DW News

15 miles distance away. 10 mile distance from EMP burst? I'm doubtful they even filmed this.

The fact that we have the power to destroy the earth is crazy

That is unbelievable seeing how big that cloud is above all the other actual clouds. Terrible day in history.

DW is a German public broadcast service... ironic

Anyone watching this video will be interested in the incredible photograph of the Nagasaki mushroom cloud taken from the ground by by Hiromichi Matsuda.
It impresses the scale of the thing not from a far-away plan but from the ground it is truly horrifying.

One has a really creepy face in it and I've never heard anyone ever mention it.

Now Japan loves the US. Imagine loving the murderer of your family and friends? 🤔🤔

Those nukes stopped Japan from committing even more war atrocities, people seem to forget the terrible things Japan did in ww2 when they committed some of the worst war crimes in history.

Glad we could drop a bomb on them and end their reign of terror. And look, now they are awesome, peaceful, beautiful country that makes great cars and video games :D win win.

Why were the USA still dropping atomic bombs after WW2? Polluting the atmosphere and oceans. Makes no sense.

nukes dont exist

Thank you so much for clearing this up!

I guess that’s an explanation for dropping two. Couldn’t get footage of the first that the Russians would see which was the whole point

Well thanks for compositing the expert, the home movie and the Nagasaki official film all on one screen.
So nothing can be seen to illustrate the point being made anyway.
Is the true footage available? A still image photographer was also on board?

The first atomic bomb was detonated in the US in the desert

I don’t know why but the picture of the nuclear bomb Nagasaki brings time to the 20th century. We have truly reach the nuclear age.

Who cares? All the footage is so degraded it makes no neverminds...

Dropping is just off shore as an intimidation warning would've been as effective. Or on a naval fleet.

I'd say that the "error" was made because of the poor quality of the Hiroshima footage. News organizations want the best photos, not the most historically accurate ones. They are selling news images and it is a commercial decision, not made by some American government cabal. They are not public archives. This guy's conspiracy theory is typically idiotic historic re-write.

So you are saying the media lies…big surprise

If they did that what else did they do?

Good work DW News in helping to clarify misconceptions about WW2.

Nukes arnt real. Just a big bomb.

The idea that DW was the one to figure this out is a joke, this has been known literally since the end of the war. Most places just use the Nagasaki footage because there is no alternative.

Where can we find the real hiroshima footage

The man claiming the Nagasaki bomb was “immensely more powerful “ than the Hiroshima bomb is incorrect the official figures for the yields of the two bombs were respectively 25 and 15 kilotons. not an immense difference

It's chilling to see the genuine footage knowing it isn't a test site and that 1000s of people at the bottom of that mushroom have just been vapourised...

Fire bombs. 😂

I thought the bombs went off on separate days. Why are two mushrooms clouds?

So the dude took his camera to Walmart to get it developed and they ruined it on accident is what you're telling me basically? Uhhhhh Ok Ya everyone believes that.

And the one CNN showed the country was the wrong bomb, on accident?

So why would anyone believe anything from media at all?

This film mix-up is just the least significant of the false information about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki all along the information pipeline. Harry Truman in his radio address told the world that Hiroshima was principally a military headquarters, and that civilians may regrettably have to be targets in any subsequent A-bombings -- as though they had not just been targets.
Many historians have said Truman himself was misled by the military into believing he was ordering the bombings of a massive military site, with minimal civilian suffering, and he was furious when he found out the real story. It seems truth was the first, and last casualty of war.

See!!! The media lies!!!!!!

Violence is a human nature.

Nothing more than chemical explosives in a normal molecule explosion. Metals do not explode, they may burn poorly making more pollution than heat. First chapter of particle physics, the decay in a constant rate implies that no chain reaction may happen and that is very basic for all neutrons being lost.

What horrible weapon, now it's kept as a detergent in a few countries to not invade another country, we know Russia has threatened many countries like 60 times already.

"Lost the film"? Lol...

As a American I’m ashamed we did this 😞

It seems small compared to other nuclear bombs

What would have happened if the atomic bomb was dropped into the volcano of Mount Fuji?

Does it really matter? They used the best available footage to tell the story.

Nothing about American foreign policy, at least since WW II, if not before, is intended to be accurate- it’s all about “narrative”.

Doesn't the Peace Museum continue to use a photograph of natural cloud formation as a photograph of the mushroom cloud?

Now when i'm thinking about this, i wouldn't believe for 100% in anything, what we know about nuclear/hydrogen bombs today.

this reminds me of the moon landing footage XDDDD

Next target, russia? 😂

Uh oh. Looks like another lie coming to light but being brought into the gatekeeping rhealm. We lost it...we tapped over it...but thankfully we have new digitally remastered originals. Lol

“The photography is more persuasive…more convincing”….of what?

Nuking Nagasaki and Hiroshima was extremely strategic and was the best choice of action in that situation.