Three short works are shown which reveal in powerful and touching reality what it was like to endure the atomic bombings in Japan.
First is a 22 minute documentary, Hiroshima-Nagasaki," which contains movie footage in the cities after the bombs exploded. The documentary is so explicit and powerful that it was suppressed by the U.S. government for many years.
Next is a short work containing the drawings of children and adults depicting what they saw and experienced. Finally, an animated film is presented which is shown in Hiroshima each year to school children. Also provided is a review of a book which recounts the attempts by the American government to suppress the full details of the realities of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Definitely pay attention from 29:45. Here, they describe the first symptoms of radiation sickness and vegetation becoming mutated in the cities that experienced the bomb blasts.
"Hospitals filled with patients who did not seem sick before. They were vomiting, bleeding from the gums, and purple spots appeared on their skin. Some could not be touched because their skin slipped off in huge globe-like pieces. At first, they were quarantined. Victims of some mysterious infectious disease. Gradually, it was understood that the disease was radiation sickness and these people were special victims of the atomic bomb.... By the 20th day after the bomb, vegetation began to grow wildly in the wreckage of the cities."
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(Advance to 19:24 to see the films)
(Advance to 19:24 to see the films)
This cannot ever happen again. Let's work to make sure that it doesn't. Also, I'd like to add that it is too bad that the Alternative Information Network is no longer around. They were way ahead of their time. Had they been around when the Internet started, they might have been very successful.
Thanks to Frank Morrow.
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Keywords: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alternative Information Network, atomic bomb, Frank Morrow
