The Atom Strikes! Pt. 2 of 3
Map showing 1 mile radius from blast point. Further destruction scenes in Hiroshima. Steel bridge w/ lead paint stripped off. Red Cross Hospital w/ windows blown in & out. INT hospital - furniture intact but flash-burned. LS army vehicles along road thru ruins seen from roof of hospital. Concrete smoke-stack still standing. Temporary housing. Civilians walk & cycling past damaged buildings. VO criticising the Japanese for lack of zoning & overcrowding in city: “...all w/ no apparent regard for the safety of the civilian population”.
10:36:42 Map of Hiroshima showing radius of 1-1.5m, 1.5-2m & 2-6m from blast. Bomb-damaged buildings burned by secondary fires. Higaski Railroad Station in East Hiroshima - some damage but still in use, civilians outside. INT details of damage to station roof & walls. High school building w/ wall almost collapsing in. INT classroom w/ buckled walls. Views from school.
10:38:49 Hill in front of main building of Novitiative Jesuits four miles from “Zero Point” which lessened intensity of blast. Building on hill w/ windows smashed & wooden panelling damaged.
10:39:22 INT Jesuit missionary behind desk, gives eyewitness account (SOF) philosophy class evacuated from Tokyo to Hiroshima during war. “...suddenly I saw a light, like a magnesium light...I was covered w/ splinters from the window frame & glass sticking into the walls & into my flesh...I had the impression that the bomb had immediately crashed on the house...” He saw houses on fire & procession of wounded survivors, insufficient medical supplies - estimates death toll as 100,000. “Nobody to take charge after the disaster...” - no ill-effects from working in city after explosion - did not hear “a single outburst of hate against the Americans”. “...practically every Japanese admired the technical skill of the Americans”.
10:45:00 Interview continues. Missionary talks re varying views of Jesuits on atomic bomb & ethics.
Nuclear Warfare; Morality; Religion; Post-WWII Japan; Horrors of War;
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The Atom Strikes! Pt. 2 of 3 Map showing 1 mile radius from blast point. Further destruction scenes in Hiroshima. Steel bridge w/ lead paint stripped off. Red Cross Hospital w/ windows blown in & out. INT hospital - furniture intact but flash-burned. LS army vehicles along road thru ruins seen from roof of hospital. Concrete smoke-stack still standing. Temporary housing. Civilians walk & cycling past damaged buildings. VO criticising the Japanese for lack of zoning & overcrowding in city: “...all w/ no apparent regard for the safety of the civilian population”. 10:36:42 Map of Hiroshima showing radius of 1-1.5m, 1.5-2m & 2-6m from blast. Bomb-damaged buildings burned by secondary fires. Higaski Railroad Station in East Hiroshima - some damage but still in use, civilians outside. INT details of damage to station roof & walls. High school building w/ wall almost collapsing in. INT classroom w/ buckled walls. Views from school. 10:38:49 Hill in front of main building of Novitiative Jesuits four miles from “Zero Point” which lessened intensity of blast. Building on hill w/ windows smashed & wooden panelling damaged. 10:39:22 INT Jesuit missionary behind desk, gives eyewitness account (SOF) philosophy class evacuated from Tokyo to Hiroshima during war. “...suddenly I saw a light, like a magnesium light...I was covered w/ splinters from the window frame & glass sticking into the walls & into my flesh...I had the impression that the bomb had immediately crashed on the house...” He saw houses on fire & procession of wounded survivors, insufficient medical supplies - estimates death toll as 100,000. “Nobody to take charge after the disaster...” - no ill-effects from working in city after explosion - did not hear “a single outburst of hate against the Americans”. “...practically every Japanese admired the technical skill of the Americans”. 10:45:00 Interview continues. Missionary talks re varying views of Jesuits on atomic bomb & ethics. Nuclear Warfare; Morality; Religion; Post-WWII Japan; Horrors of War;