With the situation in Ukraine and Russia deadlocked, many netizens have speculated about the arrival of nuclear war. Although I personally believe that this will never happen, I still look back at the scene when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The event was a documentary produced by the BBC in the form of interviews and memories. At that time, the first-hand information of the atomic bomb explosion and its subsequent effects were also in the hands of the beautiful countries and were not made public. But the level of shock of this event is still an important reference for our horrors about nuclear war.
At the end of July 1945, japan was at the end of the war, and since they opened up the Pacific Theater and chose to divide their forces, they were already doomed to defeat. The Allies issued an ultimatum to Japan with the Potsdam Declaration, but Japan was trying to make a final showdown on its own!
They began to train native soldiers to die with the Allies.
Ordinary soldiers began training to quickly run under the tank with explosive packs on their backs to blow up the tank
The young teenager began training to turn himself into a human bomb
Even girls are trained to stab at scarecrows
Without the deterrence of the atomic bomb, the Allies would have also won, but in the face of the Japanese mainland's crazy counterattack before death, it would also cause great casualties. So President Harry Truman decided to test their newly developed weapon, the atomic bomb.
The atomic bomb at that time had only been successfully tested once, was large and bulky, and was said to weigh 4 tons and was more than two meters long. Therefore, dropping atomic bombs requires the most secure airdrop by aircraft. But with the conditions of flight of the aircraft at that time, it was a very dangerous thing to take off with such a heavy atomic bomb. They chose a group of pilots with the best flying skills at the time.
The commander of the bomb-throwing mission, Paul Thebes
According to the regulations, the person responsible for dropping the bomb had the right to name the plane, so he named it after his mother, hoping that his mother would bring him good luck.
They had been secretly training for a long time before flying. Because the radar positioning technology at that time was not yet developed, the pilots mainly relied on the naked eye to see the bombs, but if there were clouds in the sky, they would block their view. So the weather became their preferred goal.
They chose Niigata, Kokura, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, of which Hiroshima was a militarized city with a large number of armaments. In order to be able to take off successfully, experienced Paul pilots let the aircraft taxi at a speed of 150 miles per hour on the ground in order to obtain more airflow, knowing that the atomic bomb with a load of 4 tons is a dangerous thing to take off if it is not flying fast enough to crash.
The mission departed at night, and it took up to 6 hours to fly to Japan, and it was exactly 8.00 or so in Japan to get there, and they had just gone to work, when the crowd was exposed to the most, and the casualties and damage would be the greatest.
People are going to work, soldiers are, they're all completely exposed
The pilots put on their goggles and prepared to drop the bomb, and the high-strength flash would instantly light up the blind man's eyes.
They set up a timing system for the atomic bomb and started the explosion after 45 seconds. The atomic bomb was operated according to the reaction principle of nuclear fission. Ignited with ordinary explosives, a large amount of pressure is generated, so as to push the uranium projectile inside, and after hitting the uranium standard in front, nuclear fission will occur, causing a chain reaction and releasing huge energy.
The power of an atomic bomb detonating in the air is much greater than that detonated on the ground. Much of the energy detonated by the ground is absorbed by the ground.
Momentary glare can blind a person. People within a relatively close range of the explosion will vaporize instantaneously. As we call it, there is no bone left.
A little farther away from the explosion is charred by high temperatures and carbonized. That is to say, the skin has long been gone, and there is a scorched corpse dominated by carbon.
Because most of the Japanese buildings at that time were wooden structures, it was easier to catch fires at high temperatures, so it was difficult to escape the fire even if it was far from the center of the explosion.
The instant after the atomic bomb explosion is easy and painless, and it is the most painful to survive. Due to the high temperature fire, some survivors have severe respiratory injuries, they are extremely dehydrated, and they need to drink water to relieve the pain of burning, but the charred respiratory tract will cause inflammation and painful death.
The high temperature causes the surface moisture to evaporate rapidly to the sky, and the dust left by the explosion and combustion is also impacted into the air, and the water vapor encounters the dust and condenses into small black droplets. The black rain with a large amount of radioactive elements fell, and hungry survivors tried to drink the rainwater, not knowing that the radioactive elements would destroy their cells, DNA, and cause them to have incurable radiation sequelae.
Survivors of radioactive element erosion, the cells are destroyed, the coagulation function is seriously impaired, the doctor is difficult to stop the bleeding point, and the cell epidermis begins to fall off and ulcerate, which is a manifestation of cell necrosis before it is too late to renew. Soon after the hair begins to fall out, the hair follicles of the scalp have lost their activity and it is difficult to grasp the hair anymore.
These are only superficial symptoms. Places farther away from the explosion may be exposed to weak nuclear radiation, which will greatly increase their risk of leukemia and cancer. It is said that the beautiful country once took a group of survivors, most of whom were children, to study the sequelae of radiation on their bodies, and called them treatment. But we all knew they had become guinea pigs.
Therefore, the harm of nuclear war is the biggest harm we have recognized so far, and it is easy not to use it. If it were used to wage an unjust war, it would be a sinner of history, when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was so tense and nuclear bombs were not used, let alone now.