[Script Info]
Title: 
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only place we were able to escape\Nit was the river that runs behind our school.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.52,0:00:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Near the station,\Nabout two miles from the flash,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teruko Fujii thought her tram had\Nshort-circuited on the overhead cables,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the whole thing was her fault.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.12,0:00:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that I'd caused\Nsome kind of disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.08,0:00:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I'd broken the tram\Nand done something terrible!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.08,0:00:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I thought, is it a bomb?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.84,0:01:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was when I realised it wasn't me\Nwho'd caused all this trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.04,0:01:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First I thought only\Nthe station area was affected.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.76,0:01:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I saw people\Nwalking towards me with injuries,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and skin hanging from them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.76,0:01:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody thought, perhaps\Nif I go over there, I could be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.76,0:01:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People to the west thought\Nthe east might be better.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.36,0:01:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were going in\Nevery direction, in total silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.96,0:01:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amid all the destruction,\Nthere was at least one miracle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.96,0:01:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight-year-old\NTakashi Tanemori was carried
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.60,0:01:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the burning city\Nby the soldier who rescued him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.96,0:01:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At last, the soldier reached the river,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.80,0:01:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from the crowds,\Nthe little boy heard a familiar voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.92,0:02:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow my father spotted me!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.32,0:02:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess he called my name,\Nand maybe I responded,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.28,0:02:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, that's my daddy!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.28,0:02:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he stood straight\Nto the soldiers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.20,0:02:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he bowed many, many times\Nto the soldiers, said, thank you!You are saviour!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.48,0:02:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later on, after we were flying back,\Nconversation started about,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.84,0:02:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the war being over,\Nas a result of this bombing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.44,0:02:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite the number of people we killed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.60,0:02:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saved multiple numbers\Nover that from being in a war,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.56,0:02:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being killed, on America's side,\Nand on the Japanese side.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.76,0:03:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That time, there was such\Na hatred for the Japanese,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.88,0:03:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the more we killed,\Nthe better off we thought we were,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.48,0:03:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that means\Nthere's going to be less
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.24,0:03:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're going to have\Nto contend with during the invasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.84,0:03:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a six-hour return flight,\Nthe Enola Gay reached Tinian Island.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.64,0:03:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following...\NThree, four, 500 people there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.48,0:03:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we got out of the airplane,\Nof course we were all getting out,we're tired
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.08,0:03:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I get out, I remember getting out,\Ncarrying my oxygen mask,I'm right behind Paul,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.84,0:03:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then some joker\Ncalls us to attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.92,0:03:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got out of the airplane,like I was told,\Nhe pins this thing on my shirt,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.84,0:03:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guys are taking pictures of us,I saluted,\Nand after that was over with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm back to my duty.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.44,0:03:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to go to de-briefing,\Nby the intelligence people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.92,0:04:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had certain things to ask,did you see this,\Nand did you see that, and so forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.56,0:04:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Confirming that we had bombed\Nthe right target.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.84,0:04:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.36,0:04:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr Hida escaped from the rubble of\Nthe farmhouse four miles outside Hiroshima.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.92,0:04:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After checking on the child\Nhe had been treating,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.48,0:04:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he headed back towards the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.48,0:04:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about six kilometres\Nto Hiroshima from there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.44,0:04:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was halfway there, suddenly\Na strange creature appeared out of nowhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.28,0:04:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As it was summer, if it were human,\Nit would have been wearing white.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.20,0:05:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I saw was all black,\Nfrom top to bottom. Pitch black.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.08,0:05:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I though it was strange.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.64,0:05:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the top there was something round,like a head. It had shoulders,something like a body followed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.76,0:05:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was like it had no face.\NIt was black.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.40,0:05:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The area around the eyes had swollen up,\Nit had no nose,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.84,0:05:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lower half of the face was just mouth!\NIt was frightening!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.84,0:05:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a doctor,the first thing you do\Nis take a pulse.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.40,0:05:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I took his hand,\Nthere was no skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was nowhere I could hold.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.00,0:05:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I stood up, saying, please,pull yourself together,and walked around him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.00,0:05:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This person gave a small shudder,\Nand then he stopped moving. He had died.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.48,0:06:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had fled three kilometres,\Nand then he died there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.48,0:06:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That man was the first fatality\Ncaused by the bomb, that I saw.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.60,0:06:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Army recruit, Shigeru Terasawa,had been\Nstationed seven milesfrom the centre of the blast.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.80,0:06:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His unit was sent to help survivors,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.12,0:06:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they soon\Nfaced a terrible conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.84,0:06:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between their compassion\Nand their training.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.24,0:06:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even now there are things\Nthat I will never forget.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.04,0:06:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is the sound of people\Nbegging me for water.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.20,0:07:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those days,we had been told\Nnot to give water to the badly burned.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To tell you the truth,we all had these big,\Nmilitary water flasks on our hips.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.48,0:07:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were begging for water,\Nbut we didn't give them any.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.28,0:07:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had been told that if we did,\Nthey would die straight away.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.24,0:07:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I didn't give them any.\NA lot of people died.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.28,0:07:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, looking back,\NI wish I had given them water.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.00,0:07:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burned, and bleeding,\Nin the intense heat,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.00,0:07:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people were desperate\Nto find any water they could.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.84,0:07:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They fled to the rivers,\Nto pools, and reservoirs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.56,0:07:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among them, nurse Kinuko.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.48,0:07:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew there was a pool of water,\Nin the back yard of the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.96,0:08:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of people had already got into the pool.\NMore people had jumped on top of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.52,0:08:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people underneath drowned.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.92,0:08:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one scene I can never forget.\NI still dream about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came a strange deliverance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.68,0:08:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dark raindrops began to fall\Nfrom the clouds above the burning city.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.20,0:09:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We opened our mouths, and drank it.\NOur throats were parched,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.88,0:09:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was difficult to capture\Nthe rain into our mouths.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.32,0:09:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rain had been made\Nblack by ash and smoke
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.16,0:09:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had been sucked into\Nthe rising mushroom cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.60,0:09:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When these ashes mixed with cool,\Nhumid air in the upper atmosphere,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.88,0:09:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they formed thick, black raindrops,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.36,0:09:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fell back down on to the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.76,0:09:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drops of rain were big enough to hurt,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.80,0:09:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they hit your skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.00,0:09:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It descended in a torrent. Black fluid flowed\Nwhere the rain fell.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.40,0:09:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was raining black fluid.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the people\Nwho drank the rain didn't realise,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.24,0:09:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that it was highly radioactive.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.72,0:10:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In time, it would poison many thousands.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.24,0:10:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the day the bomb was dropped,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.32,0:10:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President Truman was still\Ntravelling home from Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.68,0:10:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On our way back, on the Augusta,\Nreturning to Washington,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.24,0:10:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were on the edge of our chairs,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.40,0:10:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we expected any day:\Nany time, any day,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.32,0:10:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a flash from the War Department\Nthat the first bomb had been dropped.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.60,0:10:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on August 6th,as we were one day out from Norfolk,that flash came.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.48,0:10:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Elsie decoded the telegram
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.60,0:10:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brought the news\Nto President Truman on the Augusta.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.64,0:11:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When something like that came,\Nwe would walk in to him immediately,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.40,0:11:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we would interrupt\Nwhatever he was doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.40,0:11:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He happened to be having lunch with the crew,\Nat that point.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.12,0:11:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took it to Truman,\Nwho showed it to Secretary Burns,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.24,0:11:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to Admiral Leyhey,\Nand Truman announced to the ship's crew
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.32,0:11:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this great accomplishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.20,0:11:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have dropped a single bomb\Non the Japanese city of Hiroshima,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.04,0:11:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the power of 20,000 tons of TNT.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.08,0:11:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city has been completely destroyed!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.84,0:11:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was cheering, cheering by the crew,and by\Nthe officers,when he read it in the officers' mess.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.56,0:11:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Augusta was one of the ships\Nthat was destined for the Pacific,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.60,0:11:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would have been involved in the invasion.\NThe crew knew that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.36,0:12:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just about everybody who was in Europe knew\Nthat they would be headed for the Pacific,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.84,0:12:02.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an invasion of Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were just as\Noverjoyed as the President was,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.00,0:12:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this damned thing is over!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.76,0:12:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hope this will be\Na warning to the Japanese military!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.16,0:12:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come on, boys, we're going home!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.28,0:12:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was eager to get home,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.28,0:12:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was sure that the\NJapanese surrender would come very soon.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.28,0:12:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In case there was any doubt,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.04,0:12:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Truman spelt it out to\Nthe Japanese High Command.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.80,0:12:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was to spare the Japanese people\Nform otter destruction
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.92,0:12:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the ultimatum of July 26th\Nwas issued at Potsdam.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.16,0:12:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their leaders promptly\Nrejected that ultimatum.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.24,0:12:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they do not now accept our terms,\Nthey may expect a rain of war,from the air,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.72,0:12:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the like of which has never\Nbeen seen on this earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.08,0:13:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Late that afternoon, the mayor of Hiroshima,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.40,0:13:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issued his own proclamation.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.36,0:13:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The present catastrophe is the result of\Na horrible and inhuman air raid.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.48,0:13:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The enemy's intention is clearly to undermine\Nthe fighting spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.00,0:13:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Japanese people.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.84,0:13:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Citizens of Hiroshima,\Nthe damage is great,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.32,0:13:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that is only to\Nbe expected during a war.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.28,0:13:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep up your spirits. Do not lose heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.44,0:14:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The morning after the bomb,\Na full-scale rescue effort began.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.64,0:14:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Squads of soldiers from surrounding garrisons\Nwere drafted in to help.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.84,0:14:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They collected the dead bodies and\Ndisposed of them
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.32,0:14:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before disease could spread.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.36,0:15:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wounded were quickly\Ntaken away for treatment.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.32,0:15:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makeshift hospitals were set up,although\Nthere were only a handful of medical staff.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.00,0:15:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr Hida found himself\Ntreating 3,000 survivors
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.76,0:15:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a village outside Hiroshima.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.60,0:15:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first we had no medicine,\Nno equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.64,0:15:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was nothing we doctors could do.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.92,0:15:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, we gathered up some things,\Nand started treating the burns.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.00,0:15:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nurse Kinuko had an extraordinary escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.96,0:15:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know whether I was\Nunconscious for hours or for days.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.68,0:15:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I did come round,\NI thought, so, I'm still alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.00,0:15:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God must have given me strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.28,0:16:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She woke to find that\Nshe had been thrown into a mass grave.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.08,0:16:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I crawled out of the hole,\NI managed to cross the road,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.20,0:16:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get to the entrance of the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.52,0:16:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took me a terribly long time,\Nas I could not stand,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.88,0:16:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor lift my arms,\Nor move them to the side.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.64,0:16:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I crawled like an insect,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.64,0:16:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally reached\Nthe hospital entrance.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.16,0:16:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dr Hinoki from the pharmacy spotted me,\Nand exclaimed,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.96,0:16:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're still alive!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.08,0:16:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He picked me up,\Nand carried me to the surgery area.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.16,0:17:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The corridor was full of people\Nlying side by side.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.20,0:17:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was where they operated on me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.48,0:17:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and removed all of the large pieces\Nof glass that were stuck in me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.28,0:17:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over the city, relatives searched\Nthe ruins for signs of survivors.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.32,0:17:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before midday,\Nmy friend's father came to get us.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.36,0:17:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my friend,\Nwho had escaped from the bank with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.52,0:17:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turned out to have a broken spine.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.84,0:18:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She died a week later.\NShe was a year younger than me.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.16,0:18:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am nearly 80 years old now,\Nbut she was only 18 at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.60,0:18:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whenever I think of her,\Nshe is still 18 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.48,0:18:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a very pretty, gently person.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.32,0:18:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.76,0:18:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.48,0:18:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.80,0:18:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.56,0:18:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.40,0:19:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.48,0:19:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.60,0:19:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.72,0:19:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.00,0:19:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.36,0:19:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.08,0:19:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.80,0:19:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Untranslated subtitle -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.88,0:19:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three days after the Hiroshima bomb,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.40,0:19:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite all the destruction,\NJapan still hadn't surrendered.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.48,0:20:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A second bomb was made ready,\Nand Truman issued another warning.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.40,0:20:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world will note that the first atomic bomb\Nwas dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.16,0:20:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Japan does not surrender,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.04,0:20:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombs will have to be dropped\Non more industries.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.44,0:20:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I urge Japanese civilians to leave\Nindustrial cities immediately,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.88,0:20:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and save themselves from destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.56,0:20:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realise the tragic significance\Nof the atomic bomb.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.20,0:20:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having found the atomic bomb,\Nwe have used it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.12,0:20:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have used it against those who attacked us,\Nwithout warning, at Pearl Harbour.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.48,0:20:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against those who have starved, and beaten,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.92,0:20:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and executed American prisoners of war.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.44,0:20:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against those who have abandoned all pretence\Nof obeying international laws of warfare.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.08,0:21:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have used it in order to\Nshorten the agony of war,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.28,0:21:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to save the lives of thousands\Nand thousands of young Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.16,0:21:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A second bomb was intended\Nfor the city of Kokura,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.20,0:21:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was too cloudy,\Nso the plane moved on to Nagasaki.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.40,0:21:38.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Desperately short of fuel,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.52,0:21:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the crew released the bomb,\Ndespite more clouds.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.08,0:21:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bomb missed the aiming point,\Nand fell into a valley.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.04,0:21:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time there was no firestorm,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.72,0:21:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even so,\Nmore than 50,000 people were killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.68,0:22:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Supreme War Direction Council in Tokyo\Nwas meeting on the same day.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.24,0:22:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By now, the Russians had\Ndeclared war on Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.76,0:22:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came the news from Nagasaki.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.64,0:23:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, Prime Minister Suzuki\Ndid something unheard of.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.76,0:23:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked the Emperor to break the deadlock,\Nand make a decision.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.88,0:23:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emperor Hirohito told them he wanted to\Nend the suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.60,0:23:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bear the unbearable.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.92,0:23:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four days later,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.40,0:23:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,radical soldiers attempted a coup,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.28,0:24:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prevent the surrender. They failed.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.76,0:24:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At dawn on the day that Emperor Hirohito\Nwas to broadcast an announcement
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.04,0:24:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Japanese people\Nthat the war was over,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.48,0:24:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,General Anami prepared to end his life
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.16,0:24:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the time-honoured tradition of seppuku.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.40,0:24:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His suicide note read:
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.96,0:24:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My death is my apology for my great crime. "
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.64,0:24:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The war was over.\NAt last the troops were going home.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.28,0:24:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was jubilation around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.88,0:25:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, came something that would\Nforever change perception of the bomb.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.80,0:25:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It started in the hospitals.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.84,0:25:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mysterious illness began to spread.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.08,0:25:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed it from about the fourth day.\NOf course, it had been there all along,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.28,0:25:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I thought people\Nwere dying of severe burns.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.96,0:25:48.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The woman who lost her children in the fires,\NShigei Hiratsuka, and her husband,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.24,0:25:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were amongst those affected.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.88,0:25:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They lined my bed up next to my husband's,\Nand took his test first.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.32,0:26:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they had taken enough blood for\Nthe sample,they withdrew the needle.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.08,0:26:12.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the blood wouldn't stop.\NNothing worked, whatever they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.72,0:26:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even when they applied pressure,\Nhe carried on bleeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.04,0:26:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During this time, purple spots began\Nbreaking out
Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.16,0:26:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over my husband's body.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.76,0:26:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He then vomited\Na large amount of brown liquid.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.56,0:26:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afterwards he went limp,\Nand died an hour later.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.36,0:26:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had managed to survive that far,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.92,0:26:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then even he was taken away from me.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.52,0:27:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her husband was one of thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.36,0:27:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would die from\Nthis new and untreatable condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.56,0:27:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were rotting. It was necrosis.\NThere were no white blood cells,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.60,0:27:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the blood had no power\Nto fight against infection,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.00,0:27:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, suddenly, the rotting set in.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.00,0:27:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the end, the hair would start to fall out.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.04,0:27:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you put your hand\Non the patient's head,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.52,0:27:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tufts of hair would come away in your hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.36,0:27:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It emerged that those\Nwho were worst affected
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.44,0:27:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been close to the hyper centre,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.00,0:27:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or had swallowed radioactive material,\Nlike the people who drank the black rain.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.72,0:27:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In hindsight, we realised\Nthat it was radiation,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.00,0:28:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but at that time,\Nwe didn't know what it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.16,0:28:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Radiation sickness has become the single\Nmost disturbing legacy of the bomb.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.72,0:28:11.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American scientist had always known\Nthe bomb would produce radiation,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.24,0:28:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the scale of the after effects\Ncame as a shocking surprise.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:45.12,0:28:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today Hiroshima is a thriving city\Nof over a million people.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.72,0:28:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Japan, too, has been transformed\Ninto a prosperous country
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.72,0:29:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has renounced the use of war entirely.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.56,0:29:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although no one has used\Na nuclear weapon since,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.08,0:29:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arguments continue as to the\Nmorality of dropping the bomb.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.24,0:29:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was it really necessary?\NCould it have been avoided?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.80,0:29:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nation had no rice to eat,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.00,0:29:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people had not eaten\Nwhite rice for a whole year.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.12,0:29:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could such a country go to battle?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.04,0:29:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Americans knew that, very well,\Nand still dropped the atomic bomb. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.80,0:29:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an experiment!They knew that\Nthe bomb had enormous explosive power.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.28,0:29:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What they did not know was\Nhow much damage the radiation would cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.40,0:29:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some scientists thought they knew,\Nbut they had not tested it,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.00,0:29:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they made an experiment, to find out,\Nby testing it on human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.44,0:30:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The final decision that resulted in\Nthe two bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:04.52,0:30:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not made in Potsdam,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.20,0:30:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't made by Truman,\Nit was made by the Japanese militarists
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.40,0:30:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they rejected any opportunity\Nto surrenderjust their armed forces,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.96,0:30:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and save further massive loss of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:27.16,0:30:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today there are just a few places that
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.24,0:30:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bear the scars of August 6th 1945.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.44,0:30:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are burn marks on trees,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.72,0:30:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shadow of a vaporised man, left on stone.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.84,0:30:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First hand memories are fading too.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.80,0:30:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Akiko Takakura, the bank clerk,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.60,0:31:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been just 260 metres\Nfrom the hyper centre,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.36,0:31:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the last witnesses\Nto the full horror of the bomb.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.76,0:31:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a department store called Sogo,\Nin Hiroshima,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.32,0:31:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I stop sometimes for tea.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.48,0:31:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the tearoom,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.84,0:31:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can see the road from the bank\Nto the drill ground, where we escaped.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.36,0:31:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see old people\Nwalking happily down the street.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.00,0:31:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young people holding hands,\Nand enjoying each other's conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.20,0:31:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children holding their parents' hands,\Nand looking happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.60,0:31:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think about those awful scenes\Nthat I experienced, many years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.92,0:31:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now, and all the people\Nthat lost their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.80,0:31:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think to myself, what was all that?\NDid it really happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.80,0:32:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every year, on 6th August,\Nthere are ceremonies
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.68,0:32:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recall what took place on that day,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:14.92,0:32:17.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure that\Nthese events are never forgotten,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.96,0:32:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or repeated.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.52,0:32:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At sunset, tens of thousands of candles\Nare released on the river in Hiroshima,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.96,0:32:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each candle representing\Nthe soul of one of the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.43,0:32:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org