In this film, The End, Nuclear War Eduardo Viana creates a disturbing film about a modern nuclear war, but he also powerfully captures what people like John Wyndham must have felt after Hiroshima.
What it was like in Canada: Cold War Culture: The Nuclear Fear of the 1950s and 1960s
Atomic Bomb Cloud over Nagasaki
Of the 286,00 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries.
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Chenzei School - where are the students?
The Chinzei school from the east bank of the Urakami River. Although it appears that the building is intact, the entire roof had caved in.
Hiroshima
At 8:15 on August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Almost the entire city was devastated in that single moment.
To the crew of the Enola Gay, who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. The co-pilot, Captain Richard Lewis, commented, "My God, what have we done?"
Truman's public announcement in Washington, D.C., 16 hours after the attack, "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. It is an atomic bomb. We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth."
Cold War: A Brief History of The Hydrogen Bomb
Radiation Sickness
What does radiation do to the body?
Radiation causes atoms, the basic building block of the body's cells, to become electrically charged.
Information Suppressed
George Weller's account, serialised by Japan's Mainichi daily, describes the "wasteland" created and the suffering of victims of radiation sickness.
He was the first foreign reporter in the ravaged city, declared off-limits to journalists by the US occupiers.
The writings, rejected by US censors, were lost, but re-discovered last year.
