Sup Chapos

I found a video a while back that discussed whether the atomic bombing was justified or not, and what the real reasons were for Japan's surrender. It was not Shaun's video - it was much shorter and it had more of the Second Thought type of aesthetic.

The part of the video that I most remember was where the narrator basically broke down all of the cities that had been bombed prior to the atomic weapons and to the extent they had been bombed, and then compares that to the possibility of a second front with the soviet union. The narrator then asks the viewer to think about which events Japanese high command would give greater weight. I'm almost completely making up the numbers because I'm at work and pressed on time, but just to give an idea of what the video was like cuz I can't find it and I need y'all's help.

April 1945 - Tokyo 80% - Air raid

April 1945 - Kyoto 76% - Air raid

May 1945 - Yokohama 53% - Air raid

May 1945 - Toyama 99. 7% - Air raid

June 1945 - Nagoya 90% - Air raid

June 1945 - Osaka 40% - Air raid

July 1945 - Kagoshima 60% - Air raid

August 6 1945 - Hiroshima 50% - single new weapon

August 8 1945 - Second front with Soviet Union

August 9 1945 - Nagasaki 55% - single new weapon

This vid sound familiar to anyone?

  • T_Doug [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's from the Bob McNamara documentary "The Fog of War"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOCYcgOnWUM

    McNamara is very ghoulish, but he's very right insofar as him and LeMay were war criminals, and the bombing campaigns were grossly non-proportional.

    • Capt_ACAB [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      That's where I first heard about the astonishing numbers, and is a great doc, but no it was a breadtube adjacent video not a production film

      Oh if it helps, the narrator of the video referenced the diary of japanese officers discussing the possibility of a second front with the soviets