0:05 on August the 6th 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the bomb that was dropped on hirosima was named little boy and it was designed to detonate before hitting the ground the city had a population of around 350,000 people the initial explosion killed over 78,000 people but some would say that these were the lucky ones it's the accounts of people who survived that truly describe a hell on Earth and it's those accounts that I'm going to be exploring today hello everybody shrouded hand here this is the horror of the Hiroshima bomb the accounts in this video come from Charles pelegrino's book to hell back the last train from Hiroshima if you want to hear more stories like this I recommend reading the book because this video only scratches the surface of the nightmares described a short time ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on hirosima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT
1:32 we have spent more than $2 billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history and we have won Akiko takakura and her friend assami were inside the Gaby bank and they were just about to open when the bomb detonated although they were relatively close to the hypo Center just some 250 M away the tank sturdy granite and concrete structure provided significant protection against the deadly Atomic rays and the advancing shock wave nonetheless when the shock wave hit Akiko felt a painful squeezing sensation in her lungs a armi was thrown against a wall and compressed like an accordion
2:19 then the decorative cladding on the wall burst into shards of granite shrap null Akiko would later recall drifting in and out of conscious ious during the first few minutes after the explosions her lungs achd and she struggled to comprehend what was happening to her body then came an overwhelming thirst unlike anything that they'd ever experienced the bomb's explosion had instantly caused water to evaporate from Rivers ponds and all exposed surfaces within a 2 kilm radius stripping moisture from every living thing caught in the flashh even those who were inside buildings they managed us to fill air raid helmets with water from a ruptured pipe but no matter how much they drank their thirst only became more intense within a short while the air inside the bank became unbearably hot and the women decided that they must evacuate at 8:25 a.m. 10 minutes after the explosion they finally managed to step outside and they saw the extent of the devastation the sun had completely
3:28 disappeared and the landcape was bathed in red caused by fire rising from the remnants of buildings that had been reduced to burning rubble a Kiko looked down the streets and at first it appeared to be empty but then she noticed the charred remains of people who had been walking towards the bank when the bomb detonated there were blackened scorched bodies collapsed over each other as far as she could see several bodies had crumpled apart like sacks of burning leaves spilled under the ground others had been reduced to charcoal and piles of burning wax nearby Akiko saw the body of a man who was still standing he appeared to have been flash fossilized whilst pulling a large two- wheel cart inside the cart she saw the bodies of two charcoal crusted children they were sitting clutching their knees overwhelmed she crouched down in the street trying to comprehend what she was seeing and then she noticed something on the ground next to her
4:30 something that had remained soft and fleshy it was a hand its fingers sticking up and burning like candles the fat being drawn to the fingertips from the tissues below at this point it began to rain and as the drops fell the intense thirst returned forcing Akiko and Asami to turn their faces towards the sky and drink the rain opening their mouths as wide as possible the water tasted foul when Akiko looked at down at her arm she noticed that the water was staining her skin black the rain was thick and repulsive like crude oil but The Thirst was so overwhelming that they just continued to drink the city's vaporized moisture had ascended into the stratosphere here it had absorbed the stratospheric sot and radioactive particles from the bomb's cloud and begun to descend again it was extremely toxic ingesting even small amounts of it delivered a deadly do of radioactive material whilst Akiko survived Asami would quickly succumb to radiation sickness and
5:45 perish a boy named Hiroshi ETO was in school when the bomb was dropped 5 minutes after the explosion he managed to emerge unscathed through the roof of his collapsed School hirosi stepped out into a mist of black fog all the other boys around hirosi appeared to be severely burned the toxic black mist and the Black Rain sent him and about 40 other students running to a nearby swimming pool crying for help on the swimming pool's floor Hiroshi saw rows of school girls slumped at the water's edge the girls were dying one after another most of them wore only white shirts their dark pants had ignited when the flash came and had burned away along with the skin on their legs when he later climbed out of the pool everywhere he looked he saw burned school children moving in an eerie silence like automatons they had blistered eyes and lips covered in black ash they appeared to be resigned strangely lifeless despite still being alive hosi looked across the river to
6:58 the opposite Shore and he saw hordes of people fleeing from the direction of the violent fires falling into the river like swarms of insects Riverside houses began collapsing into the water and soon the people in the river were overtaken by burning debris the ground around hirosi began to erupt into spontaneous fires panicked he ran in random directions and desperate to get away a 13-year-old boy named yoshikata also managed to survive the collapse of his school cocooned in an air pocket he was able to push his way to the surface almost immediately after the blast and he saw a massive mushroom cloud towering over the city all around him among the bricks and the rubble he saw other children half buried and dying dozens of burned hands reached out grabing at Yoshi's feet and shins desperate to get his attention this was too much for him and
8:05 Yoshi Kata panicked he kicked out at the hands reaching up from the rubble and he ran as fast as he could into the smoke nearly 2 kilomet away from the hypo Center Mrs Sasaki was in her garden when the flash occurred she emerged from the rubble holding her 2-year-old daughter s Darko in her hands somehow they were both uninjured years later Mrs Sasaki felt grateful that her daughter didn't remember much of what they'd seen that day she never spoke to her daughter about the horrors that they'd witnessed especially the tap dancer who'd ran past them moments after the explosion initially Mrs Sasaki thought
8:53 that everyone around them had disappeared then she noticed a strange man climbing out of a the collapsed house he got up and ran past them towards the curtain of whirling smoke and Sparks he didn't cry for help and he appeared to be unaware of anything or anyone around him the only sound he made was a rmic click clacking as he ran down the road as if he was tap dancing down the street with metal Taps on his shoes then Mrs haki noticed that he wasn't wearing any shoes in instead where his feet should have been there were two bony stumps as he ran these protruding bones tapped against the pavement chipping and fracturing with each step soon the man disappeared into a cloud of smoke and the nightmarish tapping faded into the
9:52 distance a soldier named nishioka was stationed outside the city he heard the bomb going off and he saw a huge mushroom cloud Rising above Hiroshima shortly afterwards from the direction of the city a train came running in all of the Train's coaches had lost their Windows most of the passengers inside were burned to death except for a few stunned people who gathered by the empty Windows looking out with blank Expressions on their faces the coaches were all smoldering at least two were completely engulfed in Flames the soldiers looked on stunned as the train rolled past them it didn't stop the engineer at the front looked like a scarecrow his clothes blooded and tattered he leaned out of the Portside window vomiting out a foaming stream of bile the soldiers managed to stop the train and they took command of the locomotive they decided to head back towards Hiroshima the soldier nishioka went with them within minutes nishioka
11:03 and the other soldiers encountered lines of people walking along the railroad tracks away from the city the engine pressed on blowing its whistle to clear people off the tracks the further they got into the city the worse the burns on the Walking wounded Gods there were more and more people looking like The Walking Dead shuffling along constantly murmuring water water they moved in a mechanical manner forming long Trails one horribly burned person after another slowly navigating through the smoke due to their burned blackened skin and their automaton likee movements many survivors would later refer to them as the ant
11:52 Walkers another Soldier private shigo shimoyama was about six blocks away from that the hypo Center when the explosion came as look would have it he just stepped into a concrete reinforced Warehouse the force of the wave tossed him against the back wall saving him from being crushed under a collapsing roof outside the warehouse his fellow soldiers had all vanished in the blink of an eye when he regained Consciousness to his horror he discovered that he was hanging about a meter above the ground his arms and shoulders were impaled on nails ruding from the wall when he finally broke free and emerged from the rubble he saw in the distance a group of bureaucrats struggling through the wreckage these bureaucrats were carrying a life-sized portrait of the emperor away from the burning remains of the castle then on the river shigo noticed a naval boat navigating through the de and bodies the boat slowed down and stopped the crew gathered on deck to salute the
13:00 portrait of the emperor this gesture seemed to stir something within the ant people and many of these horribly burned people turned towards the portrait and bowed their heads when he finally turned around shigo found himself standing face to face with a horse this horse was Strang looking it was pinkish white and it took Shiro a moment to realize what he was looking at all of the horse's skin and fur were gone this was caused by something known as de gloving a phenomenon where the skin when exposed to a wave of compressed supersonic air is pulled off like a leather glove being pulled from a hand the animal didn't appear to be in any pain but the sight horrified sharo so much that he began to run away from the area every time he glanced back over his shoulder he saw this skinless horse following him staring at the soldier pleadingly before the explosion father Matias heard two planes overhead revving their engines as if they were trying to
14:10 escape something he doesn't know what happened after that when he regained Consciousness he realized that he joined hundreds of other dazed half naked people and he'd become one of the ant Walkers he looked at the man in front of him and he noticed that his was hanging Loosely from his back like pieces of tattered shirts all of the Flesh on his forearms had been Stripped Away revealing blackened bones father maias aimlessly followed this Walking Corpse until he bumped into the frame of a charred street car inside the car father Matias saw the scorched remains of a family then he noticed movements an unborn baby struggling inside its dead mother mother the horrified father Matias stumbled away he didn't know where he was going he just wanted to get away from the smoldering car as fast as he could he noticed more than a dozen ant people had formed a line behind him and began to follow he didn't know how long he'd been walking but suddenly a noise
15:20 from above caught his attention he looked up and he saw the corner of a three-story brick apartment building it was the only structure still standing three naked children clung to the top of the tower screaming hysterically one of them seemed to be completely covered in blood father maias continued walking as he reached the river the first rescue boats began pulling corpses from the water waiting in he noticed a woman carrying her child towards him pleading for the infant to open his eyes when the woman stepped into the water her skin and muscles began to Fall Away from Her Bones at this moment father matias's numbness began to crack and he was overwhelmed by a sense of guilt that's when he started to think about the three children that he'd seen on top of the tower every day for the rest of his life he wondered what had happened to them each night they were the last thing that he thought about before falling asleep
16:23 and his dreams were plagued with their screams suomi yamagushi a ship designer was nearly 3 kilomet from Ground Zero when a bright flash almost blinded him instinctively he dove into an irrigation ditch and covered his head the ground shook violently tossing him nearly a meter into the air when yamagushi looked out burning paper and smoldering clothes were falling from the sky one side of his body felt intensely hard the Exposed Skin on his left arm was burnt Brown and looked like an overcooked chicken he was suddenly overcome by an
17:08 intense thirst and he ran towards the river despite the coppery scent of blood and the presence of floating corpses Yamaguchi drank the water he noticed that the bodies in the river appeared to have unnaturally long arms almost twice as long as normal a upon closer inspection he realized that the Flesh on their shoulders and arms had melted and peeled away from the bones floating on the surface of the water like broken cobwebs still connected to the people by their fingertips by the river he encountered a group of children who he would later refer to as the pierced boys at first he thought that their burned and lacerated backs had sprouted some kind of strange hair but as he looked closer he realized that these weren't hairs long thin blackened glass shards had been driven into the boy's flesh by the shock wave he tried to help these children advising them to pull these shards from each other's backs but this proved to be
18:15 extremely difficult their children began to grow weaker and they seemed to be dying one after another all around him people moved in a zombie like fashion driven by an overwhelming thirst they lay down at the river and drank the foul smelling water before wandering off aimlessly into the Smoke by this point Yamaguchi no longer cared about his military duties or the war efforts all he wanted to do was to get home to see his wife and son as he wed through the devastated landscape he saw one horror after another a mother singing a lby to her dead child a horse's head burning with an aery blue green flame he had to cross two rivers on his way home one of these Rivers no longer had a bridge but there were so many corpses piled up in the shallows that they formed a kind of Natural Dam that he had to cross the experience of crawling over these burned bodies to cross the river was extremely traumatic for the rest of his life he would revisit that bridge in his nightmares
19:31 walking in a State of Shock akah hero Takahashi a 14-year-old boy was only madly burned compared to the rest of the population he followed street car tracks past a wrecked corpse filled trolleys until he heard a friend calling his name as he headed off towards his friend a line of ant people began to form behind him his friend was so severely poisoned by radiation that his teeth were falling out akahira would later say that before he died his belly turned purple and he vomited a continuous stream of blue gray substance on his journey through the city akah hero saw many disturbing things he encountered a woman with her eyeball dangling on her cheek and he saw a skinned horse with exposed bloody muscle lying dead in a waterfill system as walked through the devastation dozens of people followed him although most of them no longer looked like humans he was so horrified by these ant Walkers that he tried to distance himself from them but it seemed that
20:43 with every Twist and Turn of his journey new nightmares awaited him he ran past the body of a young mother who had been completely de gloved with her screaming infant lying next to her this baby somehow was still alive despite its entire skin being turned to charcoal and this wasn't the last or even the worst horror that akihiro encountered on his way he would later say that there were other sites that were so horrifying that words can't describe them the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings was as harrowing as the explosions the cities were reduced to smoldering ruins with just a few structures left standing and almost no life the initial death toll from the blasts was staggering but the long-term consequences were equally devastating the survivors known as hiusa faced not only the physical horror of their injuries but also the lasting effects of radiation exposure many survivors developed acute radiation sickness which manifested as nausea hair
21:54 loss and severe burns that healed slowly if at all in the weeks and months that followed the death toll continued to rise as infections organ failure and Cancers claimed many more lives the cleanup and recovery process was an extremely Grim task rescue workers many of whom were soldiers and volunteers had to navigate through the charred remains of the city and all of the horrors that it had to offer when soldiers sent by the war Ministry arrived at the city carrying stretches they couldn't understand why they had been sent because there was not a living thing in sight when they entered Ground Zero they found a statue like figure of a naked man standing with
22:43 his arms and legs spread apart the man had been turned into a brittle pillar of charcoal crumbling at the slightest touch he must have climbed out of a shelter shortly before the blast driven by the hot fumes only to be killed and carbonized instantly where he stood they encountered a young petite woman carrying the bloated corpse of a dead child on her back she seemed to be completely insane screaming incomprehensibly her shouts getting louder and louder over time they encountered another woman whose mind appeared to have been completely wiped clean she appeared to be uninjured except for a large slash across her belly the soldiers propped up against the wall where she spent the night in the morning they found her sitting in a pool of her own blood it seemed as if she'd spent the night carefully trying to push her own intestines back inside herself it was at this point that they noticed that she was pregnant a baby only halfway to term had emerged from
23:48 her belly along with her intestines and it hung lifelessly from her body when soldiers approached to try and help her she gave them a hideous smile before collapsing and dying the psychological toll on The Rescuers and the survivors was profound for years afterwards many struggled with the haunting memories of the dead and dying the Eerie Silence of the devastated cities and the incomprehensible sense of loss even now decades later these scars both physical and emotional remain [Music]
24:35 so I hope you found this video interesting I think this provides just a tiny snapshot of the kind of Horrors that people saw in the aftermath of the herish my bomb for every horror story you've heard today there were probably hundreds of thousands more that remain Untold thank you for watching this video and thank you very much to everyone who is supporting the channel it really does help me make more videos like this so thank you very much to all of you if you're in the mood for more videos like this I can recommend my Unit 731 video or my video about the horrors of the sa Commandos of outwits I'll put a link to those on screen now thank you once again for watching and until next time goodbye [Music]
