Videos
- A political speech: President Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima about 16 hours after the bombing:
- First hand accounts: Though this video is more current (21st century), first hand accounts were a way of distant witnessing as others were allowed to gain a more individualistic and detailed perspective:
- Live footage: Released in 1946 from the actual bombings, it gave an understanding of the magnitude and extent of damage, beyond simple facts and statistics:
- Interview: A 2010 interview with the last surviving Enola Gay crew member on the decision to drop the atomic bomb. His shocking claim? He’d drop the atomic bomb again if needed:
- Animation: Some choose to represent the disaster artistically, in forms that traditional media may consider too biased. Here’s an animation from the 21st century that took a novel interpretation:
These are just a few of the thousands of videos related to the disaster. A simple search of “hiroshima atomic bomb” will yield about 51,300 results!