It was a pivotal moment in the 20th century – the scientific, technological, military and political audacity of the first nuclear attack. This feature-length documentary tries to do something no other film has done before — show what it’s like to live in the midst of a nuclear explosion.
In the three weeks between the New Mexico test and the bomb’s fall, the action takes viewers into the room where important political decisions are being made;
For six months, the United States conducted intensive strategic incendiary bombing of 67 Japanese cities. The United States joined Great Britain and the Republic of China in calling for Japan’s surrender in the Potsdam Proclamation.
The Japanese government ignored the ultimatum. On the orders of President Harry S. Truman, the United States dropped the Little Boy nuclear weapon over the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of the “Fat Man” nuclear weapon over Nagasaki on August 9.
Those two incidents were the only ones in which nuclear weapons were actively used in war. Hiroshima was targeted for a city of considerable military importance that would house the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army, as well as a communications center and warehouses.
