I join the many reviewers who say this film is garbage. This film has driven me to attempt a review - so few of mine are published. One reviewer rejects the idea of the German atomic project helping the American one. He is right it didnt. Good review of the Nazi nuclear project by David Irving 1967 The Virus House. ( The later neo-Fascist).
I recommend this film as the data presented is good and some fresh. The way it is turned into information is not suspect, it is wrong. See above.
It is instructive for someone interested and with background knowledge to see how the data is distorted.
There are only two photographs of Hiroshima, immediately after. They identified and interviewed him. Then they failed to stress his photos were the only ones as the scientific plane 'failed'. This would have been a good entry for the lost neutron flux measurements. The neutron meter was lost for 50 y. It was later found in someone's garage and they assessed it as little better than a watering or jerry can. 'Lost' because they knew the data generated was useless.
Memories of what happened today are different to those memories of things that happened 50 y ago. This seemed very obvious when listening to the eye witnesses.
Contemporaries I agree, said " Dont go to Hiroshima, there's nothing there", unlike the ruins of Berlin or London. However, most of the concrete buildings survived upright, and so the massive spaces in between were burnt out wooden stock. These had been cleared by the time the Americans landed in Sep 1945. ( dumped in the river)
So the timing of the photographs are vital. There were a few of the 'lost photographs'. A Japanese photographer went out within minutes and photographed the chaos and then regretted photographing so many who were dead or would die. However they show the scene after the bomb and before the firestorm.
A secret monitoring committee has identified the special purpose of Enola Gay and its group - and gathered information and passed it on. Nothing happened. Enola Gay was identified in flight but not shot down, inexplicably. No, the explanation was that Japan had no air defence by that time.
The standard view is "All communication with Hiroshima ceased at 0815". This was due to the unknown Electro Magnetic Pulse. They decided to send someone to see, but it would take 3 days to get down there owing to American bombing. A secret committee knew the secret but told no one, is less credible
The account of the Cabinet meeting where the Emperor breaks the dead lock is completely wrong. Other things happend.
