2001 interview with Paul Tibbets, the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- The nationwide premiere of "Oppenheimer" debuts in theaters on Friday, telling the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his top-secret Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spent years developing and designing the atomic bomb.
In August 1942, the U.S. Army was given the responsibility of organizing the efforts of British and U.S. physicists to seek a way to harness nuclear energy for military purposes. That effort became known as the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer was instructed to establish and administer a laboratory to carry out this assignment. In 1943, he chose the plateau of Los Alamos near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Their work came to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witnessed the world's first nuclear explosion in New Mexico, forever changing the course of history.
But what central Ohioan’s may not know is that a man who lived in Columbus was the pilot of the plane that carried the bomb.
Paul Tibbets was 29-years old when he entered the cockpit to pilot the Enola Gay, named after his mother.
In 2001, he sat down for an interview with 10TV's Kevin Landers to talk about the events leading up to and after he dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Tibbets talked about how he was handpicked to fly the B-29.
“I had more experience with the B-29 than anybody. I said 'boy I’m glad they give it to me. I will do it.' And by doing so I may take some lives, but I’ll save many more. That’s the thought that ruled me all the way through,” he said.
On Aug. 5, 1945, at a cost of $2 billion, the military unveiled the atomic bomb. It weighed 9,700 pounds.
Before the crew took of their mission, Tibbets says they were given cynaide pills in case they were captured.
On Aug. 6, Tibbets and his crew take off.
“It was the most boring flight I ever made, because nothing went wrong,” he said.
Twelve hours and 15 minutes into the flight, the Enola Gay is over the city of Hiroshima.
Tibbets recalled the color of the sky after he banked away from the drop zone.
“The sky in front of me lit up like nothing you had ever seen. And then wham, we got hit by that shockwave,” he said.
Tibbets said he had 41 seconds to get the plane 10 miles away from the blast area out of fear they would be killed by the radiation cloud
“The first shockwave registered 2.5 g forces on the airplane, that was a good kick in the pants,” he said
Tibbetts wore welder goggles to protect himself from the brightness of the blast, but soon realized he couldn’t see the control panel in front of him so he took them off.
He recalled flying from the area and still was able to taste the radiation.
“I was in the turn when that happened; then I tasted it. I tell people it was like putting a piece of metal in your mouth like a sucker,” he said.
More than 20 tons of TNT would drop on Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people. Radiation sickness would kill thousands more. The temperature at the center of the bomb reached 120 million degrees.
“I’ve been asked directly, would you do it again? If you give me the same circumstances I would not hesitate and I’ve never lost a night’s sleep,” he said.
Tibbets died in November 2007 at the age of 92.
Memorabilia from Tibbets' career is on display not at Motts Military Museum in Groveport.
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Oppenheimer: what have I created
The pilot: I’d fucking do it again
HAHAHAHAH
@@embla2357 its not that funny chill
@@EmbodiementOfPerfection shut up you weeb
@@EmbodiementOfPerfectionyou’re right, it’s not funny.
It’s hilarious🤡😂🤣
Bro called it boring, for he is clearly a man of no regret
@@nonamex6536can you post the link to the audio recording? I can’t find it. Thank you in advance!
@@JJetpack www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr61-37-radio-report-american-people-potsdam-conference
I haven't found what I referenced yet but at 22:30 in this different recording he says that the nuke was dropped on Hiroshima a military base, That was because if possible in the first attack we wished to avoid the killing of civilians. This recording is three days after the first one was used. Aug 9th, 1945.
Looks like its not as easy as I remembered to find originally lol.
If you grew up in these times, you would be too , especially if you seen what this man has
@@JJetpack I posted a link to some of what I found and came back for reference. it is alot harder to find then I thought and I am not sure why the little i did post got removed. It was a direct link to part of one of Harry s Truman's speeches in the public gov archive. I just looked close to the dates for that.
He's a criminal for the criminal united states government
Pilot dude doesn't even have a bit of regret Oppenheimer had
@Patrick_TremblayKilling thousands of innocent people..
What a heroism.
@Patrick_Tremblay so what is war crimes and war criminals?? Why are they even criminals?? They were just doing their boring job like raping women, killing Children and innocents without caring about morality as they left it for their superior?? So it turns out there are no war criminals, they were just doing their boring job..
It always bothers me that what is a good soldier??
Who kills all of his family members as per seniors order or who doesnt as its not fot to his morality.
If there is something like hell after death this guy should be burned there for eternity.
@@valdomero738 If you think so, then americans also deserve some nuke slap for their atrocities in Vietnam..You can't punish person A for the crime of person B just because they live in the same country..
@@paterofmater1690He was a soldier who could be killed by Japanese at any time after he toke that flight.
And now you telling me about innocent?what about all the innocent people died because of the war which Japanese started?
So you think its a fairy tale world without slaughter?War is a matter of death.Either you die or I die.
Talk this to normal civilians who has been killed by Japanese soldiers.They weremuch more innocent than Japanese civilians because they had no choice but to fight.😅
@@paterofmater1690Would you rather millions of innocents die in a Japanese home invasion instead?
“And I’ve never lost a nights sleep”
Damn. That’s cold lol
That's something you'll never understand not having been in a war yourself. Sidelines jerk!
Absolute Chad
@@shobhitkabra13absolute moron but it was war.
Soldiers are often psychopathic tbh
is he george bush' s relative or what?
The fact that he could immediately taste the metal in his mouth while flying away from the blast site in an airplane is incredible to me.
Radiation is just a bunch of high energy photons. They travel at the speed of l ight, and need only about 50 microsecons to cross 10 miles. When they hit taste buds on the human tongue, they produce a chemical reaction which can create a taste of metal.
LOL! Propaganda. He couldn't have outrun the blast. MUCH LESS the emp that would have shut the plane down. We carpet bombed those cities into nothing then dropped a normal bomb. Dude on Rogan just showed nuke test footage is fake.
@@edvingrabar5229 also high speed neutrons and relativistic electrons.
@@beenschmokin
@@ct92404Not only flat Earth, this guy is crazy 😂
No wonder he was given the task.
realest comment
+10 Aggressive / -10 Empathic
He is probably the kkk head master
1:04 “It was the most boring flight I ever made, because nothing went wrong” 💀
@fixwaya5652and scum for every normal human being.
This guy single handily killed more Japanese then anything or anyone in history this guy is the ultimate Japanese villain lmao. He killed more then any tsunami or freak disaster 😵💫
@huntertucker7806 Lol 800 000? Japan lost the war already when the 2 atomic bomb were dropped. There were no need to attacked the civilians like that
@@josephbegniol2051before the atomic bombs genius
@@josephbegniol2051it’s war. Not a fan fiction. Japan bought it on themselves. They did to the Chinese and Koreans what Hitler did to Jews.
There's something disturbing in how he grew into old age without an ounce of regret for doing that.
He's just saying that for the cameras and to retain his "hero" title but I am sure there are nights he had nightmares for the thousands of innocent civilians and children he killed.
For every life the bomb took, at least 10 were saved, so, in the grand scheme of things, it was the lesser evil
There is nothing disturbing about that, what, the choices are : live your life until you are in your 80s with regret and unhappiness, or justify the drop based on the numbers saved. He did what every sane sensible person should do and justified the drop.
@@afrocentric1674 but is he really the one who killed them?
@@adewit03This is literally how the entire world thinks. All of the Allies (including the Soviet Union) supported using the atom bomb after Truman told them about it. War has always been collateral damage, the atom bomb didn'r change that.
*"It was the most boring flight that I made because nothing went wrong"*
70,000 Japanese would disagree
@@truthseeker-nv6ny He meant nothing went wrong with the plane and its cargo onboard while on the way to Hiroshima.
@@umdisc64 I know he didn't take into the lives of 70,000 Japanese he ended
@@truthseeker-nv6ny It had been six years of WW2. Even though the US had bombed the heck out of Japan before and they knew the war was lost the Japanese weren’t surrendering.
@umdisc64 that's a myth. There were already talks of surrender going on with Japan infact even eisenhower the commander of the allied forces thought that using atomic bomb on Japan was unnecessary
"They were given cyanide pills incase they were captured "💀
Bro was more than ready to drop the bomb 😱
Friggen absolute respect ❤
1:04 😂
It's war. Not Pokemon.
@@271Saif
It's definitely not terrorism by Islamists
His name is Tibbetts not “ Bro.”
Oppenheimer: Scientist
Tibbets: Soldier
Pilot*
@@ziphy_6471 warplane pilot=soldier???
@@jedisofus He is specifically a pilot since he is directly talking about him, so his occupation must be said more specifically
@@ziphy_6471 Pilot in airforce=branch of defense forces=soldier by definition.
@@jedisofus Depends on what your definition of a soldier is
Imagine if his daughter asked "what did you do at work today daddy?"
Он с улыбкой на лице " Убил более ста тысяч мирных жителей, за пару минут"
@@rondondon7088que horror
Aaah, nothing special…
Doing as he was told, nothing more.
"Oh honey nothing much , just did a little something that will appear in History books"
Major error in the narration: It wasn't an equivalent "22 tons of TNT". The estimated yield was as high as 20 kilotons, or 20,000 tons of TNT. BIG difference,
Good point.
Actually it was 12 kilotons on Hiroshima
and 22 kilotons on Nagasaki.
@@Bobby-fj8mk Hiroshima was 15 kilotons not 22 tons...and Nagasaki was 21 kilotons
@@ajcook7777 - some sites say 12 kilotons for Hiroshima and others say 15 kilotons.
Or 20 million kg
“if you give me the same circumstances i would not hesitate” 😭💀💀
this guy is actually a zombie
@@UmarBasil imagine being in the same circumstances and saying no to that mission? in his mind he saved his country. many people in the world would do the same thing for their countries. that's how the whole education system works.
He’s a Chad
I'd do to. Attack America & think you're getting an apology....lol. 🖕
@@robertwright4906 Man is Legend.
This man is the biggest player in the lobby with 150,000 kills 🎮
200k die in japan, not 150k
And 90% or more civilian
is he a hero now? or what?
Do you grasp the concept of jokes in poor taste?
@@mar0k100% saved the american people
It ended the war. Both Germany and Japan would have used it without a second thought.
War was already ended. But American propaganda rules over all
120 million degree celcius...OMFG
Is that alot? 🤔 just kiddin
You're gonna feel that tomorrow, for sure.
🥴😭
An Oppenheimer tan
And we can barely handle 50c°, Jesus Christ.
I didn't know Paul Tibbets was still alive in 20001. I was in high school and my grandfather served in the second world War as a medic. We used to talk about history and wwii all the time back then
bro has 17978 more years 💀
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You probably need to go back to high school
@@Caakers☠️
Bros been to the year 3000
when you refer to 200.000 civilians by "some lives" .. amazing.
How many Chinese did Imperial Japan murder? A million or more?
@@RideAcrossTheRiver People are ignorant. They sit in their heated and A/C home in perfect security and have no idea of what the world was like in 1945. They don't think about or don't even know the atrocities the Japanese people did, leading up to and during WWII. In my book, Paul Tibbets and the millions of Americans fighting in WWII are heroes. To be honest, calling them heroes really understates what they did.
Exactly - and terrifying.
@@rcairflr Yeah well, the Russians killed 20 million people and Americans worked together with them. Why not bomb them?
Realize how flawed your logic is?
@@Berniewahlbrinck Veterans are disgusted by the trendy apologism of today for Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Looks like we're gonna have to fight it all over again.
We discussed Hiroshima in 8th grade, one of my classmates father was on a troopship designated for the invasion, they were expecting 90% casualties. It was a real eye opener to realize, had they not dropped the bomb she would not have been there.
The bomb didn’t make the Japanese capitulate, the soviets entering the war did. The Japanese were hoping to have the ussr be a mediator between them and the Americans but when they invaded Manchuria it suddenly became a lot more attractive to surrender to the Americans because the soviets would’ve killed the emperor and set up a communist state. The bomb was really about scaring the Russians so they wouldn’t invade europe to spread communism. If fdr hadve lived another year or Henry Wallace been on the ticket instead of Truman, I doubt the bomb would’ve been dropped because relations with the soviets would’ve been a lot better
There is a Japanese dance troupe on America's got talent. Most of them wouldn't exist without the bomb either.
...and if the bomb wasn't dropped, tens of thousands of children that the victims would have had would be here now. What's your point? Your classmate would also be there if the US wasn't pushing for the grandiose and unnecessary decision to invade and the bomb was never dropped. Hundreds of thousands of lives saved.
A full scale invasion of Japan would have killed more people. Absolutely.
Wait so the bomb mad them survive? I don't understand I thought just about nobody survived. U said without the bomb they wouldn't be here??
My grandfather was on the Nagasaki mission. The only time I ever heard him speak ill of the dead was when Hirohito passed.
Now imagine how our military would handle this today after the RuPaul stripper show and pillow fight because you used the wrong pronouns.
@@vitocorleone8323 your military has twice in 2 generations got its@$$ handed to it by poverty stricken countries whose farmers decided they didn't like scum.
your only claim to fame is having a lame grandfather in an ironically named plane
Hirohito was a puppet though
@bananarchy5430 no he wasn't, he was head of a country that committed mass murder across southeast Asia and China. In this case Hitler would be innocent too right? He wasn't dropping the gas in the gas chambers or at the mass executions of POWs in Russia, Poland etc etc.
I loved that he had the crew chief rig a switch so that HE dropped the bomb, not the bombardier. Took the responsibility on himself
gee first I have heard of this, and I met Tibbetts twice
Truman took all the credit. It wasnt Oppenheimer. Those darn germans surrendered too soon so they had to use both types of nuclear bombs before the japanese had a chance to appropriately surrender.
I call BS. Prove it.
Incorrect. It was triggered by the bombardier Thomas Ferebee
@@josephf7720 Sad, isn’t it? “Idiocracy” has become a documentary. Facts are nuisances now. I blame the schools and their parents.
An old guy who helped revamp the fuselage of the enola gay to accommodate the bomb told us that he had no regrets at all. He firmly believed it saved many lives & stopped the war. He died of als possibly got contaminated.
The USA almost had a nuclear missile shot at it during the Cuba missile crisis .... a Russian commander was given the order to fire , but he disobeyed orders
Surely it was ‘revamped’ before the incident? 🤔
@@Chafflives he helped rebuild the inside of the plane so the bomb would fit inside the bomb bay.
@@ArnoldZiffle-jw2mv I understand that, but you stated that he may have been contaminated with ALS. ‘French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot discovered ALS in 1869. While ALS can affect anyone, anywhere, at any time, there are two different ways cases are categorized.
For about 90% of all cases, there’s no known family history of the disease or presence of a genetic mutation linked to ALS.’ Are you saying that he worked on it again upon its return? If so, there doesn’t appear to be a link between ALS and residual radiation.
@@Chafflives information is still unavailable, his crew might have handled the actual bomb to put it in place
He dint just saved the American lives but a bunch of nation that is under Japanese Occupation.. I come from Malaysia.. Japanese were extremly cruel that people at that time rather lives thousand year of English Occupation than one day in Japanese Occupation
No you wouldn't, Emperor Hirohito was a Field Marshall & General in the British Army during WWII btw....
@@Alkymick1 no the fuck he wasnt he was the Emperor of Japan 😭😭😭😭
@@OmskHmmmmmmmrahhh '...Hirohito Shinno, Crown Prince of Japan, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., to be Honorary General. Dated '9th May 1921.' - London Gazette. &;
'Foreign military appointments United Kingdom: Honorary General in the British Army, May 1921[161][162]
United Kingdom: Field Marshal of the Regular Army in the British Army, June 1930[163].... United Kingdom: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO), May 1921
United Kingdom: Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (civil division) (GCB), May 1921[178]
United Kingdom: Stranger Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG), 3 May 1929; revoked, 1941; restored, 22 May 1971[179]' - Wikipedia entry for Emperor Hirohito.
The footnotes are from that London Gazette article I referenced.
After the war a lot of people had ptsd, committed suicides, did not recognise themselves, etc...
This man would do it again and did not lose a night's sleep. WTF!!!
He didn’t see those things up close and first hand, that’s the difference
All he had to do was fly over the city and drop the bomb, meanwhile all of those soldiers who had to live through that hell saw first hand the horrors of war, their friends being killed in front of them and all kinds of shit
@@lonewolf9578 If I saw the videos of the children I had maimed and parents whom I'd vaporized, I'd be horrified on the atrocity I'd just committed whether at the time I saw it up close or not. He's obviously seen these videos, and doesn't have a shred of remorse.
Yea so he can give you the comfort of you being able to type a comment here!
@@callumg_0147LtCol Tibbitz doesn't need to have a shred of remorse.
Obviously, you have no historical context or knowledge of WWII. You have no idea how barbaric and savage and racist was the Japanese military.
The only people to blame for these atomic bombs being dropped on the Japanese mainland were the Japanese military cabinet and Emperor Hirohito himself.
Their pride, arrogance, and narcissism were the true reasons these bombs had to be dropped.
The leadership would just not surrender.
Actions have consequences.
The decisions and actions of the Japanese leadership brought this destruction upon themselves.
Blame the Emperor. He could have surrendered well before that.
@@gasoven3759 I have A LOT of knowledge about WW2, maybe even more than you considering that's what I chose to study. And to say I have no idea how racist and barbaric they were when I've studied the events that happened at Nanjing and that in itself proves how barbaric they were is very arrogant. I don't care who was to blame for dropping the bomb, maybe it was the best thing they could have done in that situation, I don't know. (I feel like a different approach could have worked however) But to go onto an interview and say you have zero remorse for vaporizing and maiming innocent men, women and children and not lose a nights sleep over it just seems a bit psychotic to me. If I did that to my worst enemy I'd still have a shred of remorse for what I'd done to the innocent people who had no choice in being collateral damage...
The Little Boy explosion was actually incomplete. Experts have theorized only about 1% of the Uranium actually detonated - the remainder was "just" a dirty bomb. Likely because it was the "gun" design. FatMan on the other hand was Pu, and an implosion type. Even with so much less material, was much more efficient.
There is no nuclear weapon that converts all of it's fissile mass/fuel into energy. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 0.7 grams of matter into energy. Tsar bomba released an amount of energy equivalent to the conversion of 2.3 kilograms of matter into energy.
Knowing just how much power came from so little material that had actually reacted that was inside such an inefficient bomb is terrifying.....
Terrifying that you can only imagine how powerful atomic weaponry is today. I fully believe we have created bombs that could end all life on this planet.... No question.
@@BritishEchoYes one nuke war and we are done. Most of the part of Earth would turn into an ice age.
I can't stop asking what good man makes by killing. It's known to all that life on earth is short. And what good are possessions when the owner is dead. Many want more than what they need but can't find confort and peace in their lives.
@@eduardos.tenorlasclu1070it is because that you cherish life that you must protect it, and hence why you may kill.
I can understand the argument saving more lives with this method, but this was simply too cold, showing no sympathy whatsoever. The comments are disappointing as well.
Agreed
so they should have sent 100's of thousands of American and allied soldiers to their deaths?
Wow. The fact he’d do it again speaks volumes and is indeed scary as hell
Japan was evil so nah
The fact he said he'd do it again is not terrifying, he is ordered to do it and he knows he is doing it for a cause(to prevent the war from prolonging and end it on the spot, saving millions that would have lost had instead they kept fighting). You need to know that without the nukes mainland invasion is absolute and the death toll will go over the roof. No "wow" here and you shouldn't feel any wow either. It's war, it's fucked up and sometimes really brutal things happen and there has to be someone to carry out the dirty work so the rest stay clean. Figuratively and literally.
Saved the world
@@Mr.Witness Putin also saves the world from the west influence
Bluergh 🤮
The men in service definitely knew the outcome of dropping the bomb and I’m sure they were glad it would all be over
PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY, JAPAN COMMITED BRUTAL WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING WW2 JUST A LITTLE EXAMPLE IS UNIT 731.
Agreed with you, japan committed many war crimes
so you drop a bomb on civilians?
@@RA-ce8ks If the allied powers invaded Japan millions of people would’ve died. If the United States main goal was to kill as much with the bomb as they could they wouldn’t have dropped pamphlets warning civilians to evacuate.
@@RA-ce8ksThere's a little option to have if you're fighting an enemy that has no plans to give up and would cause even more harm than the option you chosen, if not stopped
@@d0nnzaa244shoudlnt nuke civilians. Instead aim for idk, military bases, whatever happens. They were at war, not Hiroshima people
The narrator incorrectly said 22 tons of tnt was dropped.
It was actually “equivalent” to about 20 tons of tnt, but it most definitely was not tnt.
actually, a mistake on his part, it was 22 kilotons, which is 22,000 tons. Sounds like a lot, but "puny" compared to today's nuclear weapons which are about 1 million tons equivalent on average. Sleep well everyone!! LOL
Just that American thing you know like " the Pentagon building is as big as 20 football fields. Same way they compare 22k TNT explosion to these new atomic bomb explosion.
Equivalent to 22 thousand tons
22kilotons
22,000 tons or a pile of tnt as big as 80 feet wide by 100 feet long and 50 feet tall .
@@gregorydahl a lot for a "small bomb" by today's standards!!
@@Karanveer782w yup, but does that include the 2 end zones for each or just the playing fields, which adds some more for the Pentagon's size!! LOL ;D
If that day never happened, can't imagine how much longer the war would've lasted and how many more lives would've lost.
What if u had loved ones or u ur self were in Hiroshima
i don't really understand some of these comments, HE didn't make the decision, he followed orders with the fact that this would of save maybe half a million American and japanese soldiers. No one in the army understood the inhumanity because this was just another bomb to them. Oppenheimer regrets his role because he created it and knew the effect it would have. This pilot was just a pawn in the game and likely has shut off emotionally when thinking about this, maybe due to loosing friends in pearl harbour, maybe his father didn't love him, who knows. It's not all black and white
shutup
@@KymCheney good argument, it's the effort that counts
What's missing here is that Hirohito and Tojo REFUSED to surrender, not only after Hirshoma, but after the firebombs by well over 200 B-29's that killed over 100,000 civilians just a couple months before.
It was actually over 1 million civilians who died from the fire bombings that were clearly war crimes, just like the 2 a-bombs were. And Japan was ready to surrender. Try getting your facts from someplace other than comic books and Faux News.
They would of dragged that war out another 5-10 years.
I heard that they actually did try to surrender and wanted to override someone being stubborn, but tragically it was too late and they didn't get there in time.
Completely wrong. Emperor Hirohito wanted to end the war when he assigned prime minister Suzuki in April 1945.
A bomb is clearly a war crime as cruel as Japanese aggressions. It’s such a shame that lots of Americans are still appreciating this war crime. Essentially there’s no difference from what Putin is doing in Ukraine. It’s even worse.
@@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance Too late? Was Japan suddenly going someplace? Truman decided to drop the bomb when he did because he knew that the Soviet Union was massing troops to invade Japan.
This is the reason there hasn't been a WWIII. The threat of nulcear war and mutually assured destruction has kept modern wars from escalating and has probably kept many conflicts from ever starting.
Please let us not count our chickens before they hatch.
There are plenty of wars going on right now mate.
@@Hxtice I didn't say there weren't, mate.
this man proves that dumbness is not displaced by wisdom at an old age.
"Never lost a night's sleep" Thats far beyond normal
The Japanese had it coming for the atrocities they committed, or have you never heard of what they did in Nanking for example?
@@mohamedaf4044bro there were innocent civilians there, women, children and elderly people
@@DotyFuzzThere were those too in nanking but it's not like the Japanese ever gave a damn, not even now they want to apologize for their extreme cruelty. I'd say the bomb did more good than it did bad, for it made the japanese realize that they had lost the war and there was no point in trying to defend from a mainland invasion which would have cost far, far more lives.
@@InfiniteMonkeyTheorem yeah I know, the bomb was crucial in ending the war, I'm just saying that most of the residents of the bombed cities had nothing to do with Japan's war crimes, some were maybe even against the war, to think that so many innocent lives were lost in the blink of an eye, like have at least some sympathy for them. It's not a topic that you would talk about like lightly
@@InfiniteMonkeyTheoremu dumb
Who is here after Oppenheimer?
me
Have not seen it but it is a remake of an older movie in the 80's I think, also a good movie called "Fat Man and Little Boy" (they were the nick names of the two A- bombs) starring Paul Newman, was it? Can't remember. But good and "historically accurate".
Not me
@@ronschlorff7089 It’s not a remake, it’s based off of a 2006 Pulitzer Prize, winning biography, called American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan said he has always been interested in the guy & then when he read the book, he knew he had to make the movie.
@@vickiego1 Yes, but there was a "made for tv" movie, back when they did those things, a multipart series, on Oppenheimer and the "Manhattan project", starring Sam Waterston I think. It seemed to focus on the "academic challenge" more than the military use of the project, by all the scientists. And also, the later regrets of "Oppy", as he was known by his colleagues at U.C. Berkeley and the University of Chicago, whose "great U.S. academic intuitions" were the main developers of the bomb! And they were all "theoretical physicists", and not "warriors"! So, many were quite appalled by the results of what their work had loosed upon the world!!
Might even have been on PBS. An old movie may not even be available anymore, after 3 or 4 decades, about 40 years after the bombing of Japan.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 caused immeasurable suffering and devastation, affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. These tragic events should make us always think about the consequences of our decisions and strive for peaceful solutions to international conflicts.
Our world faces numerous challenges, from environmental problems to social injustices and economic crises. It is up to us humans to act together and create a world of compassion, understanding and peace.
I hope history teaches us that we must strive to ensure such catastrophic events never happen again. Our responsibility is to leave a more just and peaceful world to future generations.
Crybaby
You could say that nuclear power plant in Russia too
Japan raping China was one of many key reasons we made fried rice.
Millions more would have died if the war continued its crazy that something like this had to open everyone’s eyes
Japan Learned their lesson.
My dude single handedly killed 250,000 people (70,000 instantly and the rest over the weeks, months and years to follow) and said "it was the most boring flight ever." Not even Hitler himself could fathom a death count such as that happening within a span of mere nanoseconds. Wild.
Radiations still reached him in the plane. Imagine the person on whom this Bomb would have been dropped around, he would not even realise that he is dead.
Probably better that way. Gone in a micro second.
More like recent Titanic submarine incident
They watched the measuring instruments drift down on a Parachute above the falling bomb they could not see, gawking at the sky that a Lone B29 had just flown across, in 1945 that was surreal enough I am sure, (did we miss the Surrender?) then the Sun touched down.
My grandma had worked at the pentagon back in about 1999 or somewhere around that time but recently she gave me a book about Paul Tibbets and it had his signature and another pilot that I forgot the name of but they came over to the pentagon before they died gave out signatures.
How in the hell are you proud of holding that lmao
@@betrayed4288 I have no idea
@@betrayed4288 because he helped saved millions of lives. Would you kill 200 thousand to save millions or save 200 thousand and kill millions? The answer is clear.
@@betrayed4288 why wouldnt he be?
@@LEYTHLEGACY you guys are sick
This dude is a hero. The greatest generation CONFIRMED
We need more heroes like him in every country, especially in WW111, who will not regret killing millions of civilians.
@@mein3324 damn world war 111 what year will that happen 4089? 😂
@@mein3324autistic
The difference of reaction from Tibbets and Oppenheimer is telling...
Because all he did was help create the bomb. He didn't have combat experience on any level. He was a sheltered kosher man that never had to do the heavy lifting of a nation.
@@timesup6302 Exactly right ... spot on ... well said!! 👍👍
@@timesup6302you drop this 👑
Innocent japanese?
What about those chinese civilians and civilians from other countries and all those soldiers who fought with Japanese?They could have a life without any war，some of them even lost their lives because of the war.
So they deserve the war which they didn't start?They deserve all the suffering,all the pain and all the death that Japanese brought?
These people are much more innocent than Japanese,one thing for sure is that more innocent people would been killed if japan refused to surrender.
innocent? Why didn't you talk to them?My grandfather was almost killed by Japanese soldiers and the ancient city bulit hundreds of years ago in the Ming dynasty in my hometown was bombarded by Japanese soldiers.
Talking about innocence to them.
Citizens and government are two different things big man.
@@Gaminglife-sf1ozYou misunderstand the point: i am not saying that every Japanese citizens is not innocent.some of them like children were innocent for sure.
The point is innocence isn't important.yeah,some Japanese were innocent, its just more and more people would died if Japanese refused to surround.1 Japanese vs 2 soldiers.I don't think its a hard decision to make.
I just don't like they way they talk.it seems that Japanese citizens become the only innocent victim and the others were merely random passing by strangers which were ignored. But the fact is that only in nanking there are 300 thousands people have been killed by the Japanese soldiers.
And that,is also the fact.Not to mention those soldiers who fought with Japanese soldiers.
@@Gaminglife-sf1oz One more thing to say:Yeah,they are innocent citizens,but then,who were not?
@@Gaminglife-sf1oz And your asinine point is?? ... 'big man'
@@kelleychilton2524 what am saying is children, women and ordinary citizens should not have to pay or die horribly for their own terrible politicans or governments. Am sure you wouldn't want innocent american citizens to suffer because of the actions of their politicians in foreign countries.
Monster is not myth. Look at this man!!
Monsters is not a myth
Look at unit 731
@@FrangkyMindor nanking
He comes off as a very satisfied man.
2:02 says " 22 tons of tnt struck"
But it was more like the equivalent power of 22 THOUSAND TONS of tnt in the form of an atomic fission reaction release of free energy .
It wasn't the equivalent of 22 tons of TNT, but 22 THOUSAND!
Aka 22 kilotons
22000 x 1000 = 22000000 kilo grams of tnt , that IS 22 million kilograms of TNT
I was searching for exactly this pilot...💯
Im a filippino, Thank you sir for your service.
Wtf?
Did you know japan envide philippines during the 1940’s. US stop the killing and drop the bomb in 1945 japan surender.
Filipinos are gay during the war
@@Nowchjdjswhat is so confusing? The US liberated the Philippines from Japan in WW2
@@imadedistocomment5936 so what? That still does not justify the hiroshima and nagasaki blast, no sh!t can justify that atrocious act !!!
War is horrific. Only the innocent suffer.
Depends on your viewpoint.
@@smusky4643Tell me ONE SINGLE POWERUL LEADER that suffered himself during the 2 World Wars.
Captured family members don't count since the political and economical leaders were Cluster B disordered men that never cared for their relatives to begin with.
As an example Stalin let his OWN son die in a German torture facility.
@@smusky4643edgy
@@Andy-hh7nc wiggle wiggle wiggle
Look at him living a life like an innocent person…..
wailing in agony where he is now
The japanese also killed more than the atomic bomb the whole war and you ignored that. Hyp0crite🤡🤡🤡
Just like unit 731
In December 1972, I completed Lear Jet training at Columbus Ohio flight school. My graduation certificate is signed by Col. Paul Tibbets.
That's nothing to be pround of! signed by a psychopath
@@Political-Satireeven if he was psychotic it doesn’t deter his major achievement in world history ! So that’s a flex having your certification signed by mister tibbets
🎉
@@ItsRlyAntonio Ah, taking innocent lives is a major achievement to you.. Sounds like you're just as bad of a mental case.
@@nasalies1292It was her own opinion.
Tasting the bomb: I never heard this before now.
Dude killed 150k people
What about the nanjing massacre? The 14 million chinese people they killed the whole war?, even in asia you ignored it because you like anime 🤡🤡🤡
The lack of remorse from him, by far one of the most disturbing short interview.
Why should he have remorse?
@@luke1495 because that's how any normal human being ought to be.
@@luke1495 maybe several thousand murdered and mutilated children
@@luke1495i feel like any decent human being would have remorse after dropping a bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, even if it was for "the greater good" you still killed like 100,000 men women and children...
@@2060-y9nI think he has the tough and responsible soldier mentality, he joined the military, accepted that the President as his Supreme comannder, was tasked with the President's order, he did it.
Seems crazy today that the U.S. and Japan ever had beef with each other at all. I'm glad that was way before I was born.
FDR can be thanked for that. He introduced sanctions against Japan for their invasion of Manchuria and China. This essentially forced the Japanese hand. They either had to withdraw from mainland Asia (and lose face) or else they had to attack the USA. FDR knew that this would be the result and was already building up the American military in preparation for a war against Japan.
Im pretty sure that the US helped Japan out quite a bit after the war. Japan is what it is today thanks to the Japanese mentality and it part thanks to how the US helped them reconstruct their government post empire
20,000 Japanese civilians killed themselves and even their children on Okinawa rather than face the “disgrace” of surrender (some families even tossed their children off cliffs). Imagine the death toll for civilians if the Allies had to invade the Japanese home islands. By that time, the Japanese were training even children on the home islands to fight with nothing more than sticks of Japan itself were invaded. 100,000 people is a ghastly number but it’s not as bad as millions (if the low estimates of an invasion were calculated at roughly 5-10 million civilian deaths).
1 radio broadcast from the emperor and all of that is avoided. They were done the moment the russians opened the second front. It's the US history that teaches these excuses to push the agenda that the bombs were morally right, when in fact they were unnecessary.
They did this on Saipan also.
The argument that the allies "would have had to invade" an already critically weakened Japan was the Cool-Aid served up at the time to justify the mass murder of a civilian population. Would you like some?
@@jwalkinit the idea that the allies would not have had to invade Japan is the kool aid that left wing revisionist historians have fed the world to make people feel justified in their hatred of the west. Regardless, even if dropping the bombs were unnecessary who cares - it doesn’t even come close to the atrocities are horrors the Japanese inflicted on innocent civilians all over Asia, but especially China.
If it wasn’t him it’d be someone else. Guy’s pretty cold though.
He has to be, second thoughts are dangerous.
Spoken like someone who has never seen combat. In war, you have to be 'cold.'
disgusting act of humanity participating in war.@@kelleychilton2524
True but it's terrible, i'm sure all of his life he thought about that......
@@kelleychilton2524 how awful
Worse than Bin Laden.
Nah not really
Explain your reasoning
Wtf??
Traitor
They bombed pearl harbour
People forget how brutal the japanese were
Exactly
Why are whites in japan anyway
So what
Are u justifying killing innocent people?
@@30musabboouf61Goodness without teeth, is another form of evil.
@@30musabboouf61If not for the bomb there would have been a land invasion that would kill millions it was a necessary evil.
I am shocked to hear the former pilot who dropped the bomb saying "I would do it again". Also he has not lost a nights sleep ! He doesn't seem to have any feelings.
What would regrets should he have? It was the end of the worst war the world ever saw. This brought peace. Decades later the U.S. and Japan are proud allies, ready to fight for eachother at a moment's notice. it's a a real shame you can't just sit down and say thank you
@@sergeant_salty the second world war ended because of numerous things .the atom bomb was the final thing.if there had been no atom bomb the war would have eventually ended anyway.so why thank the pilot?
The war was over in May when the red army got into Berlin. That bomb was not necessary!
That was an act of cowardly! US is the only country that has use this bomb. They have no forgiveness.
@@Dorjilama-b2s They calculated that MILLIONS would have died to end the war without the bomb. The Japanese WOULD NOT QUIT. THAT'S why they dropped it.
Learn history.
@@Dorjilama-b2s Your are incorrect...best to learn a bit more instead of just being emotional.
Sargeant is right.
Idk how someone can kill so many people and not feel bad about it in the future.
Nazis Germany And America are the same bird
and not only that some of the women were under 18.
So is japan.
The Japanese killed their own people and children also. Do you realize 14 boys were sneaking into the military to fight for their country.
Tell that to tojo
My grandparents and their siblings and cousins, who were guerrilla fighters during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, are grateful for the atomic bombings. To them, it was an eye for an eye.
Not sure how killing Japanese civilians, who had nothing to do with the Filipino genocide, makes up for anything. It's just more innocent lives lost.
Yeah. Killing CIVILIANS was an Eye to Eye. American logic.
Well your grandparedt will suffer forever in hell
@@noelleirina5628compared to the millions that would have died had the US invaded lol?
Get off your high horse
I feel bad for the innocent civilians that were vaporized in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but I also think about the innocent people that were tortured and raped by the Japanese soldiers, nobody deserved the bomb or being tortured, damn humans are truly evil
no one ever talks about the Japanese being dug into the mountains, and danger to the allied soldiers
Schofield barracks. Hickam field. The Arizona. Guadalcanal. Iwo Jima. Kwajalein. Wake Island. Manila. The Bataan march. The last message from Corregidor. You're damn right he slept well and would do it again.
And then Godzilla was born.
Godzillwer
Hahaha!
Crazy there’s one guy down there who survived made it to Nagasaki and got bombed again
he had seen the war, he knew about the war much more than oppenheimer
Excellent point. Tibbetts and his kind were the ones doing the fighting and the dying, they didn't have the luxury of hand wringing and guilt-trips like Oppenheimer.
lol. people arguing that the bomb wasnt justifiable is lauphable. most of the civilians in japan supported the japanese imperial army and japan was out of control conquering and pillagin multiple countries and killing thousands of people in pearl harbour and thousands more during the war.
if the americans were doing that in the 40s then yeah, but they werent. the japanese were and they paid the price.@@goblinky
60 plus japanese cities were 70 to 90 percent destroyed by fire bombing before the usa droped the bomb. more people died in tokyo in 1 night by a conventional raid than either atomic bombs a number of japanese cities were left untouched by fire bombing as to see the effect of the atomic bomb.The japanese were trying to get out of the war earlier but the usa said you cant keep the emporer but in the end the usa had to let the japanese keep the emporer if they did not the japanese would never haver surrended.The atomic bomb was not needed to win the war againts japanThe droping of the atomic bombs on japan was a experiment by the usa
the atomic bomb was necessary even the japanese wrote about it at the time.@@robertfoster7807
No way, the civilians of a historically well-isolated country that made great strides modernizing and with a huge nationalistic pride supporting it's war efforts? Man you're a genius, we would've never pieced that together.
@@tomoesan4547 civilians who believed in racial superiority and built their modern country by conquering and commiting mass atrocities.
this guy went straight to hell
Thats for sure
? Definitely not
Nah
Study history
Why don’t you go back and try another time to open your brand new history textbook bro😭
I like the fact he didn’t feel bad about killing innocent people who had nothing to do with ww2
God and his son knows that bro.
They already made paul tibbets satans wife
It is more complicated than that. He is convinced by killing those people, he saved many more. (because the Japaneses surrendered after that) But the thing is, we will never know what would have happened if the bomb wasn't launched. Would it have indeed saved many other people or would it have done nothing at all in particular?
He did “feel bad” in a sense, but the ends justified the means. I’ve read another one of his interviews and he talks about what he saw as _ending_ the killing, and how they all “had feelings” but just had to ignore them. He was right too: The bombings did, in fact, end the war. Now days it seems evil but we also haven’t seen war even close to the scale of WWII. People’s frame of reference these days is Iraq, Ukraine, the Balkans; so of course dropping an atomic bomb will seem unwarranted. But with WWII threatening the very existence of nations all around the world with like 75 million people dead they had a different perspective on what was justifiable to end the war.
@@Accuratetranslationservices thats easy for him too say he nuked people who didn't had anything to do with the war.
If he was a real good guy he nuked to guy who was responsible for the war in the first place.
Killings innocents to stop the war doesn't make you a national hero its makes your look like a terrorist
@@playerunkown8699calm down keyboard warrior, neither you or anyone including me can understand what these men went through while fighting the worst war in history of humanity.
Imagine a war multiple times worse than in ukraine and gaza.
Ask yourself would you kill 150k people to save millions? It's called necessary evil in my opinion.
Nevertheless It was a sad day for humanity.
Of course he’d do it again .
He’s a trained dog.
Hence the dog tags.
A good dog doesn’t ask questions.
A good dog takes orders.
No matter who’s pulling the strings.
Stupid comment. SMH
I wonder if this guy is burning in hell or not
그의 행동은 옳은 행동입니다
IT WAS A HORRIBLE DAY WHEN THIS MOST CRUEL BOMB WAS DROPPED BY PAUL TIBBETS.
NOW MANY OTHER COUNTRIES ARE HAVING THESE BOMBS. SO, WE SHOULD BE VERY VERY
CAREFUL TO AVOID SUCH SITUATIONS IN THE WORLD. SAVE THE WORLD BE PEACEFUL.😮😢
He is a hero who saved millions. People are really too soft in today's society. Heroes are rare to find as opposed to those in Tibbett's day.
I could not have said that any better myself.We are in the generation of "pussies" now.
Land of freedom and taking others lives
It was never a land of freedom
My guys K/D must be off the charts
something like 2500000:0
Highest of all time potentially
He never lost a night of sleep even though he killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children that were just regular civilians. This is why I don’t observe Veteran’s day, you never know what kind of people you are really honoring on that day.
🤨
Agree
Why don’t you go to the front line and do the dirty works for them instead of saying beautiful words here. Someone made the wrong decisions, and someone else HAS to do the dirty work to fix them.
@@shawnking2816 I would never do the dirty deed of killing innocent people in another country and then come home and call myself a hero and say I did it for my country and for your freedom, that’s a load of BS. Keep your dirty patriotism.
@@shawnking2816 oh you mean the dirty work of going abroad to line up the pockets of corrupt politicians by hurting innocent people and stealing their resources in other countries and then pretending that I did it for your freedoms and be called a hero? No thanks.
It's easy to judge these acts now but if you look at the hellish situation people at war were in I can see why someone would be willing to do this if it meant an end to that
Yes, correct. 👍👍 It's so easy for some of these smug, self-righteous commentors to do the Monday morning quarterback routine, but it's a different story when you're in the thick of battle and hundreds of thousands of people are going to continue dying if the war isn't brought to a swift ending.
what hell? When japan was defeated at all fronts?
man nuance in life is such a critical lesson, i was going to come here and judge him for what he did, but as soon as he said the words "ill kill some but ill save many more" i understood. Empathy is critical for life on this planet.
"Some" is thousands of people.
You are sick.
From the way he speaks and how cold hearted he looks. I wonder how much lies they tell their soldiers to turn them to animals
폴 티베츠 훌륭한 장군 입니다.
his kda is actually insane
he was 3 years older than i am today. I can not imagine me releasing that bomb ever. I would rather go to jail for disobey than kill 100k innocent people.
He’s a real one
He believes what his goverment taught to believe.
so basically the bomb produces heat much hotter than the core of the sun. jeez can’t even imagine a full blown war involving these bombs
"I've never lost a night's sleep" 🥶
😐
What you need to remember/realize is that this was basically our only option. My great grandfather fought in the navy during world war 2. He told me Japan was ready to fight to their last man woman and child because they saw surrender as dishonorable and would rather fight and die. The war would of lasted YEARS more had we not made this decision.
Thats why he says he has no regret he knows how many millions more lives he saved. The needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few and its horrible that this had to happen but it did HAVE to happen its a canon event just accept it.
Exactly, it’s a terrible thing but it was also a necessary thing that needed to be done
@@Kōgan_Dekai it was a necessary thing, learn some history
That’s right! There is no innocent people in Japan. The whole nation was crazily supporting their military!
@@Kōgan_Dekai bruh, 1941 they were probably still making the bomb at best
Learn some history you absolute lobotomite
@@Kōgan_Dekai No, I am telling you the history. I am Chinese, you should learn more eastern history and know what Japan was.
It is pretty amazing how un emotional this man is!
What do you think war is? You do it or else they'll do it to you first. That's the way it's always been even on the grunt level. If you start caring and don't pull the trigger first the other guy will and you'll be dead. You can't win a war by dropping hugs and kisses now can you.
Maybe that's the reason he was chosen to lead the mission.
@@sleazyfellowget nuked idgaf
@@vivek06mediaI mean you gotta think what went through this guys head.
A country that would literally throw millions of its people to kill him and his compatriots. Willing to fight to the last man, woman, and child to protect their “god emperor” and would rather do suicidal attacks just to take out as many Americans as they could. And an invasion of the main island which would cost millions of lives on both sides which after the years of fighting everyone just wants it to end. And dropping those 2 bombs would force the people to submit and end the fighting and finally come home. Honestly I can’t blame him I would honestly do it to if I meant I could stop the war and save multimillions by killing hundreds of thousands.
@@sleazyfellow Either system chains, or you kill people instead for freedom from laws;) right. Don't tell me lalala, because that would be the duality of circumstance value.
This man was 86 during this interview. Man looked great
No regrets? How is hell grandpa? Is it hot down there?
howling day and night where he is now
@@soggybadronglenope
Who knows. Maybe we should ask the Japanese.
The japanese has no regrets either
lol
He kinda looks like Carl character in "Up" pixar movie. But its interesting that he fought for what he believed in and obviously did that to end the war. Compared to Oppenheimer who regretted being part of the nuclear development.
Oppenheimer had the luxury of regret. Folks like Tibbetts had to do the fighting and dying, they didn't have the time for hand wringing, they had to end the war before hundreds of thousands more would die.
@@kelleychilton2524So how do you know he even "FOUGHT" in the war?
Being a pilot is and has never been considered REAL FIGHTING even by today's US military standards.
He was just as cushy as Oppenheimer.
The only difference was the more evil part.
As a filipino I'm glad that the War ended that's all I'm saying. It's always the civilians who suffer the consequences of their Government. Japan have so many chancee to surrender but they didn't hence the Bombing happened. And the fact that the Bomb is meant to be used on Germans but ended up being used to Japanese. Imagine if Hitler haven't been defeated and they ended up bombing Germany.
His mental toughness is incomparable! He knows what exactly is the dilemma but rightfully fulfill what's best for humanity... That's why Elton John composed his song, "The Sacrifice"
But kidding aside, no humor when lives are lost, but it's a decision that is critical for the survival of more innocent lives...RIP to those who were sacrificed... Hope it won't happen again... Because for sure, more like this pilot won't hesitate again to fulfill his/her duty...
I suppose the title is a bit misleading "a difference without a distinction", or vice versa, is the term, I think. The bombardier dropped the bomb and Tibbets piloted the plane to the vicinity of the target, and there were secondary targets, but Hiroshima was the primary due to its war assets, including a garrison of soldiers and other facilities. The pilot lines up on the target and turns over control of the plane to the bombardier who drops the bomb, announces "bomb away", and then immediately returns control to the pilot so he can get the plane away from the tremendous blasts, in the case of the A-bombs, which could damage the plane and may bring it down at that time.
Actually, Nagasaki was a secondary target of another B-29, with another pilot and crew, due to the primary being too covered in a hazy smoke due to nearby recent conventional bombing at the time of the mission!! Many other vids on you tube give these details.
I suppose as for the "credit of who dropped the bombs" that would be Harry S. Truman, the Democrat president and Commander in Chief of all U.S. forces, at the time, who gave the order for the two A-bombing missions over Japan in 1945. And he also warned of others to follow if the Japanese Emperor did not surrender unconditionally, which he fortunately did.
*Democratic
Also, it is incorrect to write Harry S Truman's name as "Harry S. Truman," since the middle initial "S" does not stand for a particular name.
@@bobthebear1246 yes, true, he said that himself, also he is said to have said, "the buck stops with me", and, as CIC he took full responsibility for his wartime actions and orders, including incinerating 200,000 Japanese to end the war!!
@@bobthebear1246 Yes, and you are right about the Democratic party. And Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic party candidate and president number 7, he's on your 20-dollar bills. Like Truman, a pretty good president, for a democrat, LOL, who fought in the battle of New Orleans in 1814, I think, during the war of 1812, when the British invaded our young country.
Again, the damn wars already, sheesh!! ;D
he was in command of the mission and he gave the order. the bomb was ultimately dropped because he told a crewmember to drop it.
@@m444ss Yes, for all you civilians who never ever served your country in the military, that's commonly known to those of us who did, as "the chain of command". It goes downward, starting at the very top with the Commander in Chief, in this case an American democratic president named Harry Truman!! Tibbets could not have acted alone, without orders from his superiors, through that chain, as ignorantly implied here. LOL ;D
So, that's your "legacy", all you democrats today, history shows you can't hide from that fact. And I happen to agree with it. Your political party not only developed the atomic bomb under FDR, at Los Alamos, but then "dropped them" under Harry Truman's order. It came down through the chain of command, until it reached the bomber crew of the Enola Gay, who ultimately carried out an order, beginning with the U.S. president at that time.
It will be the very same if we bomb other attacking counties in WWIII. The president whomever it is, from whichever party, will have to give the order to retaliate, if he/she sees us under attack then.
In the case of WWII, the retaliation on Japan came many months, on August 8th, 1945, after Pearl Harbor, an American territory then, was attacked by them on December 7th, 1941.
Right wrong or indifferent, those are the historical facts, and always will be, unless democrats find a way to blame a Republican for it!! LOL ;D
Japan was warned, nothing to be ashamed off.
But the second one though?
@@lukeatbrandynightful yes, it took 2. They believed their emperor was a God. This was never going to end well.
@@Odog78 but maybe they could have waited before dropping the second