Since then, historians at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum , which documents the destruction of the bomb, have been studying it frame by frame. It shows a landscape of total devastation. People are walking around among piles of rubble and trees stripped bare of their branches. Months later, Japan's Allied occupiers ordered the film confiscated, branding its images a military secret. Historians and curators at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum who saw the film knew they had stumbled upon a major find.
People now know what precisely happened and where.
The unedited footage just showed Hiroshima without any specification. We have come to confirm the things that actually happened at certain places. Lest anyone doubt the destruction caused by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima 51 years ago, the film provides proof of one of the darkest days in world history. Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.