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HIROSHIMA / NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY
STORY: HIROSHIMA / NAGASAKI ANNIVERSARY
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SOURCES: CTBTO / FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: AUGUST 2013 / FILE: AUGUST 2012, NAGASAKI, JAPAN - AUGUST 1945/ARCHIVE
ARCHIVE - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM - AUGUST 1945, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
1. Med shot of airplane carrying atomic bomb in the air
2. Close up, the plane’s engine
3. Close up, airplane’s inside
4. Wide shot, Atomic explosion
5. Pan right, city of Hiroshima in ruins
6. Various shots, devastated city
FILE - AUGUST 2012, NAGASAKI, JAPAN
7. SOUNDBITES (Japanese) Sachiko Matsuo, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor:
“In the beginning we did not know what that light flash was that threw us back. But after knowing it was an atomic bomb, we really do not want it to be used another time, and so we wish for this weapon issue to be resolved as soon as possible. I guess that is not an easy task, so I believe that passing on our story is still necessary.”
ARCHIVE - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM - AUGUST 1945 NAGASAKI, JAPAN
8. Close up, Map of Nagasaki
9. Med shot, flying airplane carrying a nuclear bomb.
10. Various shots, panoramic view of atomic explosion from a plane.
CBTBO - AUGUST 2013 CTBTO, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
11. Wide shot, exterior view of the Vienna International Centre
12. Close up, front office entrance with CTBTO Logo
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO):
“The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a reminder of what horrors nuclear weapons can inflict. With nuclear testing, countries can develop even more powerful nuclear weapons. The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty makes it difficult for countries to proceed with such an endeavour. At the CTBTO, we stand ready to implement this Treaty.”
ARCHIVE - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM - AUGUST 1945 NAGASAKI, JAPAN
14. Various shots, devastated Nagasaki
Sixty-eight years ago nuclear bombs fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing untold death and destruction.
On 6 August 1945, at 08:15, the first bomb was dropped on the centre of Hiroshima. ‘Little Boy’ was a gun-type fission bomb, using a conventional explosive charge to fire one sub-critical mass of uranium into another. This kind of device had never been tested before, but the scientists were confident it would work.
And it did. The bomb had an explosive yield of around 13 kilotons. At the moment of detonation, a fireball was generated that raised temperatures to 4,000 degrees Celsius, turning Hiroshima – where many buildings were made of wood and paper - into an inferno.
The blast created shock waves faster than the speed of sound. This and the radiation immediately killed everything within one kilometre of the hypocentre.
Three days later, on the morning of 9 August, a second U.S. aircraft rose from the airbase at Tinian Island in the Pacific Ocean. The nuclear bomb it carried was code-named ‘Fat Man’. It was a more sophisticated plutonium-based implosion-type bomb which had been tested in the Trinity test. The primary target had been the city of Kokura. However due to a thick layer of clouds, the airplane’s crew reverted to the secondary target - Nagasaki.
Sachiko Matsuo was a 5th grade school girl, when the atomic bomb code named “FAT BOY” destroyed her home in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Her family was hiding in the hills on the cities outskirts, where they’d built a makeshift hut.
SOUNDBITES (Japanese) Sachiko Matsuo, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor:
“In the beginning we did not know what that light flash was that threw us back. But after knowing it was an atomic bomb, we really do not want it to be used another time, and so we wish for this weapon issue to be resolved as soon as possible. I guess that is not an easy task, so I believe that passing on our story is still necessary.”
The bomb in Nagasaki detonated at an altitude of approximately 500 metres and had a yield of 21 kilotons. Casualty estimates by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation for immediate deaths range from 60,000 to 80,000.
This week’s anniversary is a powerful reminder of the horrors of nuclear weapons.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lassina Zerbo Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO):
“The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a reminder of what horrors nuclear weapons can inflict. With nuclear testing, countries can develop even more powerful nuclear weapons. The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty makes it difficult for countries to proceed with such an endeavour. At the CTBTO, we stand ready to implement this Treaty.”
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