Tour The Hiroshima Museum With Me (Sad Stories)
[Music] this is Hiroshima before the bombing Oh and by the way um the tickets are only 200 yen which is cheaper than any other museum or temple or shrine They’re usually anywhere from 300 to 1,000 yen So I feel like they’re definitely not trying to cut off And this is after So this museum is pretty close to where the bomb dropped and took out about 145,000 people Here you can see how it literally just ripped the roof and walls off all these buildings here The bomb didn’t actually drop like ground level It detonated um quite high in the sky [Music] I assume these are people who might have died from it like a schoolhouse and a teacher and they seem very happier There’s a ton of exhibits here of uh metal or stone items that got bent or altered from the impact of the bomb No no no no no So I just exited the Hiroshima Memorial Museum here in Hiroshima Japan And I do have some more to say I know I did a video already right after I uh was in the museum but I wanted to express some things I felt like I didn’t add or mention in that other video So uh first off I was surprised to discover that the victims did not just include Japanese but many other people of various countries who happen to be living there including US prisoners of war So a lot of prisoners of war were also killed by the bomb from the US Basically killing their own kind But there was also German priests There was uh Chinese Koreans Southeast Asian people all sorts of other people Uh by the way right now the museum’s right there Uh I just walked over here This is the fountain of peace This whole park and this whole island is now dedicated to this uh idea of peace and no nuclear war items Here is the fountain It’s very beautiful Uh I was checking this place out just a couple hours ago and it was filled with hundreds of young kids probably like elementary school level kids who are probably here on a field trip Here I am back at the monument for peace The inscription literally says it’s to pursue harmony and prosperity yearning for genuine lasting world peace and essentially to never repeat the evil of war here So lot to uncover I think the final part of the museum focused on the aftermath and how a lot of these world leaders are trying to never you know use nuclear weapons again but nuclear armament did proliferate and increase substantially during the cold war And now new countries are starting to come into it and the future’s uncertain as you know certain countries like Russia are withdrawing from uh certain treaties So it is quite thoughtprovoking They’re saying that the effects of a nuclear war uh would basically demolish all of humanity That’s not just an exaggeration uh the US had enough um nuclear weapons to clear the entire world of its population many times over and this was back in like the 60s and 50s and that number just skyrocketed as the cold war started Um so now we have this you know little fire burning for peace here the amount of nuclear missiles did drop after the cold war as uh they declared to disarm But uh yeah it’s uh really shocking I would say the uh there’s certainly like a little small undertone throughout the narration of the story in the museum that uh the the bomb was unnecessary that Japan was already on the brink of defeat that uh the US wanted to justify their spending um and so on and so forth Once again that is debatable but that’s what I noticed there And uh you really did see the shocking effects of this and it’s it’s really quite sad in a way um not just the personal accounts but also the uh just sheer numbers but then also the effects on the nature the animals and just knowing that this is just potentially just the start of something that could happen again Although there’s been efforts and treaties passed to try and uh stop this from happening again There’s also some things that raise some eyebrows There’s uh apparently um with hydrogen testing done by the US and USSR afterwards like way after this happened they apparently harmed a lot of towns living nearby So apparently tests done in Nevada as well as tests done on these islands near local Japan fishery towns uh caused very similar effects amongst a lot of the near nearby population Burns headaches vomiting cancer and so forth Um so I just found that surprising
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