This is identified as the site of the main Japanese military headquarters where some 20,000 men went "missing."
This was supposedly the site of a factory.
Flash burns on the chairs in the building just shown.
A building a mile and a half from the explosion.
The Commercial Museum, within .2 miles of the center of the explosion. The skeletal dome still stands today as a reminder.
4 miles from the blast.
They interview a man who was at the monastery above and witnessed the explosion and saw refugees and who believes that the idea that the ruins are emitting deadly rays to just be a rumor.
The bomb, according to the film, was dropped in a valley in order to destroy a couple of plants producing war materials and in order to shelter the surrounding civilians from the effects of the bomb.
The film refers to "shadow factories" set up in residential areas. Now, why was the bomb dropped in a valley in order to avoid killing civilians, yet at the same time the "shadow factories" were supposedly in the civilian areas? Was the bomb supposed to blow up the factories and leave the people alone? Oh, yes, this bomb was exploded high, also, in order to get rid of most of the radiation.
Where a person once stood there was now only a bright spot burned into the ground.
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