2:38:36
Surrender reached the Japanese
in a broadcast by Hirohito.
2:38:41
He said Japan will endure the
unendurable and suffer greatly.
2:38:47
The war minister and others
committed suicide outside the palace.
2:38:53
Japan is devastated,
destroyed in spirit...
2:38:58
...as Hiroshima and Nagasaki have
been destroyed.
2:39:01
More than 100,000 people
were killed in two...
2:39:06
...single-bomb explosions, which
ended the Pacific War.
2:39:10
The Russian declaration of war...
2:39:14
...has sent a million
soldiers into Manchuria.
2:39:18
Tokyo was hit with a dawn-to-dusk
raid by 1500 B-29 bombers.
2:39:24
But Japan's war was lost.
Her goal to create...
2:39:28
...a new empire incinerated
in a flash...
2:39:32
...hotter than the sun.
2:39:35
Everyone stands in awe of
the new super-weapon.
2:39:39
Only a few scientists knew the power
in splitting the uranium atom.
2:39:45
It reached us in a shock wave...
2:39:49
...and a white light: the atom bomb.
2:39:53
Each of the two bombs...
2:39:55
...had the power of
20,000 tons of explosives.
2:39:59
Nagasaki is
Japan's gateway to China...