In August 1945, the United States became the first, and to this day only, nation ever to employ nuclear weapons in war. After The fledgling technology proves itself on the testing ground, it is ready for immediate use. The price for this innovation is paid by hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians who are blinded, burned, crushed, irradiated, and finally burned in a humanitarian crisis never seen before and never since. Join us to hear the gut-wrenching accounts of survivors and understand the motivations behind this tragic outcome to ensure that the horrors of nuclear war are never forgotten and never again unleashed upon the world and its people.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński
Community Management: Jake McCluskey
Written by: Sebastian Brandstetter, Spartacus Olsson
Research by: Sebastian Brandstetter
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
Map research by: Sietse Kenter
Editing and color grading by: Iryna Dulka
Artwork by: Mikołaj Uchman
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Carlos Ortega Pereira, BlauColorizations, https://www.instagram.com/blaucolorizations/
Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Source literature list: https://bit.ly/SourcesWW2

Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com

Image sources:
Photographs courtesy of the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mitsuo Matsushige

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Secret Cargo - Craft Case
Past Deeds - Dream Cave
Sense of Betrayal - Experia
Blood Money STEMS INSTRUMENTS - Hampus Naeselius
A Slow Descent - Victor Lundberg
Grass on the Grave - Sage Oursler
Tvivel - Hanna Ekstrom
Trouble in The Air - Farrell Wooten
Photocells - Edward Karl Hanson
Rivers Run Red - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Night - Edward Karl Hanson
The Mole - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Barrel - Christian Andersen
Transfixed - August Wilhelmsson
Down the Alleyway - Damon Greene
Farewell Parade - DEX 1200
Predisposed - Dream Cave
Live, Fight, Survive - Anthony Earls
Firebreak - Edward Karl Hanson
They Are Coming STEMS INSTRUMENTS - Hampus Naeselius

A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.