Pretty much everything about the Nagasaki bombing is wrong. In the film......the planes are coming in low enough to be clearly seen...it is sunny weather with few clouds...there is a panic, as if onlookers know what is about to happen...the bomb carries an audible whistle, and falls only for a few seconds...the explosion focal point is at ground level...the initial heat/light flash is rather harmless...the detonation is shown as a black smoke-ball...the sound is heard immediately on detonation...the shock-wave carries fire with it...whereas in reality: it was a cloudy day; the destruction of Hiroshima was not widely known, so there was no panic; the small number of planes was dismissed as a reconnaissance flight; they came in at high altitude, above 30 000 feet / 9000 meters; the bomb did not carry a whistle, and fell for nearly a minute; the explosion happened at 500 meters altitude; the initial flash would have instantly scorched and blinded Yashida severely; the explosion was silent until several seconds later at that distance; the initial fireball was larger, and was not black smoke; the sound from it took several seconds to reach that distance; the shock-wave would have come sooner to the camp; the shock-wave did not carry fire with it, certainly not to the point of creating a raging but short-lived fire storm.However(!) all of that is a dream, within a dream, in a universe slightly different from ours.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 09:38